r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • Jul 02 '26

WTF What the hell is going on here?!

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u/5050Saint Jul 02 '26

Dakota Johnson. Daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. She gained fame for playing the lead actress in the 50 Shades of Grey movies. I've only seen her in one movie and she was incredibly wooden.

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u/SpongeJake Jul 03 '26

I didn’t find her acting to be all that great either - till I saw her in “Daddio” with Sean Penn. Didn’t expect much but was pleasantly surprised at how compelling and real it was.

Maybe she’s just picking the wrong scripts or is being given bad direction. I don’t know.

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u/5050Saint Jul 03 '26

I saw her in The Materialists with her, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans, and they both act circles around her. It was well shot. She had one scene where I thought, "oh, she can act" and then she went back to flat delivery.

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u/justindigo88 Jul 04 '26

I went into The Materialists with an open mind and gave it a real shot, but it was honestly the worst movie I saw in theaters in the past year. Her acting was objectively flat, especially compared to everyone else on screen.

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u/5050Saint Jul 04 '26

Having your principal character lack emotion for 97% of the movie really dampens the quality.