Dakota Johnson and Madonna are friends? Evidently. Though the two celebrities might seem to have nothing in common, their friendship goes back a long way. Speaking to E! News recently, Johnson talked about her relationship with the singer, who is thirty-two years her senior. “I really love her,” Johnson said. “We’ve been, like, weird friends for a while.”
The Materialists star added that she and Madonna first met on the set of the musical Evita. Released in 1996, the film starred the singer and Antonio Banderas—who was married to Dakota Johnson’s mother, Melanie Griffith, at the time.
“I met her when I was really young, because she did a movie with my stepfather,” Johnson continued, “and then I got to know her later because we were gonna work together on something.” It seems that project never got out of the development stage, but that hasn’t changed the nature of their relationship in the slightest. Just last month, Johnson and Madonna spent an evening together celebrating the birthday of Maha Dakhil, their joint agent. “We’ve always kind of circled each other, but she is like an energy to be near that is so beautiful and so wild,” said Johnson. æIt’s just cool that she even wants to talk to me.”
Dakota Johnson’s relationship with Madonna is on par with other unexpected friendships in Hollywood, like Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart or Helen Mirren and Vin Diesel. The latter two met in 2017 on the set of Fast and Furious 8, before reuniting in three other installments of the saga. “I am blessed that she is a part of our mythology… but even more grateful that she is a part of my family off screen,” Diesel said on Instagram at the time.
Original story in VF Italy.
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