Dakota Johnson recalls mom Melanie Griffith got ‘horrific’ gift from ‘tyrant’ Hitchcock
1960s films “Marnie” and “The Birds.”The “Fifty Shades of Gray” alum, 32, noted in a recent Vanity Fair profile that Hitchcock gave Griffith, 64, a mini Hedren stuck in a small coffin as a toy for Christmas.“What happened with my grandmother was horrific because Hitchcock was a tyrant,” Johnson said. “He was talented and prolific — and important in terms of art — but power can poison people.”She noted that the traumatizing gift was “alarming and dark and really, really sad for that little girl” and “really scary.”The “21 Jump Street” actress then looked back on the 2012 HBO drama, “The Girl,” which fictionalized the contentious relationship between the “Psycho” filmmaker and Hedren, 92, during filming “The Birds.”Johnson and her grandmother saw a private screening of the movie with the rest of their family.“We sat at HBO, my family, and watched that movie together,” she said.Johnson continued, “It was one of those moments where you’re just like, how could you not have warned us? We’re in a room with some execs.