'Fifty Shades of Grey' Star Dakota Johnson to Host 'Saturday Night Live'

There will surely be a sketch or two about "Fifty Shades of Grey" in the next installment of "Saturday Night Live."

Dakota Johnson, who plays Anastacia Steel in E.L. James' movie adaptation of the British author's erotic novel, has announced that she is set to host the NBC sketch-comedy show's episode on Feb. 28.

Johnson, who also has a background in comedy after having starred on Fox' sitcom "Ben and Kate," made the reveal during Jerry Seinfeld's "taking questions from the audience" at SNL's 40th Anniversary Special last Sunday.

Since Seinfeld had hosted SNL before, first-time SNL host Johnson asked him about how the process was like, to which the stand-up comedian replied: "Well, Dakota, hosting the show is thrilling, but when you host, you're totally powerless — you're told what to do, what to wear, you just have to submit," Seinfeld said.

"So great, it's like a regular shoot," Johnson responded, according to Entertainment Weekly.

It will be Johnson's first time hosting the show, which came 27 years after her mother, actress Melanie Griffith, hosted "Saturday Night Live" in 1988.

Johnson, who starred opposite Jamie Dornan in the sadomasochist sexy film "Fifty Shades of Grey," delivered a victory for Universal Pictures as the movie earned the No. 1 spot at the box office through the weekend.

It raked in a total of $90.7 million since it premiered on Thursday, according Rentrak that compiles ticketing data.

Rentrak said the $40-million erotic film capitalized on the fall of Valentine's Day on a Saturday, attracting an audience that was 68 percent female.

It added that the movie based on the steamy best-selling novel had the second biggest February debut ever, coming after Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," which debuted with $83.9 million in 2004, the Entertainment Weekly reported.

Nick Carpou, the president of domestic distribution at Universal, said "Fifty Shades of Grey" was played in 3,646 theaters in North America, the largest release in history for an R-rated movie.