Dakota Johnson on April 18, 2023.Photo:Jon Kopaloff/Getty
Jon Kopaloff/Getty
Johnson, 34, said that she finds conversations surrounding celebrities whose parents are also celebrities or otherwise influential in the entertainment industry “incredibly annoying and boring” during anappearanceon theTodayshow Wednesday.
“Like, if you’re a journalist, write about something else,” she told hostHoda Kotb, who asked Johnson — whose parents are actorsMelanie GriffithandDon Johnson— about poking fun at her own celebrity status.
“That’s just like, lame. So the opportunity to make fun of it, I jumped at,” she added.
Johnson, who has been promoting her new movieMadame Webin recent weeks, recently poked fun at having celebrity parents during herrecentSaturday Night Livehosting stint. In one filmed video with the show’s group Please Don’t Destroy, she and comedians John Higgins and Martin Herlihy — sons ofSNLproducer Steve Higgins and former head writer Tim Herlihy, respectively —struck a “nepo truce"with matching rings while otherwise roasting each other.
Melanie Griffith, Dakota Johnson and Don Johnson on Feb. 3, 2016.Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Johnson and her father Don, 74, have been open about his decision tocut her off financiallywhen she decided to pursue acting rather than attend college after she graduated high school.
“He said, ‘If you go to college, you’ll still get an allowance,' " she recalled on theTodayshow Wednesday. “And I was like, ‘Well, I’m going to be an actress.’ So he was like, ‘Alright, well you’re on your own.' "
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Johnson secured her first acting role as an adult in 2010’sThe Social Networkand has seen significant success since, most notably for her starring role in 2015’sFifty Shades of Greyand its two sequels.
“I did some little modeling jobs that helped me pay my rent. And then I started auditioning and got some jobs,” she told Kotb of how she survived after her father took her off “the payroll,” as she says he refers to the family’s finances. “I definitely had moments where I couldn’t afford groceries and had to ask my mom to help me. She was the nice one.”
Don Johnson and Dakota Johnson.Don Johnson/Instagram
Don Johnson/Instagram
Dakota has shared in the past that she understood why her parents did not want her to forsake higher education to pursue acting. “I couldn’t wait because I grew up on set. My parents were always working with amazing artists, and I just loved it,” shetoldW Magazineof her lifelong desire to act back in 2022. “I wanted to be a part of it so badly.”
Madame Webreleases in theaters Feb. 14.
source: people.com
