Dakota Johnson looked back on her cameo in The Office, saying that she had “the worst time” filming the comedy series: “No one wanted to talk to me.”
Back in 2013, the Madame Web actress guest starred on the NBC series finale, playing an accountant named Dakota who replaces Kevin (Brian Baumgartner) at Dunder Mifflin. Though Dakota was a huge fan of the show at the time, she did not enjoy the filming experience one bit.
“That was honestly the worst time of my life,” she shared during her Feb. 8 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. “They were like, ‘Do you want to be in the series finale?’ And I was like, ‘Of course,’ thinking that I’d show up for like half a day. I was there for two weeks. And I’m barely in the f–king show.”
Moreover, the 34-year-old felt there were “weird dynamics that had been going on for the last 10 years” on set.
“Some people didn’t speak to each other,” Dakota continued. “No one wanted to talk to me. No one gave a f–k.”
Other celebs who made appearances in the finale included Rachael Harris, Joan Cusack, Ed Begley Jr. and—yes—even Seth Meyers himself.
“Look, it’s the f–king Office‘s fault,” Seth told Dakota after hearing about her set experience. “It’s not your fault.”
Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty ImagesAnd the Fifty Shades of Grey alum agreed. As Dakota quipped back, “It’s their fault.”
But this wasn’t the first time she got candid on a talk show. Keep reading for some of Dakota’s most realest moments and OMG confessions.
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Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Global CitizenQueen of Truth
In perhaps one of her most infamous TV moments, Dakota Johnson called out Ellen DeGeneres for not attending her 30th birthday party.
After the comedian joked on a 2019 episode of her eponymous talk show that she “wasn’t invited,” Dakota dryly retorted, “Actually, no—that’s not the truth, Ellen.”
The actress proceeded to point out that Ellen gave her “a bunch of s–t” the last time she was on the show about not being invited, so Dakota made sure she was included on the guest list this time around.
“I didn’t even know you liked me,” Dakota told Ellen. “I did invite you, but you didn’t come.”
Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty ImagesViral Fame
When asked about the viral Ellen interview four years later, Dakota simply told L’Officiel, “It will haunt me.”
Dave M. Benett/WireImageFifty Shades of Candid
Dakota got very candid about her experience filming the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise years after its final movie, revealing that author E.L. James “had a lot of creative control” and “demanded that certain things happen.”
“There were parts of the books that just wouldn’t work in a movie, like the inner monologue, which was at times incredibly cheesy,” she told Vanity Fair in 2022, explaining how the writer often clashed with the studio and the director. “It was like mayhem all the time.”
In fact, Dakota believes no one would’ve signed onto the project if they “had known at the time that’s what it was going to be like.”
As she noted, “It would’ve been like, ‘Oh, this is psychotic.'”
E.L. has not publicly responded to Dakota’s comments.
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesLime Lie
Who knew an innocent comment about limes would go viral? But that was what happened to Dakota after her 2020 house tour with Architectural Digest, during which she pointed to a bowl of limes in her kitchen and raved, “I love limes. I love them so much. They’re great, and I like to present them like this in my house.”
However, Dakota later admitted that it was all “set dressing.”
“I’m actually allergic to limes,” she confessed during a 2021 appearance on The Tonight Show. “So, I lied.”
Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Sony PicturesCaught in a Web of Memes
When the first trailer of Madame Web dropped in November 2023, the internet became fascinated with Dakota’s monotonous delivery of the line: “He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died.”
Though the phrase quickly became a meme across the web, it failed to ensnare Dakota’s attention—subsequently leading to another meme-able moment when she later expressed her confusion over its popularity.
“Why did that go viral?” she stoically asked an interviewer who mentioned the meme. “I have no idea what that’s about.”
Dakota added of her viral line, “That seems like a basic storyline to me.”
Jamie McCarthy/Getty ImagesNope on the Nepo Baby Debate
Dakota—who is the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson—didn’t hold back her thoughts on Hollywood’s nepo baby debate, telling Today in a February 2024 interview, “When that first started, I found it to be incredibly annoying and boring.”
