Madame Internet flopped with critics and with viewers. Its star shouldn’t be stunned.
In a brand new interview, Dakota Johnson mentioned the poor opinions for her Spider-Man spinoff — which presently has a 12 % on Rotten Tomatoes — weren’t sudden, no less than by her.
“Sadly, I’m not stunned that this has gone down the best way it has,” Johnson advised Bustle. “You can not 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 consider that they’re not. Audiences will at all times be capable of sniff out bulls—.”
The implication there, because it pertains to Madame Internet … is refreshingly candid!
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Johnson additionally claimed that “typically 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 totally different factor, and also you’re like, Wait, what?”
She added that she “most likely 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 really calls her Madame Internet — a New York Metropolis EMT (who works with Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben within the early 2000s for some purpose?) who discovers she has clairvoyant skills 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 means of Madame Internet, I sincerely recognize that.
Madame Internet continues to be in theaters … though most likely not for an excessive amount of longer.
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