Dakota Johnson discusses her directorial debut short film Loser Baby.
The Big Picture At this year's Toronto International Film Festival, actress, producer, and now director Dakota Johnson presented her short film Loser Baby with writer, star, and good friend Talia Bernstein. Johnson took her experience on the sets of other directors' films —"all different kinds of direction and methods of direction" — and applied it to her own, where she and Bernstein worked with all of their best friends on a short film she never intended to premiere at TIFF.
That's exactly what I wanted to know. Everyone felt so comfortable together. How was it with casting? Everyone in frame, are they all people that you're best friends with? JOHNSON: Yes, and my little sisters are in the background. Some people who work in our office are in the background at the party. It was a family affair, for sure. And because Blake , who plays Devon, and Talia are best friends, we're all best friends, they really do have that kind of banter.
JOHNSON: But we didn't have time to do blocking and proper rehearsals or anything. It was all really free, a lot of improvising. The DP that I work with, Cristina Dunlap, and I have worked together multiple times and have a really shorthand communication, so it flowed really well. A lot of people did us favors because they thought the script was great. So, it was good.
JOHNSON: Well, I actually felt like I just didn't want anybody else to be directing these people doing this thing. I was like,"I know this so well. I know them so well. I love them with all my heart." I didn't plan any of it. Also, Ro submitted to Toronto, and we didn't know.JOHNSON: We didn't know. We just made this short to make a short — for fun. I love directing, and I love making things. I love editing, I love music, I love the whole process.
BERNSTEIN: It’s really so wild. Dakota and Ro were both like,"If we make this, you have to be in it." And I was like,"Okay, are we sure?" I think you were even like,"I’m not going to direct it if you’re not in it," or I made that up.BERNSTEIN: But it was wild. I wrote it, obviously, very specifically for me. I don’t think I’ve got the range to go other places, but I loved it. It was so fun. It was very wild. I think the wildest part is people seeing it after.
Is Dakota Johnson Directing Again Soon? I definitely want to know if, after this, you’ve gotten a taste for the director’s chair and if you’re reading other scripts, if you’re thinking about doing a feature. What are your plans as a director? Where You've Seen Talia Bernstein's Other Work Before I read that you’ve written episodes of Ghosts and also worked on How I Met Your Mother early in your career. I loved that show. What was that experience like for you? What did you learn from it that you took with you to working on Ghosts and other projects?
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