With her knowing smile and perfect bangs, the 32-year-old has enthralled Jamie Dornan’s Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades franchise, charmed critics in A Bigger Splash, proved to be a magnetic everywoman in How To Be Single, and won hearts in The Peanut Butter Falcon.
The final product is a sensitive study of disappointment, ambition, and maternal ambivalence, and it’s impossible to take your eyes off both the impulsive Colman and the enigmatic Johnson.
It’s a wild uniform and it’s this picture of her that maybe she painted for herself and now she’s stuck in it, or maybe it’s been painted for her because of what she looks like.
I’m privileged to do this as my job, but then to film a movie in Greece during a pandemic when people were locked in their apartments and dreaming of a beach? It was truly a gift and that was not lost on any of us.
I was like, “I’m going to get this kid bags of candy.” She took it but she wasn’t impressed .
We didn’t really have any deep conversations about the relationship between Nina and Leda, and we still haven’t.
A super fan! On the first day of filming, Paul and I had an intense scene.
Nina is drowning in herself and when she meets Leda, she thinks, “Is there something more for me? Could my mind be less hungry? Could I be satiated?” The most heartbreaking thing is that she probably won’t ever be and that’s true of so many women.
There’s still this stigma around some women not wanting to be mothers and I just think, why? Maybe this is a little shove towards de-stigmatizing those complicated feelings around womanhood and motherhood.
Doing a Jane Austen film is the dream, and there are only a few of them so I feel incredibly lucky.
I believe in people, in kindness and our ability to evolve, and I understand that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better, but it’s tough.
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