Dakota Johnson wants to play a psychopath: 'I'm open to anything'

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Jon Kopaloff/Getty Dakota Johnsonhas played a hippie, a witch, and a blind, clairvoyant mutant — now it's time for blood. The American film star, 35, is currently enjoying some of the best reviews of her career for her performance inCeline Song's romantic dramedyMaterialistsand will soon appear in Michael Angelo Covino's Cannes-hyped physical comedySplitsville. Comedy? Conquered. Drama? She's done it. Romance? Second nature at this point. What's next? During a weekend appearance, Johnson said she's eager to play a "psychopath,"Varietyreported. She'd also "love to do an action film." "I'm open to anything. Certain things [just have] to align," she told press while attending the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, where she received the distinguished President's Award. Johnson is the daughter of actorsMelanie GriffithandDon Johnson, both of whom played roles over the course of their varied careers that could be construed as in the psychopathic vein. Griffith played notoriously unhinged characters inBrian De Palma'sBody DoubleandJonathan Demme'sSomething Wild, and Johnson played a vengeful menace in the 1993 thrillerGuilty as Sinand a diabolical vigilante inRobert Rodriguez'sMachete.Johnson's grandmother,Tippi Hedren, starred in two films by one of the most astute chroniclers of psychopathic behavior in American cinema:Alfred Hitchcock. Hedren headlined bothThe Birdsin 1963 andMarniein 1964. Want more movie news? Sign up forEntertainment Weekly's free newsletterto get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. Dakota has displayed remarkable versatility over the course of her career, but a true, out-and-out villain role has so far eluded her. Ironically, Johnson's career began with the filmCrazy in Alabama, which co-starred Griffith, but the closest the actress may have come to playing a psychopath is her role as Susie Bannion inLuca Guadagnino's remake of the horror classicSuspiria. In the film, Johnson's young dancer, freshly enrolled at the mysterious Markos Dance Academy in pre-reunification West Berlin, descends deeper into a web of conspiracy, witchcraft, and murder — and learns to love it. Now a certified A-lister who is "in the position of being a producer and developing my own films," and can "choose all the people who are in it," Johnson's free to take her time selecting the perfect psychopath role. But first, viewers will get to see her in the second big-screen attempt to adapt a book by ultra-bestseller Colleen Hoover. The psychological thriller-romancehybridVeritywill co-starAnne HathawayandJosh Hartnett, is helmed bySearch Partyco-creator Michael Showalter, and is set to premiere next summer. Read the original article onEntertainment Weekly

 

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