


I’m not going to leave my kids, but no parent has not thought of just walking out that f***ing door.' Maggie Gyllenhaal, who directed and co-wrote The Lost Daughter, which also stars The Crown's Oscar and Emmy-winning Olivia Colman, said of Colman's character Leda: 'I had all these things on my mind, but didn’t see them represented anywhere.

She also said: 'I hadn’t ever read women written like that,' which she thought upon reading the script. The actor, whose breakthrough role as the vulnerable Anastasia "Ana" Steele in provocative romantic drama Fifty Shades of Grey, alongside Jamie Dornan, catapulted her to star status, has acknowledged that she wasn't the obvious choice for the role of Nina in The Lost Daughter. And there’s a stigma around having just the thought of, ‘What if I walked out that f*cking door? For a week or a minute for a cigarette.’ But you’re not supposed to say that out loud. I am not a mother, but I know what it feels like to be scared or to be like, "Will I be a good mother?" But for some reason, there’s this stigma around talking about that. Because you see her, and no one is thinking about that girl’s mind. To have this woman whose internal landscape is so different than what she’s projecting, that was really, really special. When discussing her character in The Lost Daughter to The Hollywood Reporterrecently, Johnson said of her character: 'Nina is struggling, she’s disappearing.
