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The star, who gained notoriety after her role in the 50 Shades of Grey franchise, is starring in the Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion where she plays a hopeful romantic

Netflix’s Persuasion is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, in terms of plot structure. It follows the second-chance romance of Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) and Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis) through almost exactly the same beats and events as the book.

To begin with a perhaps quintessentially Jane Austen question: Which of these two do you prefer?

Likable Dakota Johnson stars as the 19th century heroine reunited with the suitor she jilted.

The new adaptation of "Persuasion," coming to Netflix Friday, does not seem to have been made for Jane Austen fans. Her book about the unmarried Anne Elliot, who at 27 is on the edge of spinsterhood and regretting having been persuaded to give up her true love years earlier because…

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

It's the Summer of Dakota as Fifty Shades Star Johnson stars in Cha Cha Real Smooth and the updated adaptation of Jane Austen's love story Persuasion - and she says she bares her soul in every role

At no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read ‘Persuasion’

Theatre director Carrie Cracknell’s ham-fisted adaptation misses the naunces of the author’s writing and opts instead for romcom sassiness

Actors including Tim Brierley and Sorcha Cusack narrate this version of the great writer’s final novel originally created for radio