The Lost Daughter stars Dakota Johnson and Jessie Buckley have spotlighted the “raw and unnerving honesty” of Maggie Gyleenhall’s upcoming Elena Ferrante adaptation, her directorial debut.The pair of A-listers feature alongside Olivia Colman in the Netflix film and they heaped praise on the atmosphere created by Gyllenhaal at today’s Deadline Contenders London.“Often as a female actor you are trying to be ‘something’, something enticing, attractive or sexy or whatever – it can be boring,” said Johnson.“But this was really raw, open and messy.
It felt so human, like the truth of being a human woman.”Buckley described the film as “unnervingly raw and honest”, adding: “I haven’t seen a film or read a script before which expresses the truth of
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