Christy Hall Shares How Dakota Johnson Helped Snag Sean Penn for Her Filmmaking Debut ‘Daddio’
variety.comJenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor Christy Hall was a playwright living in New York City — which means she had several side jobs, including walking dogs and bartending. “There’s a great quote saying, ‘you can make a killing in theater, but you can’t make a living,’” she notes.
She had always dreamed of working in film and television, but it never felt completely realistic to her.Today, Hall is the writer-director of “Daddio,” an acclaimed two-hander starring Sean Penn as a taxi driver named Clark and Dakota Johnson as his passenger, known only as Girlie.
The film is both a love letter to New York and a reminder of the importance of human connection set almost entirely inside a cab ride from JFK Airport to Manhattan.
The two strangers reveal secrets, offer encouragement and display both humor and vulnerability over the course of the film, which was shot in just 16 days.
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