Now that Dakota Johnson has completed taking pictures her upcoming Sony Marvel flick, Madame Internet, she has extra time for different issues, like say, supporting her pal and frequent collaborator Luca Guadagnino on the 2023 Sundance Movie Competition. On Thursday, the actress stepped out to current the director with the Competition’s Worldwide Icon Award on opening evening and, after all, she did so in type.
Johnson pivoted away from her traditional Gucci for the night, opting as an alternative to decorate in head to toe denim, courtesy of Magda Butrym. To name her look a Canadian tuxedo wouldn’t even do it justice, as a result of this look wasn’t comprised of two denim items, however three. The actress wore a pair of dishevelled, pleated denims with an identical denim corset on high. She then completed off the ensemble with a double-breasted denim trench in the identical darkish wash. Easy black pointed-toe heels and a Jessica McCormack diamond necklace accomplished the ensemble, but all of it makes for a barely eccentric look. Johnson posed on the pink carpet alongside Guadagnino, who additionally traded in his signature designer for one thing new, opting to put on Prada as an alternative of his traditional Loewe.
Later within the night, Johnson ditched her overcoat when she took the stage to current Guadagnino with the award. It was there that she allowed her biting humor to come back out to play. Johnson, who labored with the director on his movies A Greater Splash and Suspiria, reminisced on one in every of Guadagnino’s different previous tasks, which initially premiered at Sundance. “It was right here at Sundance in 2017 that audiences skilled a movie that’s uniquely characterised by Luca’s iconic strategy to storytelling,” she mentioned. “The imaginative and prescient and the type that’s Name Me By Your Title. Sadly, I wasn’t in that one.” Johnson went on to say that Guadagnino had requested her to play the position of the peach within the movie, however her schedule wouldn’t permit it. “Thank God, although,” the actress continued. “As a result of then I might’ve been one other lady that Armie Hammer tried to eat.”
Johnson was referencing the scene within the movie when Timothée Chalamet’s Elio ejaculates on a peach earlier than Hammer’s character Oliver finds it and tries to eat it. The actress was additionally making mild of the controversy surrounding Hammer, which included alleged DMs to girls like one the place he claimed he’s “100% a cannibal.”
“It’s been 5 years since that movie premiered right here, and Luca hasn’t stopped taking us to thrilling locations,” Johnson continued. “Who knew cannibalism was so well-liked?” In fact, Guadagnino’s present movie, Bones and All covers the controversial matter as properly, telling the story of two younger folks falling in love whereas additionally coping with their cannibalistic tendencies. Earlier on within the movie’s promotional cycle, Guadagnino commented on the connection between Hammer and his new movie’s topic. The allegations in opposition to Hammer first got here out throughout the identical month by which Bones and All was initially introduced, and Guadagnino was stunned by the general public’s conflation of the 2.
“It didn’t daybreak on me,” he mentioned of the connection. “I spotted this afterward after I began to be advised of a few of these innuendos on social media.” He defined that the movie is predicated off a ebook printed in 2015. “Any hyperlink with anything exists solely within the realm of social media, with which I don’t have interaction. The connection between this type of digital muckraking and our want to make this film is nonexistent and it needs to be met with a shrug. I would like to speak about what the movie has to say, somewhat than issues that don’t have anything to do with it.” Possibly, he ought to have advised that to Johnson.