Dakota Johnson is sharing some rare insight into her decades-long friendship with Riley Keough.
The 33-year-old Fifty Shades of Grey actress was recently interviewed by Vanity Fair as part of a profile on the 34-year-old Daisy Jones & The Six actress.
In the article, Dakota opened up about close friendship with Riley, which all started when they first met in an In-N-Out parking lot when they were teenagers.
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“It was like finding a soulmate,” Dakota shared. “When I met her, I felt this thing that is so impossible to articulate, growing up in a famous family.”
As the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, Dakota remembered an immediate sense of “solidarity” and “understanding” with Riley, whose parents are the late Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough.
“We would just smoke cigarettes with our moms,” Dakota recalled. “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.’ I’d go to Riley’s and then leave a week later. I don’t know if that’s normal, but, yeah, just running around LA, sharing clothes, smelling like Nag Champa. Most of it involved music festivals and dating musicians, of course.”
Dakota also revealed that when they were teens, they started a band.
“When we were 19, we started a joke band called Folky Porn. Riley and I both had blond hair. We were hiding out in New York after breakups,” Dakota shared. “We would do three-part harmonies with my brother, Alexander, on Hank Williams songs and John Prine songs, and we’d film them on Photo Booth. Thousands and thousands of takes.”
Eventually art imitated life and Riley became a real-life rockstar when she starred in Daisy Jones & The Six.
“Oh my goodness, Dakota did discover me,” Riley joked. “I’ve been lying to the world! I was in a band!”
When asked if she would rather tour with The Six or Folky Porn, Riley said, “Don’t ask me those kinds of questions. It’s very controversial—but I would rather go on tour with Folky Porn.”
Also in the interview, Riley revealed her daughter’s name, why she used a surrogate, and where she stands with grandmother Priscilla Presley after their legal battle.