From The Telegraph:
Her father said he wouldn’t watch it. She has banned her mother from seeing it. But one thing is certain: an awful lot of people are going to flock to the cinema to see her in it.
The trailer for the film adaptation of EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey has already been viewed more than 93 million times on YouTube.
Her father said he wouldn’t watch it. She has banned her mother from seeing it. But one thing is certain: an awful lot of people are going to flock to the cinema to see her in it.
The trailer for the film adaptation of EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey has already been viewed more than 93 million times on YouTube.
But she defended the artistic merits of a film which requires her to be tied up, blindfolded and whipped.
“It is quite beautiful and very intricate: the way the knots are tied and the variety of knots and tools and rope. The details matter so much and there are rules and manners, an etiquette that goes with the whole world of it,” she tells this week’s Stella magazine.
Fortunately Johnson, 25, comes from an acting family, where every day involves adopting the guise of improbable characters in unlikely scenarios.
Her father Don Johnson was the star of hyper-stylised Eighties cop show Miami Vice. Her mother, Melanie Griffith, was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Mike Nichols’s Working Girl, as well as, rather unkindly, winning more than one Golden Raspberry Award for worst actress.
Dakota, who has previously appeared in 21 Jump Street and The Five-Year Engagement, says none of her family were concerned about her taking the part of Anastasia. “They were all like, 'Go, do it, cool, call me later,’ ” but she adds: “I don’t want them to see it. At all!” Her father has already said as much. Don Johnson told The Telegraph last June: “It’s not something I would go to anyway. If you’ve read Story of O, which I did in the Sixties, you pretty much get it.
“This is the family business, we portray characters and this is the character that Dakota is portraying. It’s difficult for people to separate who we are from the characters we portray, but not for me.”
Unlike her co-star, the Northern Irish actor Jamie Dornan, who plays a billionaire with a fetish for sadomasochism, Johnson did not feel the need to visit any bondage and sado/masochism clubs (BDSM) to research her role, although a “consulting dominant” was on set to offer advice.
“We needed to do it the right way and also to pay respect to the BDSM community,” she says, adding that she never felt uncomfortable with all those knots and whips.
“I definitely did trust Sam completely. She created a very safe, protected environment. The set was closed. It’s not like there were hundreds of people around.”
Johnson had a fairly unconventional upbringing, with her parents separating when she was four, reuniting, then divorcing for good when she was seven. Her upbringing was, she says, “bizarre”, shuttling around different film sets as her parents started new relationships. “I grew up around really not normal people,” she says.
Fifty Shades of Grey is released on Friday, the eve of Valentine’s Day.
Her father said he wouldn’t watch it. She has banned her mother from seeing it. But one thing is certain: an awful lot of people are going to flock to the cinema to see her in it.
The trailer for the film adaptation of EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey has already been viewed more than 93 million times on YouTube.
But she defended the artistic merits of a film which requires her to be tied up, blindfolded and whipped.
“It is quite beautiful and very intricate: the way the knots are tied and the variety of knots and tools and rope. The details matter so much and there are rules and manners, an etiquette that goes with the whole world of it,” she tells this week’s Stella magazine.
Fortunately Johnson, 25, comes from an acting family, where every day involves adopting the guise of improbable characters in unlikely scenarios.
Her father Don Johnson was the star of hyper-stylised Eighties cop show Miami Vice. Her mother, Melanie Griffith, was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Mike Nichols’s Working Girl, as well as, rather unkindly, winning more than one Golden Raspberry Award for worst actress.
Dakota, who has previously appeared in 21 Jump Street and The Five-Year Engagement, says none of her family were concerned about her taking the part of Anastasia. “They were all like, 'Go, do it, cool, call me later,’ ” but she adds: “I don’t want them to see it. At all!” Her father has already said as much. Don Johnson told The Telegraph last June: “It’s not something I would go to anyway. If you’ve read Story of O, which I did in the Sixties, you pretty much get it.
“This is the family business, we portray characters and this is the character that Dakota is portraying. It’s difficult for people to separate who we are from the characters we portray, but not for me.”
Unlike her co-star, the Northern Irish actor Jamie Dornan, who plays a billionaire with a fetish for sadomasochism, Johnson did not feel the need to visit any bondage and sado/masochism clubs (BDSM) to research her role, although a “consulting dominant” was on set to offer advice.
“We needed to do it the right way and also to pay respect to the BDSM community,” she says, adding that she never felt uncomfortable with all those knots and whips.
“I definitely did trust Sam completely. She created a very safe, protected environment. The set was closed. It’s not like there were hundreds of people around.”
Johnson had a fairly unconventional upbringing, with her parents separating when she was four, reuniting, then divorcing for good when she was seven. Her upbringing was, she says, “bizarre”, shuttling around different film sets as her parents started new relationships. “I grew up around really not normal people,” she says.
Fifty Shades of Grey is released on Friday, the eve of Valentine’s Day.
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