![]() ![]() The fight for gender equality and protecting women have been recurring themes in her activism, Johnson having witnessed firsthand a business that historically has readily discriminated based on age, race and a host of physical attributes. And by listening with your heart, you can save someone even just a little bit." "Your left ear is the ear closest to your heart. "In this podcast, I want to create a space where the listener is listening just as honestly and bravely as the speakers who had the courage to call," Johnson wrote, the phone number and the podcast currently representing the entirety of her Instagram footprint (yet she has 2.8 million followers). Last year she posted a phone number for women to call to share their personal experiences in a voicemail, and a few days ago the actress announced a new podcast, The Left Ear, that will be featuring those stories. Beautiful."Īfter executing his vision for Suspiria, starring Johnson as the dancer who discovers she's under the tutelage of witches, Guadagnino told The New Yorker last year that if he makes a sequel to Call Me by Your Name, which he directed in between the two other films, he would want Johnson playing the wife of Armie Hammer's true-self-denying character. ![]() And it was so full of nuance and wisdom and sharpness. "And then I remember the scene, how it came to life through you. Because I remember on Bigger Splash, your first shot was you just silently looking at the quarreling between Harry and Marianne on a little wall and then eating. To which Guadagnino replied, "Well, you were a baby, but you were not a baby. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly last year, Johnson noted that she felt like "very much like a baby, and sort of Bambi-like" on the set of A Bigger Splash, which premiered at the 2015 Venice Film Festival. In 2015, the actress went toe to toe with Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts and Ralph Fiennes in Luca Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash, and the Italian director-who you could say has since adopted her as a muse-knew at the time that he wanted her for his planned remake of the horror classic Suspiria, about an American ballet dancer who enrolls at a dance school in Berlin where something isn't quite right and all goes horribly, gorily wrong. She indeed dug into the opportunities arrayed before her with both hands, modeling, hosting Saturday Night Live and lining up other movies, including Black Mass and the comedy How to Be Single, which coincidentally came about during a window in which she was, in fact, single.īut while Fifty Shades of Grey may have been a fantastical coming-out party, still had promo tours for Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed to go, however, and the Rotten Tomatoes score went from 24 percent for Fifty Shades of Grey to 11 and 12 percent for the 20 sequels, respectively.īy the time the final leg was over, and she was free of contractual obligation, Johnson was already 50,000 miles ahead in spirit. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. "I'm proud of Fifty Shades of Grey," Johnson told Vogue UK in 2016 ahead of the release of Black Mass, the true-crime drama about gangster Whitey Bulger that starred Johnny Depp, in which she played his girlfriend. "I don't need to distance myself from that. The feverish hype (casting drama, chemistry tests, Valentines' Day weekend releases!) combined with the increasingly bemused reception to the films as they rolled out between 20 didn't exactly help her cause-except with visibility, of course, which is, after all, so much of the battle in Hollywood.īut, if you were paying attention to anything not Fifty Shades-related that was occurring at the same time, you would've seen that she was quietly laying the foundation for the career she does want, long-term. But as the child of actors (and grandchild, Griffith's mom being screen legend Tippi Hedren), skepticism as to what, exactly, Johnson was bringing to the cinematic arts other than her gorgeousness and her pedigree was unavoidable. She had been acting for over a decade and, as the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, had been Miss Golden Globe in 2006. Especially really, really good looks.ĭakota Johnson wasn't exactly a newcomer when she landed the coveted role of Anastasia Steele in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, based on the best-selling erotic novels about a smart but naive college student who's seduced by a perfect-looking millionaire with a fondness for BDSM (or, he succumbs to her charms, whichever) and complications ranging from mild to absurd ensue on the road to their everlasting happiness. ![]()
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