Dakota Johnson made a funny quip about her raunchy screen past as she wore a red mini-dress for an appearance of Wednesday’s edition of The Late Late Show with James Corden.
The actress, 32, appeared a little self-conscious as she arrived on set wearing the sizzling scarlet number, crossing her legs and attempting to cover her thighs with her hands while sitting down opposite the British talk-show host, 43.
Corden graciously offered the screen star his jacket to protect her modesty, asking: ‘Are you okay? Are you alright? Do you want my jacket?’
The actress was presumably referring to her breakthrough role in the racy Fifty Shades erotic drama franchise, in which she portrayed Anastasia Steele opposite Jamie Dornan’s Christian Grey from 2015 to 2018.
Dakota also stripped off while filming semi-nude scenes for her 2021 drama The Lost Daughter, which is now on Netflix.
‘It is difficult. Some days, I don’t want to take off my clothes on set,’ she said in an interview with W Magazine this month.
‘Just because I look a certain way doesn’t mean I don’t have feelings. And my character, Nina, is almost bored by her appearance. She has reached a point in her life where her hotness doesn’t match who she is anymore.’
Dakota appeared naked in many of the Fifty Shades trilogy’s racy sex scenes, and refused to use a body double because she finds nudity ‘beautiful’.
‘No, because it would have felt like a cop-out if I did,’ she explained in 2017. ‘If I was going to do this job, I was going to do it 100 per cent and give it everything.
‘I wanted to be true and honest to the role, and the character. I don’t have a problem with nudity. I think it is beautiful and so I was OK with that.’
Dakota is the daughter of longtime Hollywood stars Don Johnson, 72, and Melanie Griffith, 64, and the granddaughter of Alfred Hitchcock heroine Tippi Hedren, 94.
