Actress Dakota Johnson has admitted she will likely never be involved in any movie like Madame Web ever again after the Marvel’s Spider-Man universe was box office bomb.
Johnson, who starred as the movie’s clairvoyant superhero, Cassandra Webb, in an interview with the Bustle, the actress said, “Unfortunately, I’m not surprised that this has gone down the way it has.”
According to her, films are made by a filmmaker and a team of artists around them. “You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms,” she explained.
“My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not,” she said by adding, “Audiences will always be able to sniff out bullshit. Even if films start to be made with [artificial intelligence], humans aren’t going to want to see those.”
She continued: “But it was definitely an experience for me to make that movie. 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.
“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,” she said.
In an earlier interview, the 34-year-old actress confirmed that the Madame Web script underwent ‘drastic changes’ after she had signed on to play the title lead.
Johnson leads the movie as Cassandra Webb, a New York paramedic who crosses paths with three young women whom she must protect from a mysterious adversary who wants them destroyed.
Following its cinematic release on Valentine’s Day, the film could not do well at the box. It currently sits at an abysmal 12% rating on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
