Dakota Johnson

Netflix's attempt to modernize the classic novel has led to a disaster of anachronistic dialogue and annoyingly wry glances at the camera.

As soon as Fleabag reached full cultural capacity, every single new show that happened to have a woman in it was branded ‘The new Fleabag’. Back to Life, Run, Mood, I May Destroy You, This Way Up, The Duchess, Everything I Know About Love, Out of Her Mind – all these shows (and plenty of others, including the French remake Mouche) have been tagged with the same lazy label. A bold new voice enters the arena, and then everyone in the world rips it off for years and years afterwards. The closest equivalent I can think of is J Robert Oppenheimer, whose impressive work in the field of fast neutron calculation led directly to the creation of the atomic bomb. It’s the sort of inelegant modernisation that allows one character to describe herself as an empath, and its comedic ambition peaks during a scene where Johnson says with a sigh, “There’s nothing worse than thinking your life is ruined, and then realising you’ve got much further to fall,” before immediately literally falling on her face. Of all the adaptations that Jane Austen’s novel has suffered, this is by far the most ostentatiously Fleabaggy. It isn’t just that Dakota Johnson’s Anne Elliott talks to camera, or even that she seems pathologically inclined to glance at us whenever anything happens whatsoever. Hopefully it isn’t too late to stop her, because the sweeping wave of full-body horror that will overcome her within seconds of pressing play is bound to hurt.

Perhaps Johnson would have been the wrong actor for the movie that Jane Austen purists wanted—one that honors Anne Elliot as the somber, melancholy lead that ...

There is no denying that the 2022 Persuasion is not the adaptation that Austen fans—or, frankly, anyone—wanted. But it’s not because Johnson was bad at her job. Johnson’s always excelled at a certain brand of charming, self-deprecating comedy—a fact we’ve known ever since The Social Network when she half-heartedly insisted to Justin Timberlake that she could have died getting twisted in the shower curtain—and she’s using all of her powers here in an attempt to make this misguided adaptation work. I’m not disputing this point, which has already been made by many a critic according to the 32 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes is anything to go by, as well as by Decider’s resident Jane Austen fan Meghan O’Keefe in a thoughtful essay.

Netflix's new adaptation of Persuasion stars 50 Shades of Grey's Dakota Johnson as a messy millennial who swigs wine from the bottle, while lusting after ...

For me, that's one of the most powerful reasons to cast in this way. Captain Wentworth tells Anne, "I have lived with a thousand different imagined versions of you over the years," and it's heart-wrenching because it finally shows something Anne has long insisted – Wentworth knows and understands her. There's hardly time to fret that the romance between Anne and Captain Wentworth may never work out; as Johnson's Anne tells us at almost every turn, "hope springs eternal". She's delighted by her own wit and utterly unconcerned for her future, despite being an aging spinster in a family that is haemorrhaging funds. Rather than a romantic comedy of manners, it has the sorrowfully tender tone of a woman looking back on her life and imagining the happy finale she had not experienced herself. First published in 1817, it was the last novel she wrote and was completed while she was dying.

Walking was a key part of Dakota Johnson's diligent workout routine while she was working on “Persuasion.”

(“No matter how long her days were, we would get the workout done,” he says. During the last portion of the workout, Johnson and Worthington focused specifically on the areas she wanted to work on, which were usually glutes and abs. For that, Worthington set a schedule of workouts—80 minutes, four times a week (on average) at Marylebone’s AMP Athletic—that “had a strength basis,” he explains.

From her relationship with Chris Martin and her famous parents to her viral Ellen interview, find out all about Persuasion star Dakota Johnson's life away ...

For somebody like me, who isn’t yet a mother and maybe doesn’t want to be a mother, it makes that OK. Complicated, but OK." But in my mind, I’m like, Well, I’ll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is." Ellen tried to keep it light and replied: "Well, who doesn't want to be invited to a party?" Dakota's rocky upbringing - both Melanie and Don battled addiction - didn't derail her path to stardom. I got a bonus dad, who I realized that, over time, is actually one of the most influential people in my whole life." What was supposed to be a lighthearted chat turned into something very different when Dakota appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show back in November 2019.

Persuasion movie review: Dakota Johnson is having a most memorable hot-streak, even though Netflix's Jane Austen adaptation is the weakest of her recent ...

As with her last two films — The Lost Daughter and Cha Cha Real Smooth — she is the standout performer among a truly talented pool of actors. There is, however, a nagging sense of frustration at why Cracknell and her writers — Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow — were so hesitant about revamping characters in a more significant manner, when they appear to have shown zero hesitation in rewriting what those characters are saying. The gimmick here, of course, is that director Carrie Cracknell has infused in Austen’s mannered story a contemporary edge. Sometimes, she sneaks in glances at the camera that are virtually indiscernible. The dialogue, at least at first glance, sounds archaic, but there’s something about the delivery that makes you lean in for a closer listen. But now, she lives with her status-obsessed father and spends most of her time wondering how she could have been so stupid.

The cast also includes Sydney Sweeney, Emma Roberts, Isabela Merced, Tahar Rahim, and Celeste O'Connor.

There is speculation that Merced’s character is Anya Corazon, the hero known as Araña, and that the film will be a Spider-Women team-up. Starring Dakota Johnson ( Persuasion), the cast also includes Sydney Sweeney (The White Lotus), Emma Roberts (American Horror Story), Isabela Merced (Dora The Explorer), Tahar Rahim (A Prophet), and Celeste O’Connor ( Ghostbusters: Afterlife). Apart from Johnson playing the title character, details on the project have been kept under wraps.

The upcoming Sony Pictures adaptation of the Marvel character Madame Web is in early development. Dakota Johnson leads the cast with Adam Scott, ...

Adam Scott, with a shiny new Emmy nomination in tow, is reportedly also joining the cast, according to Deadline, though Sony has yet to comment on his potential casting. What we do know is the setting. In 2019, Marvel wrote a handy-dandy article titled “Caught in Spidey’s Web: 5 Things to Know About Madame Web,” where the company tells the un-indoctrinated about the superperson. No, we don’t! What we do know is there will be no Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-ins for Madame Web for now, Collider reports. Madame Web is a supporting character in the Spider-Man comics. Today’s IP in question is Madame Web, a movie about the titular character who appears in the Spider-Man comics.

Scott boards the Spider-Man spinoff that already cast Emma Roberts and Sydney Sweeney.

Madame Web is one of a number of projects in development as the studio builds out its Sony Universe of Marvel characters. Madame Web is part of Sony’s growing stable of films based on Marvel characters. Scott recently starred in Dan Erickson’s absurdist sci-fi dramedy Severance for AppleTV+, appearing alongside John Turturro, Patricia Arquette and Christopher Walken.

Stage director Carrie Cracknell has a clear (if clearly derivative) vision in mind for this update of "Persuasion," starring Dakota Johnson.

Some years ago, Wentworth — “a sailor without rank or fortune,” played by ruggedly handsome Cosmo Jarvis (“Lady Macbeth”) — proposed to Anne, and she accepted, but her aristocratic family disapproved of the union, and she was persuaded to break the engagement. For Cracknell’s purposes, the trouble is that neither character is sure the other still feels the love they once shared, and so we wait the requisite 100 minutes for them to profess their feelings and get on with the wedding that neatly ties up all of Austen’s books. And yet, despite this overtly disobedient streak, she’s corseted by all the old-timey social conventions at play, which include sitting idly by while 19-year-old sister-in-law Louisa (Nia Towle) openly flirts with Wentworth, and entertaining a rival proposal from distant relative William Elliot ( Henry Golding). The Anne we meet in this movie wouldn’t hold her tongue while such things happened. Anne’s unashamedly conceited father, Sir Walter (Richard E. Grant, a vainglorious hoot), must rent the family estate, Kellynch Hall, reintroducing the man for whom Anne’s heart still throbs to their circle — only now, Wentworth is an officer of sufficient fortune to merit her hand. Flash forward to the present (Austen’s present, that is, of 1816), and the situation is changing. Two centuries later, the world is still struggling to even that balance, and no studio seems more committed than Netflix to giving women a chance to control their narrative.

Take a closer look at the Regency-era costumes in Netflix's new Jane Austen adaptation, out now, that were inspired by unlikely style stars.

Anne is quite a complex character and after I read the script, I read quite a bit of Patti Smith and thought about that look. Epitomizing the modern woman, Anne’s wardrobe is met with a touch of the contemporary, with loose-fitting silhouettes and mucked up boots, her costumes reflect a rugged and rebellious heroine. Costume designer Marianne Agertoft dressed the classic characters in styles expected of the time period: empire waist silhouettes, puff sleeves, and bonnets embellished with opulent plumage.

Adam Scott is the latest star to jump on board Sony's Madame Web,, joining Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney.

Though it became the source of endless memes online after its initial theater run, a re-release to capitalize on the film's infamy proved fruitless for Sony. Along with Madame Web, the studio is also working on an El Muerto movie starring Bad Bunny, and will see its animated sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse swing into theaters On June 2, 2023. No further details have been revealed about Scott's role, which is not dissimilar from the rest of the movie, which still remains shrouded in mystery. All that is confirmed about it so far is the growing cast list, as well as the fact that it will be directed by S.J. Clarkson (who previously directed episodes of both Jessica Jones and The Defenders) and written by Morbius scribes Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. Johnson will lead the film, but no other information about the nature of her role or anyone else's has been made available.

A guide to the many names and faces in the Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen's "Persuasion," starring Dakota Johnson and Cosmo Jarvis.

Afolabi Alli will next be seen in “Game of Thrones” spinoff series “House of the Dragon.” Captain Harville is a good friend of Captain Wentworth’s from the navy. Admiral Croft is a naval officer who rents Kellynch Hall from Sir Walter Elliot when his debts catch up to him. Charles’ other sister is Henrietta. Like Louisa, she’s lively, happy and loves a good piece of gossip as much as anyone. Louisa is Charles’ younger sister and a dear companion to Anne. She encourages Anne to pursue Wentworth once he’s back in the picture, before setting her own sights on him. Anne’s younger sister is just as proud as her oldest sister and father, but with a dramatic flair of the hypochondriac variety. Elizabeth (right) is the eldest of the Elliot sisters. Henry Golding of “Crazy Rich Asians” fame plays Mr. Elliot, Anne’s dashing cousin and Sir Walter’s heir. Netflix Netflix Netflix Austen purists will be relieved that most of the original characters (minus Mrs. Smith) remain intact – meaning that there are quite a few names and relations to keep straight.

The new adaptation of the Jane Austen classic, starring Dakota Johnson, swings wildly from dour to dull.

We’re exes.” Then the camera pulls back to let you survey the result, as if this film has done you the service of making Persuasion make sense in the 21st century, in the same way that Clueless made Emma make sense in the 20th century. In Netflix’s Persuasion, Anne takes on the mannerisms of the heroine of a mid-tier ’90s rom-com, weeping in the bathtub, weeping into copious amounts of red wine, weeping as she pratfalls into accidentally pouring gravy over her head. As played by Cosmo Jarvis, Wentworth is shy, brooding, and vague; a Darcy cyborg without the specificity. Austen’s Anne reacts to these circumstances the way she reacts to most things: outwardly remaining as calm and composed as possible, while inwardly tortured. The film picks up briefly when Henry Golding arrives to play Mr. Elliot, Anne’s cousin and Wentworth’s rival for her heart. Anne has never gotten over Wentworth, but she’s now a spinster, resigned to devoting her life to caring for her sisters and her sister’s children. He’s now wealthy and respectable, in search of a wife of his own, and still furious with Anne for ending their relationship the way she did. Instead, she winks at the camera with her best Jim-from-The Office smirk, as if to say, “Aren’t we all in agreement that this is charming?” We aren’t. Unforgivably, it makes a mess of one of Austen’s most romantic moments, undercutting the iconic letter-writing scene until it’s lost all internal logic and, with it, all emotional power. While it aims for the candy-coated Regency pastiche that Bridgerton made fashionable, it’s too stolidly convinced of its own virtues to revel in the sudsiness that renders Bridgerton so satisfying. Anne Elliot — rich, pretty, and charming — was once madly in love with the penniless young sailor Frederick Wentworth. They were engaged to be married. As an imitation of Netflix’s hit Bridgerton, Persuasion is a pale copy.

Dakota Johnson's enigmatic quality is her greatest strength as an actress; "Persuasion" and the recent "Cha Cha Real Smooth" fail to lean into it.

There isn’t much humor to “The Lost Daughter” — perhaps only the sort eliciting a bitter chuckle — but the film stands as proof of Johnson’s versatility. The age difference between Domino and Andrew is far from egregious, but it contributes to a gap in maturity. The film’s also-vacationing protagonist, a divorced professor named Leda (Olivia Colman), is reminded of her own struggles as a young mother while observing Nina. The women form an unusual bond over this connection. This enigmatic quality helped Johnson avoid being pigeonholed after her breakout role in “ Fifty Shades of Grey.” Filmmakers from Luca Guadagnino to Maggie Gyllenhaal have cast Johnson in projects that, in theory, ask her to suggest hidden depths that reveal themselves over the course of the films. Johnson leads “Persuasion,” the new Jane Austen adaptation widely seen as veering into “ Fleabag” territory. Does she mean what she says, or is she masking the truth?

I die! 10 Things I Hate About You? Wish it was eleven or twelve things! When it comes to Dakota Johnson's new take on Jane Austen's final novel Persuasion for ...

In an effort to do so, please find all the thoughts I had while watching Persuasion below, in chronological order. - Ooh, another new guy on the scene. She’s The Man? I die! When it comes to Dakota Johnson’s new take on Jane Austen’s final novel Persuasion for Netflix, though, I have yet to make up my mind. - Ooh, new guy on the scene. It's no secret that I live for a modern adaptation of a classic.

Check out what Twitter has to say about Netflix's Persuasion as well as Dakota Johnson's performance in it.

Netflix’s Persuasion might not be the greatest adaptation of all time but, fans are loving Dakota Johnson’s Fleabag-like take on Jane Austen’s finest heroines. Have you watched the film yet? She definitely is becoming a force to be reckoned with!”. Another Twitter user tweeted: “Dakota is a joy and I instantly love anything I see her in.

Dakota Johnson stars as Anne Elliot in the new Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen's “Persuasion.” Anne is 27, unmarried and on the verge of spinsterhood ...

Dakota Johnson stars as Anne Elliot in "Persuasion," based on a novel by Jane Austen. NICK WALL/NETFLIX. A version of this story appeared ...

We all go through some variation of the same pain and joy at some point in our lives, and there's a commonality to that. We always aspired to have longevity." "The way that I process things is through writing music. "I hope that, 55 years from now, listeners will actually feel something about our music and our lyrics," founding member Robert Lamm said in a release for the new album. Still, with so many Austen adaptations to choose from, I have occasionally found myself entertained. Bonus: "Crazy Rich Asians" star Henry Golding also costars.

Johnson shines as Anne Elliot with her subtle, jovial, and immensely expressive portrayal of an Austen heroine.

It is not her fault, whatever character she was to play, problem is that is NOT Anne Elliot. Anne is my fav Austen heroine and that is not how she was written at all," the tweet read. She was a really good Anne Elliot. I wasn’t over the moon about Captain Wentworth, but he was effective," said a fan on Twitter. Another fan appreciated Johnson's acting but said that her character in the film did not match the Anne Elliot from the book. Another follower wrote, "#Persuasion follows pretty much every possible, predictable narrative path a film could follow, but Dakota Johnson's FABULOUS performance and a few surprisingly humorous interactions actually make it a decent watch. She just gives the role of Anne, so much LIFE, so much brightness, so much love.— KT (@girlfromaspen) #Persuasion @netflix pic.twitter.com/N68o9FWOkf July 15, 2022 But this movie, is just "IT". She made me fall in love with Anne Elliot, made me appreciate this story even more. She just gives the role of Anne, so much LIFE, so much brightness, so much love."

Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin have been together for a while. Find out the rest of her dating history and about her friendship with Johnny Depp.

Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson are still together! Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't like Dakota Johnson—she loves her! Whether that changes in the future is no one's business but hers and her potential baby daddy's! Dakota Johnson played Johnny Depp's baby momma in Black Mass, but it's unclear if they have any sort of friendship now that the movie is long behind them. Dakota Johnson and Jordan Masterson dated for about two years. Chris Martin of Coldplay was previously married to Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow. The pair, who share daughter Apple and son Moses, " consciously uncoupled" in March 2014 after more than 10 years together.