Dakota Johnson has very mixed feelings about her breakout movie, said Britt Hennemuth in Vanity Fair. The daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, Johnson, 32, became a global star after 2015’s Fifty Shades of Grey, the first installment in the sex-charged trilogy about a young woman’s erotic initiation into sadomasochism. “I’m a sexual person,” she says. “[But] I signed up to do a very different version of the film we ended up making.” Author E.L. James, who wrote the best-selling novels, had creative control and “demanded that certain things happen,” Johnson says. “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 was always a battle.” She and her romantic co-star, Jamie Dornan, stuck up for each other when filming boundary-pushing sex scenes, such as refusing to shoot at certain camera angles. “We were doing the weirdest things for years,” Johnson says, “and we needed to be a team.” The “big naked movies,” as Johnson calls them, raked in over $1 billion globally. “Look, it was great for our careers,” Johnson says. “But it was weird. So, so weird. 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.”
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