Johnson is no stranger to Hollywood stardom herself, being the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, and granddaughter to 1960s movie star Tippi Hedren. And just really having the whole weight of that franchise fall on her shoulders and making that character three-dimensional for it was pretty amazing.” So having worked with her, we were talking about her for Fifty Shades. Even in that one scene she has with Justin Timberlake, we thought she really was quite compelling. “I remember Dana and I being blown away by just her brief appearance in The Social Network. Related: The Social Network True Story: Everything The Facebook Movie Got WrongĪs reported by THR, this pivotal scene in The Social Network allowed Johnson to land her starring role in Fifty Shades of Grey. Michael De Luca, producer of both The Social Network and Fifty Shades along with Dana Brunetti, explained how Johnson's brief appearance in Fincher's film "blew him away." According to De Luca, Johnson was so "compelling" in such a short amount of screen time that he and Brunetti immediately thought of her when it came to casting Fifty Shades of Grey.See De Luca's full quote below: Parker later asks to use Ritter's laptop and discovers Facebook, setting the film's second act in motion. In the scene, the two joke about how Johnson's character had no idea that her suitor was a major celebrity.
In The Social Network, Johnson she plays Amelia Ritter, a student at Stanford who spends the night with Napster founder, Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake). Many viewers may not remember that Johnson was also in The Social Network, Fincher's film about the beginnings of Facebook, written by Aaron Sorkin. In fact, the actress appears in only one scene of the Oscar Award-winning movie. She starred opposite Jamie Dornan as the mysterious Christian Grey. While the film was not a critical success, it spawned a massive fan base, and the Fifty Shades trilogy, including Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, made a massive $1.3 billion dollars overall.
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Dakota Johnson landed her role in the Fifty Shades of Greymovie series due to a much smaller role in David Fincher's The Social Network. Johnson first appeared as Anastasia Steele back in 2015 in the first adaptation of E.L.