Dakota Johnsonmay be Hollywood royalty, but that doesn't mean her celebrity parents are against giving their daughter a dose of reality. In a new discussion with herMaterialistsco-starPedro PascalforElle UK, theFifty Shades of Greystar, 35, shared that she was cut off by her father when she didn't get into Juilliard. Her father, of course, is legendaryMiami VicestarDon Johnson, while her mom isMelanie Griffith. "I didn't get in and my dad cut me off because I didn't go to college. So, I started auditioning. I think I was 19 when I didThe Social Network, and then little jobs and stuff after that." Johnson shared of the prestigious acting institution. "For a couple of years, it was hard to make money. There were a few times when I'd go to the market and not have money in my bank account or not be able to pay rent, and I'd have to ask my parents for help." 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 "I'm very grateful that I had parents that could help me and did help me. But it certainly was not fun," she continued. "The auditioning process, as you know, is the f---ing worst." Related: Antonio Banderas Shares Rare Photo of Reunion With Stepdaughter Dakota Johnson Johnson continued by elaborating on what it was like to bare her soul in auditions, which she referred to as "awful and terrifying." "When you get accepted for an audition, it's a two-day-long chorus-line thing. You're supposed to get called back for a second audition, and I didn't. It was fine." However, things ended up working out for Johnson in the end, since she "really didn't want to go to college." "And because Juilliard felt so small – the idea of being in a classroom with the same group of people, and figuring out how to be a human in that environment, after growing up surrounded by so many different kinds of people and immersed in different cultures through traveling all over… It just felt really wrong to lock myself in one place," Johnson concluded. Of course, Johnson scored her breakout role as Anastasia Steele in 2015'sFifty Shades, and never had to look back.
