Dakota Johnson has opened up about her family’s feelings when first watching HBO’s The Girl.
21.06.2022 - 20:57 / thewrap.com
“Cha Cha Real Smooth” – inspired by something his mom once told him about how raising his disabled sister had shaped her life – was strong enough for him to bluff his way through.“I think I do the best work when I’m just entirely focused on writing one thing and telling people, ‘I can’t talk for two weeks because Dakota Johnson thinks I have a script I don’t have,’” Raiff joked in an interview with TheWrap.In “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” which takes its name from the classic b’nei mitzvah bop, Andrew (Raiff) finds a kindred spirit in an outcast mom named Domino (Johnson) and her autistic daughter, Lola (Vanessa Burghardt). As one party blurs into the next, they develop a unique connection: that of two people standing together at different crossroads in their lives.As a filmmaker, Raiff is not only unafraid of the awkward transitions between major life changes – he’s drawn to them.
His first film, “Shithouse,” was about a freshman who struggles with moving away from home and finding his place in college.“I think it’s always those transitional moments, [those] conflicts that tell you a lot about people and about what they’ve been going through,” said the writer-director-actor. “Also, I’m just really interested in making a movie about a time in my life that I haven’t shed yet.”Indeed, the now-25-year-old was a sophomore in college when he tweeted the indie filmmaker Jay Duplass, daring him to watch his DIY project that became the basis for “Shithouse.” After Raiff dropped out of college to make the film, it went on to premiere at South By Southwest, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and was acquired by IFC.“Cha Cha Real Smooth” debuted on an even bigger stage, nabbing the Audience Award at January’s Sundance Film Festival.
Dakota Johnson has opened up about her family’s feelings when first watching HBO’s The Girl.
Dakota Johnson comes from one of the most important in entertainment. The actress is the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, two of the greatest actors of their time. Griffith is also the daughter of Tippi Hedren, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s muses and an icon of the era.
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“Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy opposite Jamie Dornan.She revealed in a new cover story for Vanity Fair that she “signed up to do a very different version of the film we ended up making.”“I’m a sexual person, and when I’m interested in something, I want to know so much about it,” she said. “That’s why I did those big naked movies.”But Johnson suggested that the studio, the director and even the author of the original books, E.L.
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after college. Raiff sticks to the feel-good coming-of-age genre in this Sundance success. “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, earning the festival’s Audience Award.
Mubi Go, which has helped buoy NYC’s arthouse market by offering members a free movie ticket a week at participating theaters, expands to LA today where the biz could really use a boost. The films are curated and the first is Apple’s Cha Cha Real Smooth.
Cha Cha Real Smooth). (On that last part, “In the ‘Cha Cha Slide,’ there's one part where you cha-cha real smooth and that's the part of the song where you get to do your own little boogie and that's what this movie is about,” producer and costar Dakota Johnson .
Shithouse (2020), his debut feature, Raiff portrayed a friendless college freshman who, upon being seduced by his RA, is more interested in helping her give a proper burial to her deceased turtle than in getting laid.Turns out niceness sells. Few young filmmakers have enjoyed a more sudden rise to prominence this decade.
picked up at Sundance by AppleTV+ for $15 million in January, and like 2020’s big Sundance seller “Palm Springs,” everybody will be watching — and adoring — it. The film is available to stream on June 17. Raiff plays Andrew, a 22-year-old recent college grad who lives with his mom (Leslie Mann) and stepdad (Brad Garrett) and still shares a bedroom with his little brother David (Evan Assante).
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