Yes, Marvel’s Madame Web is a ‘schlocky, janky’ disaster – but Dakota Johnson’s press tour is a joy

The miserable box office performance by some distance, it has the lowest-grossing opening weekend of any Spidey-adjacent movie made this century has killed off a potential franchise at birth..

In fairness, she was describing her own performance and not the movie in general, but before she knew it Dakota Johnson says making Madame Web was absolutely psychotic headlines were springing up online...

Pressed on whether or not she could name the most recent Spider-Man films given that Madame Web is peripherally linked to the character she came up with Spider-Man: Here He Comes, Spider-Man: And Hes Back and The Goblet of Spider-Man.is..

Madame Web was the butt of several jokes from the release of the first trailer, which included the clumsy, exposition-heavy, eminently meme-worthy line, He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died..

For the most part, though, Johnson has only really come to life in interviews when the subject of Madame Web goes away, as when she animatedly told Seth Meyers that making her cameo in the finale of The Office was honestly the worst time of my life, or when she used a recent Saturday Night Live hosting stint to propose a nepo baby truce with two other cast members who also have famous parents a foot in the door and so much more or when an interview was interrupted by an earthquake..

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