'Fifty Shades of Grey' star Dakota Johnson tells Elle magazine she 'has no shame'

FIRST she was cast as Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey. Now, Dakota Johnson is looking every bit as sultry as her character in Elle magazine.

Dakota Johnson poses in Elle magazine. Photo: Carter Smith

DAKOTA Johnson is quickly becoming a household name.

First, she was cast as Anastasia Steele in the highly anticipated, highly sexual book-to-screen adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey. Now, the 24-year-old beauty is gracing the cover of Elle's March issue in the US, looking every bit as sultry as her character.

"I don't have any problem doing anything," Johnson tells Elle of the chops and sexual honesty needed for the Fifty Shades role. "The secret is I have no shame."

Dakota Johnson in Elle. Photo: Carter Smith

That said, what interested the actor most while reading the book wasn't the racy scenes, but rather the characters' interaction. "Reading the book, I found myself more interested in the ways they were breaking each other down emotionally than the sex scenes," she says. "I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down."

In real life, Johnson - daughter of actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson - is dating Jordan Masterson, brother of That '70s Show star Danny Masterson.

From the looks of Johnson's photo shoot, he is one lucky man.

The March issue of Elle hits newsstands in the US on Feb. 18.

This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post.