Dakota Johnson Calls Out Creative Decisions Made by People Who Don't Even Watch Movies During 'Hot Ones' Appearance
Dakota Johnson is taking on the wings of death!
The 35-year-old Materialists star sat down with Sean Evans for the latest episode of Hot Ones, out now.
During the appearance, Dakota spoke out about creative decisions being made by people in Hollywood who don’t even watch movies, the difficulty of being in a movie when she doesn’t have creative control, being an unserious person and struggling to get through scenes without laughing, learning how to drive a golf cart at the age of six from being on movie sets, learning how to stunt drive from making movies, and much more.
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On learning how to drive a golf cart at the age of six from being on movie sets:
“I always felt like I wanted to be a part— like when they called rolling and everyone got really quiet and I wouldn’t see where my mom was or where my dad was and I was like watching the monitors, I really wanted to be in the place where they were because it just felt like this magical place. I also learned how to drive a golf cart when I was like six. And that was fun to do on the lot, on the stages.”
On the difficulty of being part of a movie when she doesn’t have creative control, which is partly why she created her own production company:
“I really prefer it. It’s hard to be on some jobs where I don’t have input, creative input.”
On being an unserious person and struggling to get through scenes without laughing:
“Yes. Even in not funny movies I’ve struggled to get through scenes. I find actually that even on the more serious movies is when jokes are afoot.”
“Also, for me at least, I think there’s actors that need to maintain a certain mindset for the whole time, but I don’t do that. I’m like a very unserious person.”
On why Hollywood is so risk averse and creative decisions being made by people who don’t even watch movies:
“I think it’s hard when creative decisions are made by committee. And it’s hard when creative decisions are made by people who don’t even really watch movies or like know anything about them. And that tends to be what’s occurring a lot. And I think also when something does well, studios want to keep that going so they remake the same things. But humans don’t want that. They want fresh. They want to feel new things, experience new things, see new things. So, I don’t know. I guess it’s all just a bit of a mess right now, isn’t it?”
On learning how to stunt drive from making movies:
“Stunt driving is fun definitely. And hard to kind of let go of that.”
“I can do like a high speed 180. I’m really good at parallel parking too. I’m like a one and done.”