Dakota Johnson Opens Up At Long Last About Her Behind the Screen Experience on 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
Dakota Johnson has finally opened up about the process filming Fifty Shades of Grey.
Dakota Johnson is an actress who seems to be appearing in every project under the sun. She stars in the recently released film Cha Cha Real Smooth and in the soon to be released Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel Persuasion. She is an actress that can really do anything. It is easy to forget that the star got her start leading the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise.
In an interview published today, Johnson spoke to Vanity Fair about a lot of the chaos that was happening behind the scenes of the film - chaos she did not feel at liberty to discuss until now. The actress recounted to the outlet:
"I signed up to do a very different version of the film we ended up making...She [the author of the books] had a lot of creative control, all day, every day, and she just demanded that certain things happen. There were parts of the books that just wouldn't work in a movie, like the inner monologue, which was at times incredibly cheesy. It wouldn't work to say out loud.
"It was always a battle. Always. When I auditioned for that movie, I read a monologue from Persona" -the Ingmar Bergman classic from 1966- "and I was like, 'Oh, this is going to be really special.'...I was young. I was 23. So it was scary...It just became something crazy...There were a lot of different disagreements.
"I haven't been able to talk about this truthfully ever, because you want to promote a movie the right way, and I'm proud of what we made, ultimately and everything turns out the way it's supposed to - but it was tricky."
Even with all of the chaos, however, Johnson assured VF that she does not regret being part of the films. She expressed:
"If I had known at the time that's what it was going to be like, I don't think anyone would've done it. It would've been like, 'Oh, this is psychotic.' But no, I don't regret it. "There are things that I still cannot say because I don't want to hurt anyone's career and I don't want to damage anybody's reputation, but both Jamie and I were treated really well." "Erika is a very nice woman, and she was always kind to me and I am grateful she wanted me to be in those movies...Look, it was great for our careers...So amazing. So lucky. But it was weird. So, so weird."
We are so grateful that Johnson was finally able to share this story. Persuasion comes to Netflix on July 8th.
