Dakota Johnson Details ‘Soulmate’ Connection With BFF Riley Keough: ‘There Was This Solidarity’
usmagazine.comDakota Johnson and Riley Keough have been friends for half their lives — and their connection keeps deepening as they get older.“It was like finding a soulmate,” Johnson, 33, told Vanity Fair in a cover story published Tuesday, August 8, adding that she met Keough, 34, in an In-N-Out parking lot when they were 16. “When I met her, I felt this thing that is so impossible to articulate, growing up in a famous family.
There was this solidarity. Understanding.”Like Keough, Johnson knows what it’s like to have everyone at school know who your parents — and grandparents — are.
Johnson is the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson and the granddaughter of Tippi Hedren, while Keough is the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough and granddaughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley.According to Dakota, Griffith, 66, and the late Lisa Marie were more than willing to support their daughters’ budding friendship. “We would just smoke cigarettes with our moms.
And they’d call each other and be like, ‘I guess she’s going to stay with you for the next four days. Call me if she needs a ride,’” Dakota recalled. “I’d go to Riley’s and then leave a week later.
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