The Lost Daughter filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal and actress Dakota Johnson were attracted to the hard, often unattractive truths — particularly about motherhood — that too often go unexplored in cultural conversation that the film explores.“Elena Ferrante, who wrote the book that the film is based on, she really in all of her novels is telling the truth about things that I think for a really long time we’ve agreed not to talk about,” Gyllenhaal, who made her directorial debut on the film and also adapted the screenplay from Ferrante’s novel, told Deadline’s Contenders New York on Saturday.
She shared the stage with Johnson, co-star (and Gyllenhaal’s spouse) Peter Sarsgaard and editor Affonso Gonçalves.“There’s something inherently dramatic
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