Dakota Johnson Had An Awkward Run-In With Obama Because Of This One Moment
Mothers are no strangers to embarrassing their children, but in a new video Dakota Johnson has revealed the one time that her mother, Oscar-nominated actor Melanie Griffith, might just have taken the biscuit.
'One time I was with my mum and we were meeting Barack Obama, and it was a huge deal,' Johnson admitted in a new interview. 'He was talking to her and she goes, "Oh, Mr. President, this is my daughter. She just did a movie. She’s an actress too. She was in The Social Network. She’s in her underwear." And I died. I died inside.'
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Johnson starred in David Fincher's 2010 film, The Social Network, opposite Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield, but the Madame Webb star is now graduating from acting to directing with her directorial debut, a short film called Loser Baby, which recently debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Loser Baby, which is a 23-minute short film, follows a group of LA-based friends, led by actor Talia Bernstein, who also wrote the script. Bernstein’s character Lizzie is frustrated by the sexless plateau of her long-term relationship—a situation she bemoans to her best friend, played by Blake Lee, that reaches a kind of zenith at a birthday party for another friend, played by Ashley Madekwe.
Johnson also admitted that she's learned something different from all of her previous directors, but that it was Maggie Gyllenhaal – who cast Johnson in her Elena Ferrante adaptation The Lost Daughter – who offered particular inspiration.
'Maggie made me feel, in terms of directing my own stuff, like it’s okay to want to do that,' the actor said. 'Maybe there’s a part of me that’s like, "I can’t do that cause I’m an actress, but I can and I would love to." Her bravery and f*ck it, I’m gonna make this exactly what is in my mind [attitude], and the confidence in that is so inspiring.'
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