Skrivet 9 Feb 2015

The subtle grayscale of Persona

We don't know if we should be proud or upset about this:

For the Fifty Shades audition, Dakota was given a monologue from Persona, Ingmar Bergman’s intense 1966 psychological drama. “She blew us out of the water,” Taylor-Johnson remembers. 'She understood the nuance of that passage and how to play something delicately. Dakota has the ability to play so fragile and vulnerable, but with this underlying strength that makes you feel she is going to triumph.'

Oh, well. Sending a royalty invoice, we're hoping Dakota Johnson's apparent talent will do justice to the 'nuance', 'fragility' and "vulnerability' of the novel (which, according to Salman Rushdie, makes Twilight look like War and Peace).

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