Madame Internet flopped with critics and with viewers. Its star is just not shocked.
In a brand new interview, Dakota Johnson stated the poor evaluations for her Spider-Man spinoff — which at present has a 12 p.c on Rotten Tomatoes — weren’t sudden, not less than by her.
“Sadly, I’m not shocked that this has gone down the way in which it has,” Johnson advised Bustle. “You can’t make artwork based mostly 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 to sniff out bulls—.”
The implication there, because it pertains to Madame Internet … is refreshingly candid!
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Johnson additionally claimed that “generally on this trade, you signal on to one thing, and it’s one factor after which as you’re making it, it turns into a very completely different factor, and also you’re like, Wait, what?”
She added that she “in all probability won’t ever do something like [Madame Web] once more as a result of I don’t make sense in that world.”
Within the movie, Johnson performs the title character — form of, nobody ever truly calls her Madame Internet — a New York Metropolis EMT (who works with Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben within the early 2000s for some cause?) who discovers she has clairvoyant talents after surviving a near-death expertise. She then has to guard three different future Spider-Girls from an evil Spider-Man named Ezekiel who desires to kill them. Fairly merely, the movie was a complete mess.
Johnson famous that Madame Internet 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.” Once more: Extraordinarily trustworthy! As somebody who suffered by way of Madame Internet, I sincerely recognize that.
Madame Internet remains to be in theaters … though in all probability not for an excessive amount of longer.
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