Dakota Johnson is, by her own account, six minutes late. Logging on to a recent video call, she explained that she had gone looking online for a weighted blanket for anxiety and had no idea there were so many different kinds.

“I just need this one thing, and then you’re inundated with options,” she said, “and then that’s like the story of my life. I just end up putting things in a basket and then never buying them.”

Johnson has good reason to be stressed, though you wouldn’t know it from her placid, playful demeanor, soothing, honeyed voice and varied, low-key enthusiasms. Having launched to stardom as an actor with the “Fifty Shades” trilogy and currently garnering acclaim in the awards-season contender “The Lost Daughter,” Johnson also stars in two films at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The projects also happen to mark the first finished films produced through her company, Teatime Pictures.

Writer-director Cooper Raiff’s “Cha Cha Real Smooth” features Johnson as Domino, mother to an autistic teenager (Vanessa Burghardt) and engaged to be married. After she meets 22-year-old Andrew (Raiff ), who recently started working as a bar mitzvah party starter, things take a turn.

Then, in “Am I OK?,” directed by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, Johnson stars as Lucy, who finds her longtime friendship with Jane (Sonoya Mizuno) thrown into disarray by Jane’s impending move out of the country for work, as well as Lucy’s realization that she is a lesbian.

For Johnson, 32, the two films serve as a statement of purpose for Teatime and her grander ambitions for the company.

“As an actress, especially when the film comes out, I’m always finding myself bumping up against something,” she said. “I’m finding either it’s like, ‘Oh, that’s not what I signed on to. That is not the film I wanted to make or that we talked about making.’ Cause for so long, my career has been, I prep and I show up and I do my work, and then that’s it.”

With “Am I OK?,” for the first time she found herself grappling with much more, all the things previously kept from her in the process of making a movie. Which in this case included two COVID shutdowns of 10 days each on a movie intended to have a production that lasted only 20 days.

“Of course there’s things that are stressful in terms of like, ‘OK, how do we do this? How do we get around this problem and save money?’ All the things that are so unsexy about making movies, but then I feel better about it,” Johnson said. “I feel like every single decision that is made can be made with artistic integrity, it can be creative.”

While the rest of the world has been cycling through varying stages of shutdown over the past two years, Johnson has been particularly busy. She launched Teatime Pictures with partner Ro Donnelly in 2019, and they already had set up a few projects when the pandemic brought the industry to a halt. As things got back into gear, she made four movies in fairly quick order, shooting “The Lost Daughter” in Greece, “Am I OK?” in Los Angeles, “Persuasion” in England and “Cha Cha Real Smooth” in Pittsburgh.

“Maybe that’s why I need the blanket, because it’s been really hardcore,” Johnson said. “Somehow I just didn’t stop during COVID.”