Dakota Johnson reveals she failed an audition after she was accused of being 'cocky' for politely shaking hands with everyone in the room

Dakota Johnson has revealed that she once failed an audition after being accused of being 'cocky' for politely shaking hands with the creative team when she entered the room. 

The American actress, 36, made the revelation while appearing on Hits Radio to promote her latest comedy movie, Splitsville. 

Explaining how she was just trying to be polite ahead of reading her lines, Dakota said on the show: 'I had an audition once, and it was a callback, and I went into the room, and I shook everyone’s hand and introduced myself. Then I did the scene, and I left.'

'The feedback I got was that because I had gone and introduced myself and shook everyone’s hand, is that I was pompous.

She continued: 'That I was schmoozing, and I was full of myself, and I was like: "What?" I didn’t get the job because they said that I was being cocky, but I just had manners… It was pretty crazy.'

Dakota grew up with Antonio Banderas as her stepfather and Tippi Hedren as her 96-year-old grandmother.

Her dad, Don Johnson, warned all his children they'd be deprived of their allowance if they didn't attend college, so Dakota auditioned for The Juilliard School with monologues from William Shakespeare and Steve Martin.

Dakota admitted she 'really didn't want to go to college' in a May interview with ELLE UK, but was dismayed at the idea of being 'cut off' by the Miami Vice alum and admitted 'it was hard to make money.'

By age 18, Dakota used her famous name to easily sign with IMG for modelling in 2006 and two years later, she signed with the William Morris Agency for acting.

'There were a few times when I'd go to the market and not have money in my bank account or not be able to pay rent, and I'd have to ask my parents for help,' Dakota lamented.

'I'm very grateful that I had parents who could help me and did help me. But it certainly was not fun. The auditioning process, as you know, is the f***ing worst.'

The Independent Spirit Award winner noted that her mother, Melanie Griffith, 'was the nice one' when it came to hand-outs. 

Dakota also has Melanie to thank for her big-screen debut, at age nine, in Antonio's dismally-reviewed directorial debut Crazy in Alabama in 1999.

Before landing her breakout role in the Fifty Shades trilogy, Dakota first caught the industry's attention as panty-clad Harvard University student Amelia in David Fincher's 2010 drama The Social Network.

'When [the nepo baby scrutiny] first started I found it to be, like, incredibly annoying and boring,' the Daddio star scoffed on TODAY last year.

Last June, news broke that Dakota and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin had called it quits after a six-year engagement.

A source previously told the Daily Mail that, at the time of their break-up, the relationship had already 'been over for a long time, they just haven't been able to figure out to make it official.'

Dakota, who appeared particularly sun-kissed in photos last year, was spotted soaking up some rays in Ibiza over the summer following the split.

In July, she was pictured lounging on a luxury yacht with actress Kate Hudson and former NFL quarterback Tom Brady. Around the same time, she was also seen alongside a mystery man in the island paradise. 

Melanie, however, was reportedly attempting to reunite her daughter with Martin, a source told the Daily Mail last month.

According to the source, Melanie thinks the break-up is a 'huge mistake.'

'She's convinced that they are meant to be together and isn't giving up on them. She thinks her daughter is making a huge mistake and needs to meet Chris halfway.

Melanie has four children from her three marriages: son Alexander, 39, whom she she shares with ex-husband Stephen Bauer; daughter Dakota and step-son Jesse, 42, who she shares with Don; and daughter Stella, 28, who she shares with Banderas.