Dakota Johnson feels she wasn’t responsible for ‘Madame Net’s box-office failure.
The 35-year-old actress starred alongside the likes of Sydney Sweeney and Isabela Merced within the S.J. Clarkson-directed superhero movie, which was broadly panned by followers and critics – however Dakota insists she wasn’t answerable for the movie’s failures.
The Hollywood star instructed the Los Angeles Occasions newspaper: “It wasn’t my fault.
“There’s this factor that occurs now the place a variety of artistic choices are made by committee. Or made by individuals who don’t have a artistic bone of their physique. And it’s actually arduous to make artwork that means. Or to make one thing entertaining that means. And I believe sadly with ‘Madame Net’, it began out as one thing and was one thing else. And I used to be simply form of alongside for the experience at that time. However that occurs.
“Greater-budget films fail on a regular basis.”
Dakota insists she will not dwell on the movie’s underwhelming box-office efficiency.
She mentioned: “I don’t have a Band-Assist over it. There’s no a part of me that’s like, ‘Oh, I’ll by no means do this once more’ to something. I’ve finished even tiny films that didn’t do effectively. Who cares?”
Dakota beforehand admitted that she’s unlikely to make one other superhero film.
The actress additionally questioned the strategy to creating ‘Madame Net’.
She instructed Bustle in 2024: “It’s so arduous to get films made, and in these huge films that get made — and it’s even beginning to occur with the little ones, which is what’s actually freaking me out — choices are being made by committees, and artwork doesn’t do effectively when it’s made by committee.
“Movies are made by a filmmaker and a group of artists round them. You can’t make artwork primarily based on numbers and algorithms. My feeling has been for a very long time that audiences are extraordinarily good, and executives have began to imagine that they’re not.
“Audiences will all the time be capable of sniff out bull****. Even when movies begin to be made with AI, people aren’t going to f****** need to see these.
“Nevertheless it was undoubtedly an expertise for me to make that film. I had by no means finished something prefer it earlier than. I in all probability won’t ever do something prefer it once more as a result of I don’t make sense in that world. And I do know that now.”
Dakota did not benefit from the backlash that got here her means after ‘Madame Net’ was launched. However she additionally considers the film to be a studying expertise for her.
The actress mirrored: “Generally on this business, you signal on to one thing, and it’s one factor after which as you’re making it, it turns into a totally completely different factor, and also you’re like, Wait, what? Nevertheless it was an actual studying expertise, and naturally it’s not good to be part of one thing that’s ripped to shreds, however I can’t say that I don’t perceive.”
