Actress Dakota Johnson, Ro Donnelly Board Sundance Doc ‘The Disappearance Of Shere Hite’ As EP’s, With Johnson Tapped As Voice Of Famed Sex Researcher
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Award-winning actress Dakota Johnson and her producing partner at TeaTime Pictures, Ro Donnelly, have joined The Disappearance of Shere Hite as executive producers ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
Johnson also is featured as the voice of Hite in the film about the renowned sex researcher and author of The Hite Report, the mega-bestseller published in 1976 that “liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents.” Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nicole Newnham (Crip Camp) directed the documentary, which premieres Friday, January 20 in U.S.
Documentary Competition. Hite, who died in 2020 at the age of 77, spent the last decades of her life living in Europe, having been subjected to relentless attack by conservatives in the U.S.
upset by her work that “challenged restrictive conceptions of sex and opened a dialogue in popular culture around women’s pleasure.” A description of the film adds, “Hite… became the public messenger of women’s secret confessions.
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