Dakota Johnson's role on the social network led to an embarrassing conflict with Obama

After the blockbuster Fifty shades of gray Franchise, Dakota Johnson is used to showing some skin on screen. Are you talking to the President of the United States about this fact? Not so much. As she revisits roles from her career Vanity Fair'S Scene selection In the video series, Johnson recalled her mother's time, an Oscar-nominated actress Melanie Griffith, embarrassingly referred to her revealing scene opposite Justin Timberlake In David Fincher'S The social network.

“Once I was with my mother and we met Barack Obama, and it was a huge deal,” Johnson says VF. “He was talking to her and she said, 'Oh, Mr. President, that's my daughter.' She just made a film. She is also an actress. She was inside The social network. She's wearing underwear.' And I died. I died inside.”

While Johnson's work often makes headlines – and potentially shocks world leaders – “I've sometimes found that if I'm opposed to it, I should do something,” she says, “especially when it's about one Job goes.”

This was true for her 2019 indie film The peanut butter hawk, in which Johnson fell “madly” in love with the creative team, including her co-star Zack Gottsagen, for which, as she says, she is developing a project. Johnson was offered the opportunity to play a social worker who cares for Gottsagen's character during a “strange” time for her personally. “I was at a point in my life at the time where I didn’t want to work at all,” she remembers, “and that kind of saved me.”

Now Johnson is making her directorial debut – a short film called “ Loser baby written by and with Ghosts' Talia Bernstein, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. She's learned something from all of her previous filmmakers, but Johnson says this is it Maggie Gyllenhaal– an actress-turned-director herself who cast Johnson The Prodigal Daughter– which offered special inspiration. “In terms of directing my own stuff, Maggie made me feel like it was OK to want to do that,” she says. “Maybe there's a part of me that thinks, 'I can't do this because I'm an actress, but I can do it and I'd love to do it.' Your courage and Fuck it, I'll do exactly what's on my mind (Attitude), and the confidence in that is so inspiring.”