Dakota Johnson defined why her time on The Office wasn’t the dream job she’d been hoping for.
Before the Fifty Shades Of Grey motion pictures launched her to world fame, Dakota — like a ton of different well-known actors — had the chance to look as a visitor star on The Office.
Starring the likes of Steve Carell, John Krasinski, and Rainn Wilson, the hit NBC present premiered in 2005 and aired for 14 seasons — though it wasn’t till the final episode that Dakota was requested to make her temporary cameo.
Despite being an enormous fan of the present on the time, Dakota candidly revealed throughout a latest look on Late Night With Seth Meyers that her stint at Dunder Mifflin was fairly depressing.
“That was honestly the worst time of my life,” she informed the host, earlier than explaining how the visitor position took place.
“I loved that show so much,” she stated. “They were like, ‘Do you want to be in the series finale?’”
Dakota recalled that she’d excitedly accepted the supply pondering she’d “show up for like half a day” and have a enjoyable time. However, it wound up being much more work than she anticipated.
“I was there for two weeks,” she stated, “and I’m barely in the fucking show.”
Aside from her restricted display screen time, Dakota additionally remembered that the vibes on the set had been very awkward too, revealing that a number of the solid members weren’t even talking to one another by this level within the present’s run.
“There were weird dynamics that had been going on for the last 10 years. Some people didn’t speak to each other,” she recalled, with out naming any names.
“And I’m coming in like, ‘So excited to be here!’ And no one wanted to talk to me. No one gave a fuck,” she added. “I was like in the background of all of these scenes, faxing things.”
In an try to make her really feel higher, Seth — who additionally appeared briefly within the last episode of The Office — jumped in to reward her faxing expertise, describing it as “some of the most believable faxing I’ve ever seen.”
Dakota’s latest admission about The Office comes as simply one other candid confession on the press tour for her new film, Madame Webb, which hits theaters on Feb. 14.
As properly as admitting that she didn’t know if the movie would “be good at all” whereas she was capturing it, Dakota just lately weighed in on the unending debate about “nepo babies” in Hollywood.
“When that first started I found it to be incredibly annoying and boring,” stated the actor, whose dad and mom are Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. “If you’re a journalist, then write about something else. That’s just lame.”
In one other interview with L’Officiel, she additionally appeared again on her viral interview with Ellen DeGeneres in 2019, the place she uncovered the host for seemingly mendacity about not getting an invitation to her thirtieth celebration by saying on air: “That’s not the truth, Ellen.”
Of the notorious alternate, she stated: “It will haunt me.”
Stay retaining it actual, Dakota.
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