{"id":554589,"date":"2026-03-30T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554589\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:39:08","slug":"dakota-johnson-says-worst-audition-was-being-slammed-for-shaking-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554589\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Johnson Says Worst Audition Was Being Slammed for Shaking Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDakota Johnson<\/a> revealed during a recent interview on Hits Radio while promoting the U.K. release of \u201cSplitsville<\/a>\u201d that she once failed an audition simply for shaking the hands of the creative team when she entered the room. The actor was just trying to be polite ahead of reading her lines. She was later told that she was \u201cpompous\u201d and \u201ccocky.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI had an audition once, and it was a callback, and I went into the room, and I shook everyone\u2019s hand and introduced myself. Then I did the scene, and I left,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThe feedback I got was that because I had gone and introduced myself and shook everyone\u2019s hand is that I was pompous. That I was schmoozing, and I was full of myself, and I was like: \u2018What?\u2019 I didn\u2019t get the job because they said that I was being cocky, but I just had manners\u2026 It was pretty crazy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tJohnson\u2019s dark comedy \u201cSplitsville\u201d premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year before opening in the U.S. in late August from Neon. Not only does Johnson star in the film but she also produced it through TeaTime Pictures, the production banner she co-founded with Ro Donnelly.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo much of why I wanted to start a production company and make my own movies is because I want more from this industry,\u201d Johnson told Variety in Cannes<\/a> last year. \u201cI want more from my experience as an artist. I felt so thirsty for more conversation and more creativity and more collaboration. I found myself as an actor, a few times, showing up to the premiere of a movie to see it the first time and saying, \u2018Woah. That is not what I thought we were making.\u2019 That is such a weird thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSplitsville,\u201d directed by \u201cThe Climb\u201d helmer Michael Angelo Covino, centers on two couples whose friendships are upended when the husband of a divorcing couple sleeps with the wife of an open marriage couple. Adria Arjona co-stars alongside director Covino and co-writer Kyle Marvin.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe way that we build our sets is really vibe based. Energy based,\u201d Johnson also noted. \u201cIt\u2019s very much a no asshole policy. The other thing is that we really ensure that every person on the crew knows what we are making, so everybody feels a part of it. Working in movies\u2026 the hours are long and it\u2019s grueling. It\u2019s not comfortable. It\u2019s not nice. When you feel like you\u2019re genuinely invested in something, people are happier and they work better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Johnson\u2019s Hits Radio interview in the video below. \u201cSplitsville\u201d is now playing in U.K. theaters and is available to stream in the U.S. on Hulu.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dakota Johnson revealed during a recent interview on Hits Radio while promoting the U.K. release of \u201cSplitsville\u201d that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,55688,88,246456],"class_list":{"0":"post-554589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dakota-johnson","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-splitsville"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}