Dakota Johnson was drawn into Johnny Depp’s acrimonious defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard as a result of their collaboration on the 2015 film Black Mass. Johnson has clearly requested her fans that her name be kept out of the discussion.
Johnson has addressed the issue for the first time in a lengthy new interview for Vanity Fair. The said controversy was sparked by a YouTube video that has received over four million views. Depp’s bandaged middle finger, which was purportedly the consequence of an incident with Heard, was what drew Johnson into the conversation when she appeared in the promotional video with Depp for their 2015 film.
Dakota Johnson wants out of the whole controversy
Dakota Johnson was questioned candidly by Vanity Fair about whether she had seen the 2015 video, which just resurfaced and titled “The Exact Moment when Dakota Johnson Knew That Amber Heard was Violent towards Johnny Depp.“. To this, Johnson claimed that she was unaware of the whole situation and just wants out of the whole controversy.
“I was like, ‘For the love of God, why? Why am I involved in this?’ I don’t remember that at all, but please, take me out of this. Don’t let this go further. Can you imagine, oh, my God, if I was called to the witness stand?”
She added,
“I can’t believe that people are watching [the trial] like it’s a show. It’s like it’s a courtroom drama and my heart breaks. It’s so, so, so crazy. Humans are so f**king weird. The internet is a wild, wild place.”
Dakota Johnson and Johnny Depp are seen in the video sitting next to each other at a Black Mass promotional event while their director, Scott Cooper, speaks. They appeared to be discussing Depp’s injured finger, which was brought up extensively throughout the previous trial, and it looks like Johnson noticed it.
Dakota Johnson also talks about today’s “cancel culture”
The Fifty Shades actress also talked about the very prevalent trend in our society – “cancel culture”. Johnson expressed her dislike towards the term while discussing how humans are meant to make mistakes and the whole point of living is to figure everything out.
“What I struggle with in terms of cancel culture is the term ‘cancel culture’ — the whole concept behind canceling a human being, like they’re an appointment. No person will not make mistakes in their life. The point of being alive is figuring it out. Hurting other people, harming other people is not okay. There are consequences for those actions.”
Johnson also mentioned the concept of Twitterverse and how “horrifying and heartbreaking” the entire process of deciding someone’s existence is. Johnson expressed her faith in mankind and hopes that all such trends will eventually go away.
Source : Vanity Fair
