Dakota Jokes “Madame Web” Flop Was ‘Not Her Fault’

Dakota Johnson is reflecting on the negative reception her film Madame Web was met with last year.

The Fifty Shades Of Grey star appeared alongside Sydney Sweeney and The Last Of Us’ Isabela Merced in the Spider-Man spin-off, taking the lead as Cassandra Webb.

Upon its release, Madame Web was near-unanimously slammed by critics, and was also a bomb at the box office.

Asked about the project during a new interview with the LA Times, Dakota quipped: “It wasn’t my fault.”

She explained: “There’s this thing that happens now where a lot of creative decisions are made by committee. Or made by people who don’t have a creative bone in their body. And 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.”

“I don’t have a Band-Aid over it,” she claimed. “There’s no part of me that’s like, ‘Oh, I’ll never do that again’ to anything. I’ve done even tiny movies that didn’t do well. Who cares?”