Dakota Johnson Remembers Being Called 'Pompous' for Shaking Hands in a Failed Audition: 'I Just Had Manners' Jack SmartMon, March 30, 2026 at 8:52 PM UTC 0 Dakota Johnson in December 2025Credit: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Dakota Johnson recalled a failed audition Shaking the hands of everyone in the room and introducing herself, she said, had the auditioners thinking she was "pompous" and "full of myself" "I just had manners," quipped the Splitsville star in a new radio interview Dakota Johnson's politeness may have cost her an acting job.
Dakota Johnson Remembers Being Called 'Pompous' for Shaking Hands in a Failed Audition: 'I Just Had Manners'
Jack SmartMon, March 30, 2026 at 8:52 PM UTC
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Dakota Johnson in December 2025Credit: Tim P. Whitby/Getty -
Dakota Johnson recalled a failed audition
Shaking the hands of everyone in the room and introducing herself, she said, had the auditioners thinking she was "pompous" and "full of myself"
"I just had manners," quipped the Splitsville star in a new radio interview
Dakota Johnson's politeness may have cost her an acting job.
In a Hits Radio interview posted on March 23, Johnson, 36, remembered a callback audition in which she greeted everyone in the room — a move that the powers that be evidently misread.
"I went into the room and I shook everyone's hand and introduced myself," said the Materialists star of the audition (for a project that was left unspecified). "And then I did the scene and I left. And the feedback I got was that because I had gone and introduced myself and shook everyone's hand, that I was, like, pompous, that I was schmoozing and full of myself."
Said feedback baffled Johnson, as she recalled. "I was like, what? I didn't get the job because they said that I was being cocky."
Dakota Johnson on Jan. 28Credit: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty
Her take on the "pretty crazy" situation? "I just had manners."
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Johnson appeared on Hits Radio to promote the UK release of her new movie Splitsville, released stateside in September. In the Michael Angelo Covino-directed romantic drama-comedy about marriage mishaps, Johnson stars alongside Adria Arjona, Kyle Marvin, Nicholas Braun, David Castañeda, O-T Fagbenle and Covino.
"Sometimes it's nice to play people who are deeply unhappy and messy," Johnson said of playing Julie in the film. "People really identify with the messiness. And it's so funny to me... I like that people are like, 'Ooh, I like this movie because it's real.' "
Among Johnson's upcoming screen projects is Verity, the Michael Showalter-directed adaptation of Colleen Hoover's hit novel of the same name. Johnson plays Lowen Ashleigh alongside Anne Hathaway as Verity Crawford and Josh Hartnett as Jeremy Crawford.
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Published: March 31, 2026 at 12:00AM on Source: RON MAG
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