Dakota Johnson has an all-star family, born to actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Few people recognize her grandmother as Hollywood royalty Tippi Hedren, best known for starring in Alfred Hitchcock’s The birds. During the live recording of The Hollywood ReporterPodcast “Awards Chat”Johnson explains why she thinks Hedren wasn’t given more memorable roles then.
“She has always been honest and steadfast in standing up for herself. That’s what she did,” Johnson said of Hedren. “[Alfred] Hitchcock ruined her career because she didn’t want to sleep with him, and he terrorized her. He was never held accountable.”
She continued, “It is not entirely acceptable that people in positions of power use that power for someone in a weaker position, regardless of industry. It’s hard to talk about her because she’s my grandmother. You don’t want to imagine someone taking advantage of your grandma. “
Hedren allegedly in her 2016 memoir, Tippi, that she was sexually assaulted by the director while working with him in 1963 The birds and in 1964 Marnie. Among her accusations, she said he would not allow his driver to stop at her house and ask her to “touch him”, then attempt to forcibly kiss her. She Written, “It was a terrible, terrible moment.”
On the set of Marnie, he breaks into her dressing room and “puts his hand on” her. She said, “It’s sex, it’s perversion.”
Hedren never told anyone at the time because this type of behavior was not publicly discussed in the early 1960s and “sexual harassment and stalking are non-existent terms.”
Hedren has continued to work, but Johnson clearly thinks she deserves a more senior career.
“I think the thing that she’s been so great about to me and to my mom is like, no one can’t stand it — from anyone,” she said. “She would say it in a much more eloquent way. She’s still a glamorous movie star. “
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