‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Dakota Johnson Reunites With Parents In SNL, Actress Criticized Over ISIL Skit
Hot rising star Dakota Johnson is causing controversies over her last weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” hosting gig as she mocked her “Fifty Shades of Grey” role and received mix reviews for her appearance. The actress was joined by her parents, Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, as they sat with the audience.
"For those of you who don't know me, I'm currently starring in “Fifty Shades of Grey,” she told the audience. Fifty Shades of Grey is the novel that made you never want to touch your mother’s Kindle again.
After her controversial movie was released, the actress quipped that her dry cleaner refuses to look her in the eye and her dog walker winks at her when she takes her dog’s leash off the wall. She also revealed that her parents refused to watch her smash erotic movie with Jamie Dornan and finally know the reason why.
With his hands shielding his eyes, Don Johnson shouted from the audience saying, “That’s because we were afraid you were going to be naked!”
The 25-year-old star also shared a little bit of her family history when her mother hosted the show in 1998 and her father proposed to her for the second time after the show. She was born nine months after the proposal where she joked about her parents conceiving her the night after show or even during the show.
But it was about her ISIL skit that provoked a lot of backlash on social media where she spoofed a car advertisement, for the Toyota Camry. The skit features a father dropping his teenage daughter off the airport but instead of using the car she boarded a truck with masked men with machine guns.
She then winked to her father and told him, “Dad, it’s just Isis (Isil).”
The controversial sketch was broadcast a week before three schoolgirls from London went missing and was believed that they ran away to join the rebel group. There are nearly 20 teenage girl have travelled to Syria to join Isil in the past year, according to U.K.’s senior counter-terrorism officers.
Some viewers described that sketch as in “maybe the most unfunny SNL piece of all time” while one suggested that writers had become “desensitised.” Taran Killam, SNL’s cast member and Johnson’s father in the skit, was proud of their last weekend’s show and tweeted that the “Freedom to mock is our greatest weapon.”
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