Dakota Johnson has no regrets about “Madame Web,” regardless of the 2024 Marvel superhero movie being deemed a vital and business flop.
In an interview with The Los Angeles Occasions this week, Johnson mentioned the movie’s failure “wasn’t my fault” and was, as a substitute, because of “a lot of creative decisions” made by “people who don’t have a creative bone in their body.”
“It’s really hard to make art that way. Or to make something entertaining that way,” she defined. “And I think unfortunately with ‘Madame Web,’ it started out as something and turned into something else. And I was just sort of along for the ride at that point. But that happens. Bigger-budget movies fail all the time.”
Directed by S.J. Clarkson, “Madame Web” stars Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic whose brush with loss of life awakens dormant psychic powers. Along with Johnson, the movie options an all-star supporting forged, which incorporates Emma Roberts, Adam Scott and Sydney Sweeney.
Opinions for “Madame Web” had been largely unfavourable, with The Hollywood Reporter calling it “an airless and stilted endeavor driven by a mechanical screenplay.”
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The movie reportedly value about $80 million to supply however raked in a measly $25.8 million in its opening week, making it the bottom field workplace opening within the historical past of Sony’s “Spider-Man” franchise.
Johnson, who returns to the large display screen within the romantic comedy “The Materialists,” has beforehand hinted at her frustrations with “Madame Web.”
“Unfortunately, I’m not surprised that this has gone down the way it has,” she informed Bustle in March of final yr, shortly after the movie was launched. “I had never done anything like it before. I probably will never do anything like it again because I don’t make sense in that world. And I know that now.”
“But sometimes in this industry, you sign on to something, and it’s one thing and then as you’re making it, it becomes a completely different thing, and you’re like, Wait, what?” she added on the time. “But it was a real learning experience, and 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.”
Johnson supplied a extra pragmatic tackle the state of affairs in her Los Angeles Occasions chat, telling the outlet: “There’s no part of me that’s like, ‘Oh, I’ll never do that again’ to anything. I’ve done even tiny movies that didn’t do well. Who cares?”
Happily for Johnson, early buzz on “The Materialists” ― which additionally stars Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal ― has been constructive. Critics who’ve screened the film to date have referred to as it “a brutally realistic and beautiful examination of love,” whereas praising Johnson as “a perfect imperfect protagonist.”
