Dakota Johnson on the Harrowing Experience of Watching Her Parents Have Sex on Screen
Scarred for life.
Did you know there's a website where you can type in the title of a movie you're about to watch with your parents so an unexpected sex scene doesn't pop up and make everyone really squirmy/decide it's time for a bathroom break? Too bad there wasn't an IRL one for Dakota Johnson when she was growing up.
In the cover story for the latest issue of Net-a-Porter's Edit magazine, the How to Be Single actress and master wardrobe-malfunction handler recalled how, as a child, she'd accompany her parents Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson on movie sets.
"I was around for a lot of it and I would watch them," she said. "But there were also things I could see that I didn't want to, like watch my parents have sex with other people. And there was a scene where my mom got slapped in the face. I lost my mind! I couldn't deal with that at all."
At least Johnson's mom had the grace to skip Fifty Shades? ::shudders::
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Chelsea Peng is a writer and editor who was formerly the assistant editor at Marie Claire. She's also worked for The Strategist and Refinery29, and is a graduate of Northwestern University. On her tombstone, she would like a GIF of herself that's better than the one that already exists on the Internet and a free fro-yo machine. Besides frozen dairy products, she's into pirates, carbs, Balzac, and snacking so hard she has to go lie down.