Dakota Johnson Gets Splattered with Fake Blood Filming a Scene for Colleen Hoover'sVerityin N.Y.C.

Mar. 15, 2025

Josh Hartnett and Dakota Johnson on March 12, 2025.Photo:Aeon/GC Images

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Dakota Johnsonis off to a bloody start filming her upcoming role in aColleen Hooveradaptation.

On Wednesday, March 12, the actress, 35, was photographed with fake blood splattered on her face and clothes while filming a scene withJosh HartnettforVerityin New York City.

Johnson appeared to depict a scene from the book involving a car accident with a cyclist. Hartnett, 46, in character as Jeremy Crawford, arrives in the scene as he and Johnson’s character Lowen Ashleigh cross a street together after the incident.

Verityalso starsAnne Hathaway. PEOPLEconfirmed that Hathaway had joined the movieback in November 2024, as well as news that Hathaway would work on the film as a producer alongside director Michael Showalter, whom she previously worked with on 2024’sThe Idea of You.

Hathaway, 42, and Hartnett were previously seen filmingVeritytogether in N.Y.C. in February, when they werephotographed running through the streetsas they held hands while dressed in semi-formal attire.

Dakota Johnson on March 12, 2025.TheStewartofNY/GC Images

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Hathaway portrays the movie’s title character, a bestselling author, while Johnson’s Lowen is a struggling writer who is given the “job offer of a lifetime” from Verity’s husband Jeremy (Hartnett) to help finish Verity’s successful series after a “mysterious accident” leaves Verity herself unable to write, per a synopsis.

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“Upon arrival at the lavish Crawford estate, Lowen slowly learns that things are not exactly as they seem with the discovery of a secret, unfinished manuscript that may divulge chilling admissions about the family’s past,” the synopsis reads.

Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett on March 12, 2025.Aeon/GC Images

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The project is the second of Hoover’s novels to receive a big-screen adaptation.It Ends With Us, which starred Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, proved a major success with audiences at the box office when it released in August 2024. “Excited is an understatement,” Hoover wrote of news regarding Johnson and Hartnett’s casting in a December 2024Instagram post.

source: people.com