Dakota Johnson Not Looking To Reenter Superhero Space Any Time Soon Post-‘Madame Web’: “I Don’t Make Sense In That World”

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Following the critical and commercial failure of the Sony/Marvel pic Madame Web, don’t expect Dakota Johnson to reenter the superhero sphere any time soon.

In an interview with Bustle published on Tuesday, Johnson admitted, “I probably will never do anything like it again, because I don’t make sense in that world.

And I know that now.” Johnson indicated that from the start, she wasn’t entirely sure how the S.J. Clarkson-helmed film would turn out, saying that “sometimes in this industry, you sign on to something, and it’s one thing and then as you’re making it, it becomes a completely different thing, and you’re like, ‘Wait, what?'” She went on to call making her first superhero flick “a real learning experience, “adding that “of course it’s not nice to be a part of something that’s ripped to shreds, but I can’t say that I don’t understand.” One major facet of Johnson’s issue with Madame Web was her sense that with this film — as with so many, big and small, these days — “decisions are being made by committees, even though “art does not do well when it’s made by committee.” She emphasized that “films are made by a filmmaker and a team of artists around them.

You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms.” Continued the actress, “My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not.