Dakota Johnson has said she loves Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow’s two children ‘like my life depends on it’.
In an interview with Bustle, the actress, 34, opened up about being a stepmom to Apple, 19, and Moses, 17, the teenage children Coldplay singer Chris shares with Gwyneth.
She also revealed she was ‘open’ to having children of her own if it was ‘meant’ to be.
‘I love those kids like my life depends on it. With all my heart,’ Dakota said of Apple and Moses.
As a member of a large blended family herself, Dakota – who was recently spotted in Malibu – has learned to embrace connections that aren’t blood-related.
Dakota Johnson has gushed about being a stepmother to Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow ‘s two children – and talked about being ‘open’ to starting a family of her own; pictured November 2023
When the reporter brought up a photo Gwyneth posted of her and Dakota, she said: ‘I grew up in a family that was so big, and I just believe in the saying “Blood is thicker than water,”‘ she explained.
‘The actual saying is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” which means that the connections with people you choose are more solid than the connections to the people you’re actually born to.’
Dakota’s parents are actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. They both split, with Don marrying Kelley Phleger in 1999 and Melanie tying the knot with Antonio Banderas in 1996. They divorced in 2015.
Now, Dakota is open to having children of her own.
‘I’m so open to that. I’ve gotten to this place where I really want to experience everything that life has to offer. And especially being a woman, I’m like, What a magical f*cking thing to do. What a crazy, magical, wild experience. If that’s meant to happen for me, I’m totally down for it. I’ve been really tripping out recently like, we’re not here for very long.
‘There’s so much to eat up and learn and grow from and experience and feel. That includes all the pain and the suffering and feeling so helpless about the world. Most days I feel like the most useless piece of sh*t.
‘I’m sitting in this dumb*ss chair, talking about this dumb*ss movie, and there are people in excruciating catastrophes, and what can I do? I do have that incredible friction in myself. And then I’m like, We’re not here for very long, so if I’m meant to be a mother, bring it on. ‘
The actress has been dating Coldplay frontman Chris since 2017 but watching him perform on stage never gets old.
‘I love watching him. I could watch him every day. I don’t know how to explain it. I feel like, I don’t know… I’m watching my most favorite being do his most favorite thing,’ she explained.
Paltrow and Martin pictured with their children, Apple and Moses
Johnson has been dating Martin since 2017; pictured 2019
He was previously married to Gwyneth from 2003 to 2016; pictured 2014
Dakota’s interview comes after she starred in the new Marvel film Madame Web, which tanked at the box office and was slammed by critics.
The actress said she wasn’t ‘surprised’ by the negative reviews the film had received.
Asked why she wasn’t surprised, she explained: ‘It’s so hard to get movies made, and in these big movies that get made — and it’s even starting to happen with the little ones, which is what’s really freaking me out — decisions are being made by committees, and art does not do well when it’s made by committee.
‘Films are made by a filmmaker and a team of artists around them. You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms.
Gwyneth recently shared this snap of her with Dakota
Dakota’s interview comes after she starred in the new Marvel film Madame Web, which tanked at the box office
‘My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not. Audiences will always be able to sniff out bullsh*t. Even if films start to be made with AI, humans aren’t going to f*cking want to see those.’
Dakota said she would likely never film such a movie again as she didn’t ‘make sense in that world’, however called the movie a ‘learning experience.’
‘It was definitely an experience for me to make that movie. I had never done anything like it before. I probably will never do anything like it again because I don’t make sense in that world. And I know that now.
‘But sometimes in this industry, you sign on to something, and it’s one thing and then as you’re making it, it becomes a completely different thing, and you’re like, Wait, what? But it was a real learning experience, and of course it’s not nice to be a part of something that’s ripped to shreds, but I can’t say that I don’t understand.’