“And I readThe Days of Abandonment, which is a brilliant book.
and she went ‘yeah!
‘,” Colman recalls of her first meeting with Gyllenhaal, laughing.
‘The Lost Daughter’ director Maggie Gyllenhaal and stars Dakota Johnson, Dagmara Domińczyk, Olivia Colman, and Jessie Buckley photographed exclusively for EW on Sept. 29, 2021 in New York City.Jai Lennard for EW
“And then we were both drunk for the rest of the day.”
“A cotton candy and lobster rolls vibe.
And then yeah, we couldn’t do it.
‘The Lost Daughter’ director Maggie Gyllenhaal and stars Dakota Johnson, Dagmara Domińczyk, Olivia Colman, and Jessie Buckley photographed exclusively for EW on Sept. 29, 2021 in New York City.Jai Lennard for EW
We wanted to shoot in New Jersey, impossible during the pandemic.
Then we thought Nova Scotia they didn’t want us.
I could see it in Greece.’
And already I had said ‘[Colman] should just be English here.
We do enough pretending.
An Englishwoman in Greece…. We couldn’t be stopped after that.”
“All the islanders were our [extras] in group scenes, Colman remembers.
I was in your film!
It was amazing.”
It was like a discovery of new pathways for me.
But I found going home really hard …
I mean, these women are beyond extraordinary.
And then I was like ‘Wait, hold on.
What is this life?
I have to do what?
It was just so special."
“It made me reframe what being awomanis,” Buckley says.
I definitely feel like it’s changed my life in a way.
That all sounds so stupid, that sentence, but it has."
This does not make you a bad mother.
This does not make you a good mother.
That is what I love about the way Maggie adapted the novel and what the novel’s saying.
We are made of ugly, nasty stuff sometimes, because we’re human."
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