Dakota Johnson takes a walk down memory lane as she rewatches scenes from her classic works including 'The Social Network,' 'Suspiria,' 'The Lost Daughter,' 'The Peanut Butter Falcon,' and 'Cha Cha Real Smooth.' Dakota dishes on the time her mom exposed her in front of former President Barack Obama, saging while filming 'Suspiria,' and how 'The Peanut Butter Falcon' "saved" her during a time she needed most.
Director: Claire Buss
Director of Photography: Dave Sanders
Editor: Cory Stevens
Talent: Dakota Johnson
Producer: Madison Coffey
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Associate Producer: Lyla Neely
Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Talent Booker: Lauren Mendoza
Camera Operator: Nigel Akam
Gaffer: Dave Plank
Audio Engineer: Kevin Teixeira
Production Assistant: Nicole Murphy
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Director: Claire Buss
Director of Photography: Dave Sanders
Editor: Cory Stevens
Talent: Dakota Johnson
Producer: Madison Coffey
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Associate Producer: Lyla Neely
Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Talent Booker: Lauren Mendoza
Camera Operator: Nigel Akam
Gaffer: Dave Plank
Audio Engineer: Kevin Teixeira
Production Assistant: Nicole Murphy
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
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00:00I was with my mom and we were meeting Barack Obama, and it was a huge deal.
00:05He was talking to her and she goes,
00:06Oh, Mr. President, this is my daughter.
00:08She's just did a movie.
00:10She's an actress too.
00:11She was in the social network.
00:12She's in her underwear.
00:13And I died.
00:14I died inside.
00:16Hi, I'm Dakota Johnson.
00:18And I'm gonna be watching some scenes from throughout my career.
00:22It seems.
00:23And I'm sweating.
00:24So let's go.
00:30Okay.
00:43You don't know my name, do you?
00:45Is it Stanford?
00:47I should just kick your ass.
00:49How do you go to a party and you meet someone?
00:51I'm Amelia Ritter.
00:52But you prefer Amy.
00:53You're from Orinda.
00:54Your father's in commercial real estate and your mother's 10 years sober.
00:58I think that because this was the social network and David Fincher,
01:04we did this so many times that I'm like, I'm in it.
01:06I know it.
01:07I know all the lines.
01:08It's still there.
01:09We did it so many times that I feel like I remember this and it's happening now.
01:15Maybe I was traumatized.
01:17Next.
01:21And there I am speaking French.
01:23You're made just French.
01:25Mine?
01:26I don't have one.
01:29I don't go to school.
01:30You're kidding.
01:32No.
01:33Well, where did you go to school?
01:35William Taft Elementary for a little while.
01:38Seriously?
01:39You're not like 15 years old or anything, are you?
01:42No.
01:47Are you kidding?
01:50I was just like 19 and straddling Justin Timberlake and like whipping him in the face
01:55with my hair.
01:55100% had preconceived notions, but he was lovely and kind and really, you know,
02:01welcoming for a person that was just a stranger.
02:05I was not allowed to keep them, unfortunately.
02:08They're good, good, good little booty short.
02:11One time I was with my mom and we were meeting Barack Obama and it was a huge deal.
02:17He was talking to her and she goes, oh, Mr. President, this is my daughter.
02:21She's just did a movie.
02:22She's an actress too.
02:23She was in the social network.
02:24She's in her underwear.
02:25And I died.
02:26I died inside.
02:34When you dance the dance of another, you make yourself in the image of its creator.
02:38Tilda.
02:40I just texted with Tilda just now.
02:43You're in a company now.
02:44You have to find your right place.
02:45You have to decide.
02:47What is it you want to be for this company?
02:49God, I loved making this movie so much.
02:52I really miss it.
02:53We were filming on the top of a mountain in the north of Italy in a town called Verizon
02:59and in this abandoned hotel.
03:02And it was like a cast of 40 women.
03:04And it was just amazing and so strange and weird.
03:10And the hotel that we were filming and had all of these electrical towers because it
03:14was like the hub for the electricity of the town.
03:18It's like where everyone got their cell service.
03:20And it made everyone act really strange.
03:23And everyone was shocking each other all the time.
03:25And you'd have to constantly wash your hands to get the electricity out of your body.
03:29It was a beautiful building.
03:30And you do what you got to do to make a beautiful movie.
03:34Higher.
03:35Higher.
03:37Higher.
03:38Higher.
03:40Higher.
03:42Higher.
03:43We did like months of training for Suspiria for all of the dancing.
03:50I did all of my own dancing apart from like a couple of things.
03:54And there was two things that I couldn't do, which was like a quadruple pirouette.
03:59Obviously, who can?
04:00These jumps we actually used.
04:03I'm pretty sure Luca used visual effects to make them look crazy because I can't do that.
04:09Also, the floor of the dance studio where we rehearsed was mapped out sort of like a
04:19pentagram.
04:20And where the dancers were moving at certain times, it was like a spell.
04:24There's a lot of layers to this movie.
04:29But the dancing was incredibly specific.
04:33Higher.
04:34Higher.
04:35Higher.
04:37Higher.
04:38Higher.
04:40Higher.
04:43I think we finished the movie right before Christmas.
04:48We were in such a world of our own.
04:51And it was so weird.
04:52And there was like so many weird objects on set.
04:56And I started having really crazy nightmares.
05:00Not nightmares, but just scary dreams that I was accepting because it's kind of a scary movie.
05:06So when I got home, I had to do a lot of like...
05:10I mean, it sounds really woo-woo, but I had to do a lot of like cleansing and
05:15saging and kind of like releasing any energies that had sort of latched on to me.
05:22I'm that person.
05:30I've been following you for like 10 minutes.
05:32Yeah, you should.
05:32Is everything okay?
05:34Oh, I love her so much.
05:37Your number came up on my phone yesterday.
05:43You called me?
05:45I did.
05:46I mean, Olivia is the best person on the planet.
05:49And the best actress.
05:51And working with her, every single take was delicious and vibrant and so alive.
05:58And she's like a really electric artist.
06:01Nina has a really special part of my heart and my mind.
06:10She's kind of this like hardened, young, broken woman.
06:15And it's heartbreaking, but you feel like she's going to be okay.
06:19Like she'd kill somebody if she had to, but she was fine.
06:24I know you saw me with Will.
06:32I don't want you to think badly of me.
06:34I don't think badly of anyone.
06:37Yeah.
06:39Yeah, see, I knew that.
06:40As soon as I saw you, I just, I was like, I want to be like that lady.
06:46This was an interesting dynamic, just trying to figure out how
06:51these two women could see themselves in each other.
06:54This like the struggle of being a mother and being an individual and
06:58being a woman and having dreams and having a life of your own.
07:03And then feeling like it's being sucked out of you and still trying to maintain
07:11a glimmer of composure and grace and also, you know, immense love for your own child.
07:18So, you know, it's kind of a dynamic between two
07:24mothers with incredibly complex relationships with their, with being mothers.
07:34It won't stay on.
07:35Oh, hey.
07:38Can I?
07:40My grandma used to use hat pins.
07:41It won't fall off now.
07:43I have taken things from all directors that I've worked with and not taken things and
07:48learned what I like and what I don't like.
07:50But Maggie made me feel, in terms of directing my own stuff, like it's okay to want to do that.
07:58Because maybe there's a part of me that's like, well, I can't do that because I'm an actress.
08:03But I can, and I would love to.
08:05Her bravery and her sort of just like, fuck it, I'm gonna,
08:09I'm gonna make this exactly what it is in my mind.
08:11And the confidence in that is so inspiring.
08:20I love Saltwater Brownneck.
08:25And she is my hero.
08:26And she is totally a, she is totally a badass.
08:30God, this is gonna make me cry.
08:32I, I'm, oh my god.
08:34And you will be the next badass.
08:41Zach, both you and Rosemary have lost your privileges for the week.
08:46Oh, I don't care.
08:50I want to talk to him right now.
08:51I'm gonna call him right when I leave here.
08:53I fell so madly in love with him and everyone on this set.
08:58I don't even remember seeing this movie.
09:01I think I saw it maybe once.
09:03But Zach totally changed my life.
09:07And I love him so, so much.
09:10We FaceTime all the time.
09:12I see him if he comes to LA, we see him.
09:15We're trying to develop a show for him because I just think he's
09:20a star and he is obsessed with acting.
09:23He loves it more than anything.
09:26And Bruce Dern is Bruce Dern.
09:28That's Bruce Dern.
09:29He was telling me how to do the scene, which I was like, I'm good, thanks.
09:34But, but it was, it was a trip.
09:38Is this what you gave to Rosemary to convince her to pretend to be choking?
09:42Yes, it is.
09:44It's really creative.
09:47Not just creative, it's genius.
09:50You know why?
09:50That's an advertisement for what he wants to do with the rest of his life.
09:55I just, I'm like, let's watch this.
09:56Let's all just come on and let's watch this movie.
09:59I was in a place in my life where I was resistant to working at all at that time.
10:04And it kind of saved me.
10:06I was, and I was in like a weird place.
10:08And I personally, and I, I didn't know what I wanted to do.
10:12And this group of dudes, like Zach and Shia and Mike and Tyler, the directors,
10:19they were like, just come with us.
10:21Just come to Savannah.
10:22And I was like, fuck it.
10:23And I did.
10:24And Zach and Shia and I spent like every moment of every day together and had the best time.
10:33And it just like exploded my heart.
10:36I've found sometimes when I'm resistant to doing something
10:40is when I should probably do it, especially when it comes to a job.
10:50Do you know what you look like right now?
10:53No.
10:55You look like the sweetest person ever.
10:58So Cooper wrote that about himself.
11:00Okay.
11:01He wrote this script.
11:03Just saying.
11:04Keep going.
11:05Have you ever been depressed?
11:06Whoa.
11:08Downer alert.
11:09You don't have to sound the downer alert.
11:13I'm just curious.
11:14I've always been depressed.
11:16Whoa.
11:17Downer alert.
11:21Before Lola was born.
11:23Especially before Lola was born.
11:25We talk about depression in a way that I think is very succinct.
11:29And I liked that a lot about this scene.
11:33He came to us saying that he wanted to meet with me and he met with Ro.
11:41I was filming The Lost Daughter at the time.
11:44And she was like, you got to watch this movie.
11:46And I met with this director.
11:48And he has an idea of a script called Cha Cha Real Smooth.
11:51And I was like, that's the best title I've ever heard in my life.
11:54So let's do it.
11:56And she was like, well, let's watch the movie first and meet him first.
11:58And I was like, right, right.
12:00That's very me.
12:01He's just super smart and talented and had a really great idea of a project.
12:11Yeah, it's super blue.
12:13How did that happen?
12:14Just normal.
12:16You want to know something?
12:19Yes.
12:20I'm having more fun now than I did the whole night.
12:24Did you have a bad night?
12:27No, it wasn't bad.
12:31Yeah, it was bad.
12:32Because we worked on it a lot together, especially our dialogue together,
12:37we would rewrite it together in the mornings and make sure that it sounded the way it did
12:43and felt really natural and in the sort of cadence of the movie.
12:47It was scripted to sound unscripted.
12:49It was very like a sibling dynamic.
12:53So there was a little bit of like, we can't do it that way.
12:57Or like, that's not actually safe or legal or things like that.
13:01But beyond that, it was just fun.
13:12Oh my God, no.
13:15I want to die right now.
13:17I want to disappear.
13:18I do want to take these though, because they look cool and make me feel cool.
13:22Well, I would also take these.
13:24These are great.
13:25So I'm just gonna take these and go.
13:28Turn it off.
13:29Get it out of here.