Regardless of what the internet says, I thought Madame Web was a highly entertaining movie, but star Dakota Johnson had been getting nothing but flak for it, even getting awarded the Worst Actress Razzie in 2024.
Johnson has been very open about knowing that the movie failed, but in a recent talk with Amy Poehler on her podcast Good Hang (via Variety) she reveals that she made an unlikely friend in the form of fellow Razzie winner Sandra Bullock.
“I recently actually exchanged texts — well, I got a voice note — from Sandra Bullock, because I don’t know if you know, but I won the Razzie for Worst Actress… There’s a lot of good people who have won that… but Sandra Bullock sent me a voice note, being like ‘I heard you are in the Razzie club and we should have brunch, we should have a monthly brunch.’ Because I guess she won that the year that she won the Oscar as well. It was in the same year, I think.”
For context, Bullock managed to win both an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year. She won Worst Actress for All About Steve, and an Academy Award for The Blind Side.
Despite the flak that Johnson got for Madame Web though, it does seem like she still has a good following—at least where social media is concerned. There is a lot of hype for her upcoming movie Materialists, and I thought she was also great in Am I OK? on HBO Max.
If anything, Johnson isn’t being apologetic about Web at all, and she blames the film’s flop status on ‘creative decisions made by committee’. “It’s really hard to make art that way. Or to make something entertaining that way. And I think unfortunately with ‘Madame Web,’ it started out as something and turned into something else. And I was just sort of along for the ride at that point. But that happens. Bigger-budget movies fail all the time,” she says.
For now, Johnson stars alongside Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans in Materialists which comes to cinemas on June 13.
