Dakota Johnson covers the latest issue of The Edit, net-a-porter.com’s in-house online magazine. I like the editorial a lot, mostly because they’re using whatever means necessary to hide Dakota’s bangs. Plus, I like the library/book theme. Dakota is currently promoting How To Be Single, which comes out just before Valentine’s Day. I actually think the movie looks sort of cute and I’m okay with Dakota being cast as a rom-com heroine. While I used to find her somewhat insipid, there’s something “there” on-screen. She’s got some kind of spark, an It Factor. Anyway, you can read her full profile here, and here are some highlights:
Her latest tattoo is an Aldous Huxley quote “Lightly, my darling”: “Some of the others I’m not so proud of. I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed. But now I’ve outgrown them mostly, and [because] I always have to cover them for jobs, God, they’re annoying! Basically, I really should have listened to everyone. But therein lies my problem in life!”
She’s very sensitive: “I feel so much all the time that it’s exhausting. I cried four times during the Golden Globes, and once was during the commercials…I’m a quiet observer. [Growing up] I was demure some of the time, but also outspoken… I was ‘colorful’. I didn’t abide by rules very well. I was like a wild, feral little child.”
On the nature of celebrity: “It almost feels like a free-for-all nowadays. There’s no more mystery, no more elegance. The Golden Globes, for example, used to be so special. It was a time when you got to see your favorite people, who were making your favorite movies, all interacting with each other; having some witty banter, being enticing and charming. You didn’t see actors unless they were on the red carpet; they weren’t publicly photographed all the time. Now anyone can take my picture, and I can take anyone’s picture, at any moment. I feel like something has been lost. It’s like a little bit of magic is slipping away and I don’t know why. I know it is. And, today, I don’t feel OK with that.”
She feels like the celebrity experience is tacky: “I understood that my family was famous. I saw the way it felt from the inside, and that put me off ever feeling like I was capable of gawking at someone because they were famous.”
Watching her parents act: “I was around for a lot of it and I would watch them. But there were also things I could see that I didn’t want to, like watch my parents have sex with other people. And there was a scene where my mom got slapped in the face. I lost my mind! I couldn’t deal with that at all.”
Getting ready to film the Fifty Shades sequels: “[I have to] get ready to crawl into a hole for six months, say goodbye to my friends and my life, and stop dating bread.”
She also talks about being younger and trying on all of her mom’s red carpet gowns and watching her mom get ready for events. It feels like a dream world, like she had such a happy, eventful, glamorous childhood and even more than that, she’s aware of how special it was. That being said, I had no idea that she was so “sensitive,” that she cries at the drop of a hat, that she would get so emotional about the state of celebrity these days. It’s sort of funny, right? She was literally tearing up as she talked about the lack of glamour at the Golden Globes.
Photos courtesy of The Edit.
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