--- title: Fifty Shades of Grey Movie: Dakota Johnson, Melanie Griffith at Oscars description: Famous mother-daughter duos argue just like everyone else! canonical: https://time.com/3718611/oscars-fifty-shades-of-grey-dakota-johnson-melanie-griffith/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-23T15:33:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:28.998Z og:title: Watch Dakota Johnson Have a Painfully Awkward 'Fifty Shades' Conversation With Mom Melanie Griffith og:description: Famous mother-daughter duos argue just like everyone else! og:url: https://time.com/3718611/oscars-fifty-shades-of-grey-dakota-johnson-melanie-griffith/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Dakota Johnson Have a Painfully Awkward 'Fifty Shades' Conversation With Mom Melanie Griffith twitter:description: Famous mother-daughter duos argue just like everyone else! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Dakota Johnson Have a Painfully Awkward _Fifty Shades_ Conversation With Mom Melanie Griffith > Sponsored content. 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James, the author of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy, to New York_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 23, 2015 3:33 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 23, 2015 3:33 PM UTC _Fifty Shades of Grey_ star Dakota Johnson brought her mom, actress Melanie Griffith, as her date to the Oscars — but that date got real tense, real fast. A red carpet interview with ABC’s Lara Spencer started off uncomfortable — watch Johnson wince as Spencer calls her Griffith’s “little girl” — and quickly escalated into an excruciatingly awkward ordeal. Of course, Spencer brings up _Fifty Shades,_ and the fact that basically everyone has seen it. Then she asks Griffith if _she’s_ seen it. “No,” Griffith says in a flat voice. “I don’t think I can. 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