It’s TIME100 season, and landing on the four covers this year are Nikki Glaser (you go, girl!), Luke Combs (ok), Zoe Saldaña (why not?), and Wagner Moura (swoon). But it wouldn’t be the TIME100 without 96 more entries, plus a rotating cast of celebrities writing about their now-Time-featured famous friends.
Included on “The 100 Most Influential People of 2026” (we’re not even halfway into the year, but sure!) is Dakota Johnson, whom I love, and whom Taylor Swift also apparently loves because she wrote Johnson’s tribute. I guess I knew they were friends, but I did have to Google Dakota Johnson Taylor Swift friends? to be reminded of their NYC dinner sightings. Anyway.
“In recent years, as she’s promoted her films, the name Dakota Johnson has become synonymous with refreshing honesty in a world of media-trained answers,” Swift wrote. “Maybe it’s her sing-song vocal delivery, serenely answering questions with such frank candor it makes you feel like maybe this girl just … can’t lie?!” Actually, she can lie. She lied about loving limes in her Architectural Digest home tour in 2020, and didn’t reveal she lied until one year later. But I digress—I also love watching Johnson get interviewed. It always feels like we’re just one question away from getting another “That’s not the truth, Ellen” moment.
I don’t mean to ruin Johnson’s big moment with the memory of what I imagine is her lowest—but wow, was that movie bad. The script was terrible, the acting was bewildering, and the whole time I was thinking, Was Dakota blackmailed into this? Did Swift see that movie? Did she text her after? Did she tell her she loved it? Or did she say something like, “So proud of you for all your ‘fascinatingly varied’ choices”?
“As her friend, I can vouch for her realness, but add that she’s also one of the most empathetic people I’ve ever known,” Swift wrote. Which is lovely. I hope Johnson had plenty of empathy for herself, for whatever reason—contractual, karmic, or otherwise—she had for ever reading that script in the first place.
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