IsDakota Johnsontoo friendly to be an actress? She thinks that's true in at least one case.
"I had an audition once, and it was a callback, and I went into the room, and I shook everyone's hand and introduced myself. Then I did the scene, and I left," Johnson toldHits Radio. "The feedback I got was that because I had gone and introduced myself and shook everyone's hand is that I was pompous. That I was schmoozing, and I was full of myself."
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TheFifty Shades of Greyactress was perplexed.
"I was like: 'What?' I didn't get the job because they said that I was being cocky," she recalled. "But I just had manners… It was pretty crazy."
The actress has since enjoyed much more positive developments in her career, including not just playing Anastasia Steele toJamie Dornan'sChristian Grey inFifty Shades of Grey, but movies such asMaterialists,Splitsville, andHow to Be Single.
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Johnson has noted that she'd like toportray a psychopathand do an action movie in the future.
"I'm open to anything," she told reporters in July at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, perVariety. "Certain things [just have] to align."
And that goes beyond acting. Johnson, the daughter of Oscar-nominated actressMelanie Griffithand Emmy-nominated actorDon Johnson, is also a producer through her TeaTime Pictures. Her producing credits also includeAm I Okay?andDaddio.
"So much of why I wanted to start a production company and make my own movies is because I want more from this industry," Johnson told Variety. "I want more from my experience as an artist. I felt so thirsty for more conversation and more creativity and more collaboration. I found myself as an actor, a few times, showing up to the premiere of a movie to see it the first time and saying, 'Woah. That is not what I thought we were making.'"
She described that as "such a weird thing to do."
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