Consider Dakota Johnson one lucky lady – who’s also not a fan of “cancel culture.”
The award-winning actress, famous for her breakout role in “50 Shades of Grey,” is opening up about working with some of Hollywood’s most notorious bad boys.
In a new interview, Johnson commented on the serious allegations lodged against Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer and Shia LaBeouf.
Maybe because she’s considered Hollywood royalty, the Austin, Texas-born daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith said she never had a problem with any of her former co-stars.
“I never experienced that firsthand from any of those people,” Johnson told The Hollywood Reporter. “I had an incredible time working with them.”
Before the astronomical success of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Johnson appeared in Scott Cooper’s “Black Mass,” a 2015 biographical drama where Depp starred as mobster Whitey Bulger.
In May 2016, the “21 Jump Street” alum’s estranged wife Amber Heard sought a domestic violence restraining order, accusing him of abuse, which he denied. The former couple settled their divorce out of court in August 2016 with a reported $7 million payment to Heard.
In 2019, Johnson starred opposite Shia LaBeouf in “The Peanut Butter Falcon.”
The 35-year-old former Disney Channel star is currently facing a lawsuit brought on by ex-girlfriend, FKA Twigs, in which she claims he sexually and physically assaulted and battered her, and knowingly gave her a sexually transmitted disease.
Also that year, Johnson co-starred with Hammer in the Babak Anvari-helmed psychological horror film “Wounds.” Earlier this year, two women, including ex-girlfriend Paige Lorenze, came forward with serious accusations against him, claiming the actor harbored fantasies involving cannibalism.
Following those claims, a 24-year-old woman claimed that the 6-foot-5 “Call Me By Your Name” star “violently” raped her for several hours on April 24, 2017, and that she believed he was going to murder her.
The careers of these three actors – considered heartthrobs by many – have derailed amid the #MeToo movement and the subsequent so-called “cancel cuture.”
Of that, Johnson commented: “I feel sad for the loss of great artists. I feel sad for people needing help and perhaps not getting it in time.”
“I feel sad for anyone who was harmed or hurt,” she added. “It’s just really sad.”
The 32-year-old partner of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said she believed that people can change.
“I want to believe in the power of a human being to change and evolve and get help and help other people,” she shared. “I think there’s definitely a major overcorrection happening. But I do believe that there’s a way for the pendulum to find the middle.”
Admitting that “cancel culture is such a f---ing downer” and how she hates the term, Johnson believes change should happen in Hollywood.
“The way that studios have been run up until now, and still now, is behind,” she opined. “It is such an antiquated mindset of what movies should be made, who should be in them, how much people should get paid, what equality and diversity look like. Sometimes the old school needs to be moved out for the new school to come in.”
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