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Dakota Johnson claims making new horror film Suspiria sent her to therapy: 'It f***ed me up so much'

It's a remake of the Dario Argento 1977 classic by Call Me By Your Name's Luca Guadagnino

Jacob Stolworthy
Friday 27 April 2018 11:12 BST
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Dakota Johnson has claimed that her experience filming new horror film Suspiria was so intense it sent her to therapy.

The Fifty Shades star heads up the cast of Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino's remake of the 1977 classic by Italian horror maestro Dario Argento alongside Chloë Grace Moretz, Mia Goth and an unrecognisable Tilda Swinton.

Speaking to Elle magazine, Johnson said: “[Making Suspiria], no lie, f**ked me up so much that I had to go to therapy.

“We were in an abandoned hotel on top of a mountain,“ she continued. ”It had 30 telephone poles on the roof, so there was electricity pulsating through the building, and everyone was shocking each other. It was cold as s**t, and so dry.”

The film, shot on location in Northern Italy at the abandoned Grand Hotel Campo dei Fiori, will receive a general release later this year. It follows Johnson's American ballet student who, after enrolling at a revered dance school run by the mysterious Madame Blanc (an unreognisable Swinton), soon discovers dark secrets abound. It's scored by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke.

Johnson will next start her own production company, revealing in the interview: “I’ve come to terms with the fact that the projects I want to work on don’t exist, so I’m going to have to create them for myself.“

Suspiria's UK release date is yet to be confirmed.

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