Dakota Johnson Rewatches The Social Network, Suspiria, The Peanut Butter Falcon & More

I was with my mom and we were meeting Barack Obama

and it was a huge deal.

He was talking to her and she goes,

Oh, Mr. President, this is my daughter.

She's just did a movie.

She's an actress too. She was in 'The Social Network,'

She's in her underwear.

And I died. I died inside.

Hi, I'm Dakota Johnson

and I'm gonna be watching some scenes

from throughout my career it seems,

and I'm sweating.

So let's go.

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[Sean] Okay.

You don't know my name, do you?

Is it Stanford?

I should just kick your ass.

How do you go to a party and you meet someone...

Amelia Ritter. But you prefer Amy.

You're from Orinda, your father's in commercial real estate

and your mother's 10 years sober.

I think that

because this was The Social Network

and David Fincher, we did this so many times

that I'm like, I'm in it.

I know it. I know all the lines.

It's still there.

We did it so many times that I feel like I remember this

and it's happening now.

Maybe I was traumatized.

Next.

[Amelia speaking French]

And there I am speaking French.

Your major's French. And yours?

Mine? I don't have one.

[Amelia] You haven't declared?

I don't go to school. You're kidding.

No. Well,

where did you go to school?

William Taft Elementary for a little while.

Seriously, you are not like 15 years old

or anything, are you?

No.

[Interviewer] Do you have any preconceived ideas

about Justin Timberlake before doing this scene?

Are you kidding?

I was just like 19 and straddling Justin Timberlake

and like whipping him in the face with my hair.

100% had preconceived notions, but he was lovely and kind

and really, you know, welcoming

for a person that was just a stranger.

I was not allowed to keep them

unfortunately.

They're a good little booty short.

One time I was with my mom and we were meeting Barack Obama

and it was a huge deal.

He was talking to her and she goes,

Oh, Mr. President, this is my daughter.

She's just did a movie.

She's an actress too.

She was in 'The Social Network,' she's in her underwear.

And I died. I died inside.

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When you dance the dance of another,

you make yourself in the image of its creator.

Tilda.

I just texted with Tilda, just now.

You're in a company now.

You have to find your right place.

You have to decide

what is it you want to be for this company.

God, I loved making this movie so much.

I really miss it.

We were filming on the top of a mountain

in the north of Italy in a town called Varese

and in this abandoned hotel,

and it was like a cast of 40 women.

And it was just amazing

and so strange and weird.

And the hotel that we were filming in

had all of these electrical towers,

'cause it was like the hub for the electricity of the town.

It's like where everyone got their cell service

and it made everyone act really strange

and everyone was shocking each other all the time.

And you'd have to constantly wash your hands

to get like the electricity out of your body.

And it was a beautiful building

and you'd do what you gotta do to make a beautiful movie.

[Helena] Higher. Higher.

Higher. Higher.

Higher.

Higher.

We did like months of training for Suspiria

for all of the dancing.

I did all of my own dancing

apart from like a couple of things.

And there was two things that I couldn't do,

which was like a quadruple pirouette, obviously.

Who can?

These jumps we actually used, I think,

I'm pretty sure Luca used visual effects

to make them look crazy

'cause I can't do that.

Also, the floor of the dance studio

where we rehearsed was mapped out

sort of like a pentagram

and where the dancers were moving at certain times,

it was like a spell.

There's a lot of layers to this movie,

but the dancing was incredibly specific.

[Helena] Higher. Higher.

Higher.

Higher.

Higher.

I think we finished the movie

right before Christmas.

We were in such a world of our own and it was so weird

and there was like all...

So many weird objects on set

and I started having really crazy nightmares.

Not nightmares, but just scary dreams

that I was accepting

'cause it's kind of a scary movie.

So when I got home I had to do a lot of like,

I mean it sounds really woo-woo,

but I had to do a lot of like cleansing and saging

and kind of like releasing any energies

that had sort of latched on to me.

I'm that person.

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I've been following you for like 10 minutes.

Yeah, you said. Is everything okay?

I love her so much.

Your number came up on my phone yesterday.

You called me?

I did.

I mean, Olivia's the best person on the planet

and the best actress.

And working with her, every single take

was delicious and vibrant,

and so alive.

And she's like a really electric artist.

Nina has a really special part

of my heart and my mind.

She's kind of this like hardened, young,

broken woman and it's heartbreaking,

but you feel like she's gonna be okay.

Like she'd kill somebody if she had to,

but she was fine.

I know you saw me with a Will.

I don't want you to think badly of me.

I don't think badly of anyone.

Yeah. Yeah.

See, I knew that.

As soon as I saw you, I just, I was like,

I wanna be like that lady.

This was an interesting dynamic, just trying to figure out

how these two women could see themselves in each other.

This like, the struggle of being a mother

and being an individual and being a woman

and having dreams and having a life of your own

and then feeling like it's being

sucked out of you

and still trying to maintain a glimmer of composure

and grace and also, you know, immense love

for your own child.

So, you know, it's kind of a dynamic

between two mothers

with incredibly complex relationships

with being mothers.

Shit.

It won't stay on.

Oh hey.

Can I?

My grandma used to use hat pins. It won't fall off now.

I have taken things from all directors

that I've worked with and not taken things

and learned what I like and what I don't like.

But Maggie made me feel

in terms of directing my own stuff,

like it's okay to want to do that

'cause maybe there's a part of me that's like, well,

I can't do that because I'm an actress but I can.

And I would love to.

Her bravery and her sort of just like, Fuck it.

I'm gonna make this exactly what it is in my mind.

And the confidence in that

is so inspiring.

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I love Salt Water Redneck as he is my hero

and he is totally a badass.

God. This is gonna make me cry.

I'm...

Oh my God.

[Carl] And you will be the next badass.

[Eleanor] Zak,

both you and Rosemary have lost your privileges

for the week.

Oh, I really don't care.

[laughing] I wanna talk to him right now.

I'm gonna call him right when I leave here.

I felt so madly in love with him

and everyone on this set.

I don't even remember seeing this movie.

I think I saw it maybe once,

but Zach totally changed my life

and I love him so, so much.

We FaceTime all the time.

I see him, if he comes to LA, we see him.

We're trying to develop a show for him

because I just think he is a star

and he is obsessed with acting.

He loves it more than anything.

And Bruce Dern is Bruce Dern.

That's Bruce Dern.

He was telling me how to do the scene,

which I was like, I'm good, thanks.

But it was a trip.

Is this what you gave to Rosemary to convince her

to pretend to be choking?

Yes, it is. It's really creative.

Thank you.

Not just creative. It's genius.

You know why?

That's an advertisement for what he wants to do

with the rest of his life.

I'm like, Let's watch this.

Let's all just come on and let's watch this movie.

I was in a place in my life where I was resistant

to working at all at that time and it kind of saved me.

I was in like a weird place, personally,

and I didn't know what I wanted to do.

And this group of dudes like Zach and Shia

and Mike and Tyler, the directors, they were like,

Just come with us.

Just come to Savannah.

And I was like, Fuck it.

And I did.

And Zach and Shia and I spent like every moment

of every day together

and had the best time

and it just like exploded my heart.

I've found sometimes

when I'm resistant

to doing something is when I should probably do it.

Especially when it comes to a job.

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Do you know what you look like right now?

No.

You look like the sweetest person ever.

So Cooper wrote that about himself.

[Andrew] You know what you

look like right now. Okay?

He wrote this script. Just saying.

Keep going.

Have you ever been depressed?

Whoa. Downer alert.

You don't have to sound a downer alert.

I'm just curious.

I've always been depressed.

Whoa. Downer alert.

Before Lola was born?

Especially before Lola was born.

We talk about depression in a way

that I think is very succinct.

And I liked that a lot about this scene.

He came to us

saying that he wanted to meet with me

and he met with Roe.

I was filming The Lost Daughter at the time,

and she was like, you gotta watch this movie.

And I met with this director

and he has an idea of a script called Cha Cha Real Smooth.

And I was like,

That's the best title I've heard in my life,

so let's do it.

And she was like, Well let's watch the movie first

and meet him first.

And I was like, Right, right.

That's very me.

He's just super smart and talented

and had a really great idea

of a project.

Yeah, it's super blue.

How did that happen?

Just normal.

You wanna know something?

Yes.

I'm having more fun now than I did the whole night.

Did you have a bad night?

No, it wasn't bad.

Yeah, it was bad.

Because we worked on it a lot together.

Especially our dialogue together.

We would rewrite it together in the mornings

and make sure that it sounded the way it did

and felt really natural

and in the sort of cadence of the movie.

It was scripted to sound unscripted.

It was very like a sibling dynamic.

So there was a little bit of like,

We can't do it that way.

Or like, That's not actually safe or legal,

or things like that.

But beyond that it was just fun.

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[Interviewer] How does this feel, rewatching your stuff?

Is this something you typically do?

Oh my God, no.

I wouldn't, I wanna die right now.

I wanna disappear, but I do wanna take these though

because they look cool and make me feel cool.

Well I would also take these,

these are great.

So I'm just gonna take these and go.

Turn it off. Get it outta here.

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