Dakota Johnson is looking back on an audition that didn’t lead to a job because she was too polite.
While promoting Splitsville in the UK, Johnson remembered she was called “pompous” and “cocky” for shaking everyone’s hands in the audition room.
“I had an audition once, and it was a callback, and I went into the room, and I shook everyone’s hand and introduced myself. Then I did the scene, and I left,” Johnson said on Hits Radio.
She continued, “The feedback I got was that because I had gone and introduced myself and shook everyone’s hand is that I was pompous. That I was schmoozing, and I was full of myself, and I was like: ‘What?’ I didn’t get the job because they said that I was being cocky, but I just had manners… It was pretty crazy.”
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Johnson stars in Splitsville, a comedy directed by Michael Angelo Covino that he co-wrote with Kyle Marvin. The film follows two couples whose friendship turns rocky when the husband of a divorcing couple sleeps with the wife of an open marriage couple.
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The Madame Web alum plays Julie and stars in the movie alongside Adria Arjona (Ashley), Kyle Marvin (Carey), and Michael Angelo Covino (Paul). Other actors in the film include Nicholas Braun, David Castañeda, O-T Fagbenle, Charlie Gillespie, Simon Webster, Nahéma Ricci, Tyrone Benskin, Letitia Brookes, Jessika Mathurin, and Stephen Adekolu.
