In “Daddio,” the feature film debut of writer-director Christy Hall, nearly the entire story unfolds in a New York City yellow cab as it travels through the night from John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens to the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.
That’s it.
A cab driver played by Sean Penn, a passenger played by Dakota Johnson, and a conversation that rises and falls over the course of slightly more than 90 minutes.
For the viewer it’s an intense, mesmerizing journey through the lives, loves, remembrances and regrets of Clark and Girlie, whose actual name is never revealed. Its appeal to Johnson, who’s also a producer on the film, and Penn, who she recruited as her costar, was equally powerful.
“As an actor, it’s a delicious meal,” Johnson says as she sits next to Penn in a suite at the Oceana Hotel in Santa Monica recently. “For it to be this sort of sweeping, soaring conversation in a contained space about subjects I find really interesting – the dynamics and power dynamics between men and women and family. It felt just like such a treat.
“So as an actor, a no-brainer for me,” she says. “And then as a producer, my partner and I really wanted to make this film because most of the projects that I want to make really have a very large and loud-beating heart in them. And this one did for me. So much.”
Sean Penn as Clark in writer-director Christy Hart’s “Daddio.” (Image by Phedon Papamichael, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
Dakota Johnson as Girlie and Sean Penn as Clark in wreiter-director Christy Hart’s “Daddio.” (Image by Phedon Papamichael, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
Writer-director Christy Hall attends the “Daddio” premiere during the Tribeca Festival at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Monday, June 10, 2024, in New York. Her feature film debut stars Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn and opens in theaters on Friday, June 21, 2024. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Dakota Johnson as Girlie in writer-director Christy Hart’s “Daddio.” (Image by Phedon Papamichael, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
Actors Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, center with writer-director Christy Hall attend the premiere of their new film “Daddio” at the TIFF Bell Lightbox during the Toronto International Film Festival, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023, in Toronto. “Daddio” opens on Friday, June 21, 2024. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
Sean Penn as Clark in writer-director Christy Hart’s “Daddio.” (Image by Phedon Papamichael, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
Actors Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, center with writer-director Christy Hall attend the premiere of their new film “Daddio” at the TIFF Bell Lightbox during the Toronto International Film Festival, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023, in Toronto. “Daddio” opens on Friday, June 21, 2024. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
Dakota Johnson as Girlie in writer-director Christy Hart’s “Daddio.” (Image by Phedon Papamichael, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
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