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Hello and welcome to The Daily Lowdown. your fix of everything in the world of celebrity music and entertainment news. Happy Friday everybody and the weekend is finally here but first I've got the final installment of the Daily Lowdown for the week for you kicking things off today. Dakota Johnson has admitted
she felt a level of pressure starring in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's Verity. The psychological romantic thriller novel released in 2018 has sold more than one million copies In the film, Dakota stars as Loewen Ashley, a struggling writer who moves into the family home of Verity Crawford, played by Anne Hathaway, to ghost-write for her.
Speaking at the film's London premiere last night, Dakota told the Press Association she felt the weight of delivering an adaptation that fans of the book would be satisfied with. She said, I always feel like any book adaptation is tough because every person reading a book, the experience is so insular so it's very much your own imagination that you're really glued to
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