Dakota Johnson gets frank about box-office bomb ‘Madame Web’: ‘Will never do anything like it again’

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cinematic bomb “Madame Web.”Johnson, 34, laid bare her feelings on the big-screen catastrophe, which was produced by Sony in conjunction with Marvel and earned only $26.2 million from its premiere on Valentine’s Day through President’s Day, in an interview with Bustle.“Unfortunately, I’m not surprised that this has gone down the way it has,” Johnson told the outlet in a cover story, which published on Tuesday. “But it was definitely an experience for me to make that movie.

I had never done anything like that before.”The “Madame Web” debut marked the lowest-ever opening for any film in the Sony Spider-Man universe — and also marked one of the worst openings for a move based on a Marvel Comics character.Its reviews didn’t help matters; “Madame Web” was ripped to shreds by most critics and moviegoers.In the movie, Johnson stars as clairvoyant paramedic Cassandra “Cassie” Webb/Madame Web, who’s linked to Spider-Man via Benjamin “Ben” Parker, the uncle of Peter Parker/Spider-Man.Cassie acquired her clairvoyant powers via her mother who, in 1973, was pregnant and discovered a magical spider in the Peruvian rainforest that gives indigenous tribes superhuman qualities.Those powers are transferred by the tribes to baby Cassie after her mother is killed by her greedy travel companion.The flick co-stars Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor and Tahar Rahim.The “50 Shades of Grey” star doubted that she would ever make a similar kind of movie.“I probably will never do anything like it again because I don’t make sense in that world,” she told Bustle. “And I know that now.