Rising up with well-known dad and mom, Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson and stepfather Antonio Banderas, left an indelible mark on Dakota Johnson — typically for the higher and typically not.
“I don’t assume I ever actually realized what Hollywood was, however I grew up on set and was at all times surrounded by individuals who made films,” Johnson instructed Vogue Germany for its November cowl story. “I imply, I used to be born in Texas as a result of my father filmed there.”
The “Fifty Shades of Gray” actress mentioned she at all times knew her household’s career was completely different from her classmates whose mothers and dads went to an workplace every day.
“That was a problem as a result of it’s arduous to make and hold associates if you’re on the street a lot as a child,” she mentioned. “However I at all times simply accepted it: That is what we do. It’s in our blood.”
Due to that affect, Johnson mentioned she wished to be an actress since she was a child and “be part of what the folks round me had been doing.”
“As a baby, I used to be obsessive about films,” she instructed Vogue. “I used to be the child who watched the identical factor time and again for a yr. I believe that shapes your creativeness and what you assume is feasible for your self, particularly if you watch films with different kids, like ‘Mary Poppins’ or ‘Dwelling Alone.’”
Johnson’s dad and mom, nevertheless, didn’t enable her to behave as a baby till she graduated from highschool, except for a small position together with her mom within the 1999 movie “Loopy in Alabama.”
Regardless of all of the constructive publicity to a artistic business, having well-known dad and mom could possibly be unsettling as a baby.
“After I was little, there have been occasions when it was actually fairly scary, and other people would aggressively and bodily attempt to get to my mother once we had been simply going to the grocery store or one thing,” she mentioned, including, “For those who settle for that as regular as slightly child, it may well result in a variety of complexes.”
She continued, “After which, after all, the truth that you’re within the public eye and the world is aware of about your non-public life in a means that’s very invasive, impolite, and painful. So, sure, there are downsides, however there are additionally unimaginable upsides—like with every thing, I believe.”
Griffith, who’s finest identified for 1988’s “Working Woman,” married Don Johnson, of “Miami Vice” fame in 1976, which lasted six months. They married a second time in 1989, shortly earlier than Dakota was born, and divorced in 1996.
Griffith married Banderas in 1996, they usually divorced in 2015.
Dakota Johnson has by no means been married. She was in a long-term relationship with “Coldplay” frontman Chris Martin till this yr.
