"The people who run streaming platforms don’t trust creative people or artists to know what’s going to work, and that is just going to make us implode,"
She’s right.
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"The people who run streaming platforms don’t trust creative people or artists to know what’s going to work, and that is just going to make us implode,"
She’s right.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 6, 2024 11:34 PM |
Please tie up Miss Hedren's granddaughter and throw seagulls at her.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 8, 2024 1:38 AM |
She probably believes all these award shows are irrelevant and that daytime TV shouldn’t exist. When boomers die, mainstream entertainment will be lost. They’re trying to hold onto something that’s increasingly irrelevant.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 8, 2024 1:40 AM |
Award shows ARE irrelevant R2. There's no such thing as daytime TV now - TV is 24/7.
Like you say - time marches on and things change and adapt. Those that don't/can't adapt are left behind. This has always been the way.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 8, 2024 1:48 AM |
Funny, I saw her on Kelly and Mark today and was thinking the same thing about her. She has zero personality.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 8, 2024 1:49 AM |
The ultimate nepo baby. Her grandmother, mother, father, and stepfather are all famous actors.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 8, 2024 1:51 AM |
She always looks like she just ate a lemon or smelled a fart in a crowded elevator.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 8, 2024 2:09 AM |
Nepo baby sez what?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 8, 2024 2:10 AM |
I know DL seems to hate her, but Dakota is one of the few nepo babies I like. I don't think she's particularly talented, but she's a passable enough actress and doesn't come across as a stuck-up Hollywood twat. In interviews I've seen with her, she seems like a genuine person with thoughts and feelings. Despite coming from Hollywood royalty, she strikes me as the type who could handle herself around "regular" people. Her mother has that same quality. Melanie seems like the kind of bitch who would smoke a cigarette and have a conversation with a homeless person. I think it ultimately just boils down to the fact that they have human empathy, and you can tell. When you compare her to the real loathsome, entitled nepo cunts of Hollywood (the heinous Emma Roberts comes to mind), Dakota looks like a saint.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 8, 2024 2:18 AM |
Dakota beheaded Ellen on her own talk slow and that caused the avalanche that wrecked Ellen’s career, so think we all can be grateful to Dakota for that.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 8, 2024 2:23 AM |
[quote] I don't think she's particularly talented, but she's a passable enough actress and doesn't come across as a stuck-up Hollywood twat
Have you seen Leslie Mann and herself cunting around in an interview with the hapless Alison Brie?
She’s awful.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 8, 2024 2:31 AM |
She’s right. I’m continually surprised by how likable and smart this nepo baby is.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 8, 2024 2:32 AM |
I don't think I've ever seen the bitch in anything. I certainly don't like her. I also can't help but always come back to the thought that she is brain damaged because her mother is such a notorious Coke whore.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 8, 2024 2:43 AM |
I like her. She called out Ellen. Her personality is dry that's her and she's likeable.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 8, 2024 2:55 AM |
Good for her.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 8, 2024 2:57 AM |
I forgot what Ellen did now R13? She was a high-riding cunt who was rude to everybody wasn't she?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 8, 2024 3:02 AM |
Hi Melanie @ r15
by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 8, 2024 3:09 AM |
While some could interpret this (wrongly I think) as cuntery, Dakota won me over years ago due to this genuine mother-daughter interaction. She didn’t even try to hide the fact that she was hurt by Melanie’s response—no fake smiling or attempt to play it off as a joke. It’s all there in her face. She wasn’t bratty or rude, but she held her ground. I appreciate that kind of candor, especially from a celebrity. It’s the same kind of frankness that she employed to wrangle ubercunt Ellen.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 8, 2024 3:21 AM |
“I invited you to my birthday, but you never came!” “I wasn’t invited.” “Yes you were!”
by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 8, 2024 4:15 AM |
50 Shades was fucking bleak.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | February 8, 2024 4:34 AM |
She's right about independent and "small films." They are still made in Europe, but the US seems to have thrown up its hands at anything that doesn't cost a national budget that's all but guaranteed to earn a bigger national budget. It's all shit from the US. unless it stands to make 100s of millions, no one can be bothered.
The streaming networks have filled some of the gap but the relative lack of interest and competition to make an excellent original film for not a lot of money shows all on fronts.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | February 8, 2024 6:17 AM |
Is there anything bleaker than a Dakota Johnson movie? Or performance?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | February 8, 2024 6:37 AM |
How this unattractive resting bitch face nepo baby has a career is a complete mystery. Her parents have a thousand times more charisma (and talent) than she could ever have. She thinks taking down Ellen (the only worthwhile things she’s done) makes her the Cassandra of Hollywood.
She needs to just disappear.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | February 8, 2024 2:08 PM |
R9 can you post the vid.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | February 8, 2024 2:26 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 24 | February 8, 2024 2:47 PM |
I think she's been good in the movies she made with Luca Guadagnino -- A Bigger Splash and the Suspiria re-do. And I liked her in The Lost Daughter. She definitely isn't good in the big Hollywood movies (Madmae Web looks like a total disaster) but she seems to know that - like her ability to call out BS when she sees it, she she can't seem to make herself care about shitty H'wood product (even while cashing the checks obviously). That seems to me why she's calling this out - she knows she can do good work but isn't getting the opportunity in Hollywood. Anyway yes I am clearly a fan - she's one of the better nepo-babies - in fact I think it's that H'wood royalty thing that gives her the freedom to openly talk shit like she does. She's using her priviledge for good!
by Anonymous | reply 25 | February 8, 2024 2:58 PM |
R22 you literally stated why she has a career while stating you don’t know why she has a career.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | February 8, 2024 3:32 PM |
Odd she didn’t inherit either of her parent’s good looks.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | February 8, 2024 6:03 PM |
One time I was tripping on mushrooms and decided to look at her Wikipedia page. There's something about her photo, all the wrinkles and frizzy hair. In my extremely altered state of mind I was convinced she's entirely made of frizzy hair.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | February 8, 2024 6:40 PM |
I like her personality. I’m not watching 50 Shades though
by Anonymous | reply 30 | February 8, 2024 8:36 PM |
I agree that Luca Guadagnino seems to know how to use her well. I thought she held her own in "Suspiria" and "A Bigger Splash". There is an earthy quality about her that I like—she doesn't look or act like your typical Hollywood starlet. She fits better in arthouse-leaning material, but the problem is those aren't going to pay the bills, hence the "Madame Web" role—which, let's face it, looks bad, but she also seems horribly miscast to me. It is clearly not a natural fit for her, but a girl's gotta work I guess.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | February 9, 2024 12:53 AM |
Liv Tyler 2.0
by Anonymous | reply 32 | February 9, 2024 1:04 AM |
She’s right.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | February 9, 2024 1:06 AM |
She doesn't have an art or indie quality either. She doesn't have much. She wasn't good in Suspiria, The Lost Daughter, or A Bigger Splash. It's C to C+ and anyone could have done it. Her name above the title of the spider woman thing looks ridiculous (and will the last time it ever happens), With her sorry bangs.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | February 9, 2024 1:09 AM |
You'd think she'd have been raised poor what with her parents sniffing all the coke.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | February 9, 2024 1:10 AM |
I think she’s right that streaming and movie studios are producing bland, generic output for the most part. But she is connected and could move into producing her own vehicles. But I don’t get a sense that she is particularly smart or motivated to work hard.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | February 9, 2024 1:17 AM |
[quote]"The people who run streaming platforms don’t trust creative people or artists to know what’s going to work, and that is just going to make us implode,"
She was right when money to produce shows and movies and limited distribution through theaters or broadcast tv created what little gating mechanism existed for "creatives" to work.
However, as these traditional gating mechanisms have ceased to exist AND the number of productions has exploded, forcing people to scramble for creatives, the door has opened to a great many creatives who simply, well, aren't.
Another factor whether people are willing to admit it or not is that talent is less important now than diversity. There are MANY exceptionally talented people, both men and women, of all races. However, when the search criteria excludes people for being the wrong gender or race, you are not getting the most talented people.
Combined, you cannot simply trust creatives to do the job.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | February 9, 2024 1:49 AM |
She’s a good egg. Loved her from the moment she called Ellen out on her bullshit.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | February 9, 2024 1:52 AM |
Yeah I never would have guessed that basket case Melanie f'ing Griffith would raise a kid who seems to have their head on their shoulders, but DJ really does seem to - maybe she was just forced to raise herself, or had a solid nanny
by Anonymous | reply 39 | February 9, 2024 2:59 AM |
She was with her father a lot.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | February 9, 2024 3:02 AM |
And she had a close relationship with her stepdad.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | February 9, 2024 3:02 AM |
While Melanie was born into Hollywood opulence, Don came from proper rural Missouri trash. His dad was a farmer and his mom a hairdresser. I get the impression that Dakota is very close to her dad and his side of the family. She mentioned in a late-night interview I saw once that she'd inherited her grandfather's beater F-150 after he died, and that her neighbors were upset by the fact that she had it parked on their street. She said that the truck was very sentimental to her and that she couldn't get rid of it.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | February 9, 2024 3:06 AM |
Farmer and hairdresser = trash???
by Anonymous | reply 43 | February 9, 2024 3:10 AM |
R43 Don was raised in an extremely abusive household in poverty, so I don't think "white trash" would be a stretch by most people's metrics. He has said his childhood was horrible. I am assuming he eventually reconciled with his father if Dakota was close enough to him to inherit his belongings after he died.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | February 9, 2024 3:20 AM |
Did she graduate from high school?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | February 9, 2024 3:35 AM |
R45 yea 🙄
by Anonymous | reply 46 | February 9, 2024 3:38 AM |
“After high school, she applied to Juilliard, performing monologues by Shakespeare and Steve Martin, but was not accepted.”
Harrumph.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | February 9, 2024 3:39 AM |
R47 where did you get that from? Shes been vocal about how she refused to go to college despite her father trying to force her to.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | February 9, 2024 3:45 AM |
Wikipedia
by Anonymous | reply 49 | February 9, 2024 3:47 AM |
"The internet’s favourite Hollywood actress Dakota Johnson has given a trainwreck interview in which she called cancel culture a “fucking downer” and defended the likes of Shia LaBeouf and Armie Hammer."
by Anonymous | reply 50 | February 9, 2024 3:54 AM |
What did Shia LaBeouf do?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | February 9, 2024 4:03 AM |
Besides those soft porn movies with Jamie Dornan, has she done anything of note?
by Anonymous | reply 52 | February 9, 2024 4:13 AM |
R50 I like her more.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | February 9, 2024 5:37 AM |
She seems quite dim. I don't think her "takedown" of Ellen was anything more than her earnestly trying to answer the questions and not going along with the deal you agree to when you go on those shows which is light and meaningless banter. She's never had to fight for her place in Hollywood like a lot of performers so takes it for granted and just stays whatever comes into her head.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | February 9, 2024 5:51 AM |
r54 i completely agree. I'm a fan of neither, but that is my take as well.
I also think she's rather underwhelming as an actress, but she has plenty of time to develop. And, of course, lots of name-nepo-recognition.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | February 9, 2024 6:10 AM |
So what? I want to see her spoiled self answer more questions not playing the game and giving a fuck, because she's a nepo baby and doesn't have to.
It worked for Carrie Fisher and Jamie Lee Curtis.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | February 10, 2024 1:30 AM |
MARY ^
by Anonymous | reply 57 | February 10, 2024 1:45 AM |
"I don't think she's particularly talented, but she's a passable enough actress"
If that isn't damning her with faint praise.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | February 10, 2024 2:16 AM |
She’ll change her tune once the adrenochrome kicks in.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | February 10, 2024 2:56 AM |
Is she referring to herself as an 'artist'?
by Anonymous | reply 60 | February 10, 2024 3:05 AM |
Yeah, r60. I also caught that and inwardly snickered.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | February 10, 2024 3:40 AM |
Dakota, championing the indie filmmakers.....because mainstream cinema has no use for her.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | February 10, 2024 9:59 AM |
It's amazing how ordinarily pretty she is - in the photo at OP she looks like a good-looking bank manager in a small town...or a hot realtor. She definitely has a future playing the White American everywoman.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | February 10, 2024 11:31 AM |
Everyone is currently talking about the movie Saltburn, an indie movie made by a privileged writer/director. Take a hint Dakota. Dakota could totally do a movie based on her family.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | February 10, 2024 1:09 PM |
R63 you describe her looks perfectly. She is pretty, but not in a "Hollywood" way; her beauty is more quotidian, not plasticky. I hope she doesn't go the same route as her mom and get a bunch of work done on her face in the decades to come.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | February 10, 2024 7:08 PM |
Maybe she could play lead in some 'indie' flick, directed by nepo Sofia Coppola who is also unhappy with how her career has turned out.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | February 10, 2024 7:31 PM |
R68 I like her taste as well and think the house is charming and elegant. I recall when that video was released many DLers claimed that she Airbnb-d the house and didn't actually live there—they seemed to think it was too pristine looking.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | February 10, 2024 8:15 PM |
Bring back Dakota Fanning.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 6, 2024 8:20 PM |
And yet she signed on to Madame Web?
by Anonymous | reply 71 | March 6, 2024 8:24 PM |
Almost every film Netflix launders bread for has the same template: limited color palette, ironic stories and smart-ass characters, dystopian sensibilities, and defeatism (with small wins to keep the plots moving).
No.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 6, 2024 8:46 PM |
R72 She’s prettier than her mom.
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