Dakota Johnson er ikke overrasket over at Madame Web er en fiasko

Få relativt store film kan betragtes som en fiasko på linje med Madame Web, der blev åbent hånet fra den første trailer, og nu ikke bare har høstet ret rådne anmeldelser, men ligeledes er en stor økonomisk skuffelse også.

Men spørger du hovedrolleindehaver Dakota Johnson, så er intet af dette kommet bag på hende. Hun er kendt for at være ret bramfri i interviews, og i et nyligt et med Bustle siger hun dette:

"Unfortunately, I'm not surprised that this has gone down the way it has. It's so hard to get movies made, and in these big movies that get made — and it's even starting to happen with the little ones, which is what's really freaking me out — decisions are being made by committees, and art does not do well when it's made by committee. Films are made by a filmmaker and a team of artists around them. You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms. My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they're not. Audiences will always be able to sniff out bulls**t. Even if films start to be made with AI, humans aren't going to f**king want to see those."

Hun slår dog fast, at for hende personligt fortryder hun ikke at have medvirket i Madame Web:

"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. And I know that now."

Filmen har i skrivende stund indhentet omkring $96 millioner mod et budget (foruden markedsføring) på $80 millioner.