THE LOST DAUGHTER - INTERVIEWS WITH DAKOTA JOHNSON, JESSIE BUCKLEY, OLIVIA COLMAN AND MORE!

Buckle up for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter, based on the best selling novel by Elena Ferrante.

The best selling novel has struck a chord with readers worldwide and there is no doubt that the movie will make a huge impact as well.

Meet Leda, played by Olivia Colman, one of the most unsympathetic characters on earth! Leda’s a British woman on vacation in Greece, alone. She shares the beach with a loud, obnoxious family from New York who seem to be infringing on Leda’s territory, disturbing d her solitude shouting and swearing.

Maggie Gyllenhaal on set for her directorial debut

A member of the family asks for her beach umbrella and she selfishly refuses to relinquish it. She’s watching Nina (Dakota Johnson) part of the Queens crew and her toddler daughter. The little girl acts out, hitting, crying and pouring water on her sun-baked mother, who takes it.

Leda is instantly hit with memories of raising her two daughters, the joy and the annoyance, leaving them for stretches to work, making clear her frustration with them.

Now a grown woman, those feelings of anger rise up and she acts out against Nina’s child in a way that most will find disturbing.

Gyllenhaal was not only taken with this story as a filmmaker but first and foremost as a daughter, a wife and a mother of two children.

I spoke with Maggie Gyllenhaal and the entire cast including, Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard and Paul Mescal about working on the film.

The Lost Daughter is all set to arrive in the theaters on December 17, 2021 and will be made available for streaming on Netflix from December 31, 2021.