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“Persuasion”: Dakota Johnson Trends ‘Today’ in an Updated Jane Austen Costume Design
Can Jane Austen fans be persuaded to love Netflix's adaptation of her final novel Persuasion - starring Dakota Johnson (Anne Elliot), Henry Golding (Mr. Elliot) and Cosmo Jarvis (Captain Frederick Wentworth) Jane Austen's Persuasion has critics all aflutter at the liberties taken by director Carrie Cracknell and costume designer, Marianne Agertoft (Poldark, Utopia, Les Misérables) that imbues the work with a current sensibility? This is established in the first beat of the film when Ms.