Russell Crowe calls out Dakota Johnson for ripping Marvel flop ‘Madame Web’: ‘You’re here for the wrong reasons’

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flop movie “Madame Web,” saying the project was “made by committees” and had no artistic value.“You’re telling me you signed up for a Marvel movie, and some f–king universe for cartoon characters … and you didn’t get enough pathos?” Crowe said in a recent interview with GQ UK. “Not quite sure how I can make this better for you.

It’s a gigantic machine, and they make movies at a certain size.”Crowe, who did declare that he didn’t “want to make any comments to what anybody else might have said or what their experience is,” also pointed out that he has experience with superhero films, having starred in DC’s “Man of Steel” and Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder.” He’s also in Sony and Marvel’s upcoming movie “Kraven the Hunter,” which is set in the same universe as “Madame Web.”“These are jobs,” Crowe said. “You know: here’s your role, play the role.

If you’re expecting this to be some kind of life-changing event, I just think you’re here for the wrong reasons.”However, Crowe did acknowledge that doing superhero movies “can be challenging” at times and that as an actor in those projects, you sometimes “have to convince yourself of a lot more than just the internal machinations of your character.“But for anything to be … and you can’t make this a direct comment on her because I don’t know her and I don’t know what she went through, and the fact that you can have a s–t experience on a film … Yeah, you can,” he said. “But is that the Marvel process?

I’m not sure you can say that. I haven’t had a bad experience.”The Post has reached out to Johnson’s rep for comment. Johnson, 34, did her first superhero movie earlier this year to terrible results.