Dakota Johnson Delivers Damning Diagnosis On Hollywood’s Risk-Aversion: “It’s All A Bit Of A Mess”

Dakota Johnson didn’t hold back during her Hot Ones interview, calling out Hollywood’s obsession with safe bets—think endless sequels and franchise reboots—instead of original stories. She’s promoting her new indie film Materialists, but her frustration with industry groupthink and lack of creative risk-taking took center stage. Basically, she’s saying the system’s broken, and it’s making movies feel stale.