


“There were no two souls more in rhythm than Wentworth and I,” Anne laments. She was nearly ahead of schedule, but eight years prior, her parents decided the love of her life-the dashing Frederick Wentworth, played by Cosmo Jarvis-wasn’t up to snuff. The trailer that dropped on Tuesday finds Johnson as Anne, a young single woman who’s edging past the age that early 1800s English high society expects her to marry. But with Carrie Cracknell’s upcoming adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1817 romance novel Persuasion, the 32-year-old actor is changing things up.

Dakota Johnson typically goes for films that take place in the present.
