MEN ARE AFRAID TO TALK TO ME SAYS FIFTY SHADES STAR DAKOTA JOHNSON

On the patio at the Redbury Hotel in Hollywood

.  Strange but true---since the phenomenal success of the bondage-heavy S and M saga Fifty Shades of Grey its young star Dakota Johnson has had difficulty meeting men.  For some reason, she tells me when we chat at the trendy Redbury Hotel in Hollywood, they are scared to approach her  or talk to her.  "I don't know why. You tell me," she says with a smile. 

 Then there are the other kind who think she is into the same kinky sex her character Anastasia Steele goes in for. "Some people think this is something I'm interested in in my private life which is not the case," she says firmly. "I'm an actor--I pretend. But I guess it's something that happens with a lot of actors: people think that in real life they are like the characters they play." 

  The 26-year-old, doe-eyed actress, whose latest movie is the sex comedy How To Be Single, admits: "I definitely get lonely sometimes, for sure, but luckily I have such a distraction in my job at the moment that I don't think about men very often."

   Dakota, who is the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith is soon to start filming the Fifty Shades sequel, Fifty Shades Darker wiht co-star Jamie Dornan. And, she says: "It’s going to be interesting. It's kind of more of a thriller and there are new characters,which will be nice."