Dakota Johnson Confirms Her Grandma Tippi Hedren Still Lives With, Oh, 13 or 14 Lions and Tigers - Vulture

Maybe she learned her mellowness from a lifetime of being around lions and tigers, because, as the actress told Graham Norton on The Graham Norton Show, Hedren is currently down to a reasonable “13 or 14 lions and tigers” from her original sixty.

“It is what it is,” jokes Johnson, reassuring viewers “she didn’t loose the leg” when Norton displayed a classic 1971 Life photo of her mother Melanie Griffith, then a teenager, roughhousing by Hedren’s pool with a full grown lion named Neil.

(Please check out the entire photo gallery here; Joe Exotic would be sick with envy.).