Is it a matter of genes, determination, talent, grit or just luck and circumstance? Whatever factor we think weighed heavily in getting Dakota Johnson to stamp her admittedly shapely feet in the entertainment industry, the suma doesn't change. The 32-year-old Texan, the fruit of the stormy love affair between Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, granddaughter of Tippi Hendren and - for a moon - stepdaughter of Antonio Banderas, who, with the film adaptation of "Fifty Shades of Grey" and the 1 billion. The film's $1.5 billion box office gross made her presence known throughout the world - and even without being labeled as such by the controversial role of Anastasia Steele - is considered the fast-rising star of Hollywood.
And to think that in her first attempt to take acting seriously, putting herself through the ordeal of exams at the famous Juilliard School, she failed miserably. But she didn't give up. She showed the same tenacity when her father decided to cut off her funding in response to his then 18-year-old daughter's decision not to study but to continue the ancestral tradition of acting. She, instead of turning black, started looking for a job. In little more than a week she had already passed the audition for "The Social Network", the now famous film about the beginnings of Facebook by David Fincher, booking her first role, which you wouldn't exactly call decent, considering that she played the one night stand of one of the founders of the social network played by Justin Timberlake.
Spurning Gray
Her unapologetic and rather innate sex appeal has apparently to this day been a catalyst in her emergence as a movie star. Five years after her departure from Fincher's film, Johnson made the whole world (over)talk about her by serving - with honor - the role of the surrendered heroine to Mr. Gray's sexual appetites. Yes, at 26, the actress could now claim to be as recognizable as her famous parents, influential enough to become the flesh of the Time's Up movement but also wealthy enough to invest her nest egg in a sex aids company called Maude. "Sexual wellness is a fundamental human right. Maude's ethos is something I strongly support and is in line with my core beliefs about sexual health.
In addition, the calibre and aesthetics of these products are exceptional and of a high standard. I love them," she has said about her business, always projecting her unapologetically cool and unwaveringly detached style. This holiday season, Santa Claus is right on time - not a second too late or too late - for Dakota Johnson and for her devotees who probably number in the millions. On Instagram alone, she is followed by 4.4 million followers, while she follows just 34 accounts, including those of Greta Tunberg, Kamala Harris, Elton John, her half-sister Stella Banderas, Gucci art director Alessandro Michele and NASA. Netflix has decided to screen The Prodigal Daughter, in which the up-and-coming actress stars alongside Oscar-winner Olivia Coleman, on December 31.
Shot in the summer of 2020 in Spetses and lined with Monika's original music, the film is actually the film adaptation of Elena Ferrante's best-selling book of the same name, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who also takes the baptism of fire behind the camera. Naturally, the director found her ideal muse in Johnson. After all, the heroine she embodies, named Nina, communicates, interacts, and walks with a pantiera of attractiveness.
On the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, where the film had its world premiere in September, Johnson confirmed with her unadorned appearance that she is not just another sexy girl, which is well known and commonly accepted from her IMG agency modeling credits, but she possesses the know-how and has the aura of a star. The stunning dress by Gucci, whose ambassador she serves as, just added a little more sparkle to her already dazzling radiance. She said with an excess of coolness that she was unable to see the film, at least as clearly as other viewers saw it, as she had forgotten her myopia glasses. "I guess it's nice," she said, without anyone ever knowing whether it was a joke or raw naivety.
In any case, at any Hollywood haunt, the actress has every reason to feel at home and behave accordingly, having been nurtured on movie sets while waiting for her parents to finish a shoot.
And she has every reason to feel she's more than doing well, if you believe the rumors that a few months ago she bought a mansion in Malibu, where she houses her love affair with Coldplay frontman - and Gwyneth Paltrow's ex-husband - Chris Martin and, of course, her precious collection of paintings by her beloved David Hockney. Of course, the actress neither confirms nor denies the speculation. She consciously chooses to defend her aggressive definition of privacy. Okay, Chris Martin may have referred to her onstage as "his whole world" at a recent concert, but she bears little - at least direct - responsibility for that.
On Instagram she has 4.4 million followers, while she follows just 34 accounts
Johnson prefers to occupy the news on different issues, more useful than whether she'll marry Martin - even Don Johnson shudders to answer on her behalf when asked about it - or whether Gwyneth Paltrow has given her blessing yes, that's happened too. The 32-year-old actress speaks long and often about the inequalities between men and women in the entertainment industry and in society, believes that the empowerment of women is the overriding demand of the day, and wonders why both her mother and grandmother have been almost ostracized from Hollywood. She knows, she says, firsthand that fame is an intangible and certainly fleeting thing. Despite her young age and her enduring zeal - witness the nearly 30 films she has been in since 1999, when she made her debut at age 10 in Banderas' Crazy in Alabama - Johnson openly takes on all manner of discrimination and pathologies that plague the film industry.
She recently spoke out about the abusive treatment her grandmother, Hitchcock's iconic muse, received from the horror master. Tippi Hedren, now 91, seems to have been a defining influence on her granddaughter. Johnson, among other things, is an active animal rights activist, preserving indelible memories of the time when humans and animals from cats and dogs to tigers and elephants coexisted in harmony on Hendren's California ranch. Taught from a young age to live with real beasts, it's probably butter for her to tame the other beasts she now encounters at work. Dakota Johnson refuses to be categorized, to be put into the box that others have decided for her. Yes, she can be sexy and seductive and yet innocent and ethereal, but she is determined not to allow her cinematic mirror image to define her. Like, say, Sharon Stone, who at 63 is still struggling with the chimera of her role in "Basic Instinct."
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