Dakota Johnson Jokes Madame Web Bombing At The Box Office 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?”

Shortly after the movie’s release, Dakota admitted she was “not surprised” to see Madame Web being picked apart in the way that it was.

“It was a real learning experience, and of course it’s not nice to be a part of something that’s ripped to shreds,” she said. “But I can’t say that I don’t understand.”

Dakota previously told Entertainment Weekly: “[Before Madame Web, I’d] never really done a movie where you are on a blue screen, and there’s fake explosions going off, and someone’s going, ‘Explosion!’ and you act like there’s an explosion. That to me was absolutely psychotic.

“I was like, ‘I don’t know if this is going to be good at all! I hope that I did an okay job!’.”