Dakota Johnson Addresses ‘Madame Web’ Flop Reactions
As many fans suspected, the Madame Web cast isn’t too happy about the film they put out, either.
The comic book film’s lead, Dakota Johnson, has admitted in a new Bustle feature that she will probably “never do anything like it again.” She told the publication on Tuesday (March 5) that “it was definitely an experience for me to make that movie.”
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The Suspiria actress admits that in this industry, signing on to something is one thing, and making it is another. In hindsight, Johnson, 34, realizes that now.
“You’re like, ‘Wait, what?'” Despite the bad reviews on the latest MCU film flop, the Texas native, whose parents are actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, says that it was a real learning experience. She adds, “Of course, it’s not nice to be a part of something that’s ripped to shreds, but I can’t say that I don’t understand.”
In the streaming age, Johnson notes how it freaks her out how hard it has gotten for a movie to get made — big and small. The actress, who made her film debut at ten years old alongside her mother in 1999’s Crazy in Alabama, states: “Decisions are being made by committees.”
Art based on numbers and algorithms is a setup for failure, as Johnson says the audiences are intelligent and prefer films made by a filmmaker and their team of artists. Johnson calls out studio executives for believing their audiences are that simple and will accept cheap AI replacements. However, she says, “Audiences will always be able to sniff out bulls—.”
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Johnson joked about the headlines that would even come from her interview but quickly defended her opinions to be “just talking.” Another one of her co-stars made a few jokes about the film reactions recently. Sydney Sweeney, who plays Julia Carpenter, quipped in her recent Saturday Night Live monologue: “You have seen me in Anyone But You or Euphoria. You definitely did not see me in Madame Web.”
Per Marvel, Madame Web possesses psychic abilities, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and prescience. She can also perform astral projection and appear to others in spirit form. She is cybernetically linked to a spider web-like support system to attend to her bodily needs. However, the film flopped just like other Sony-produced films like Morbius and Venom, ranking just 12% on Rotten Tomatoes and 3.7/10 on IMDb.
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