Dakota Johnson Says Sandra Bullock Sent Her a Supportive Voice Note After MADAME WEB Razzie Win: 'I Freaked Out' — GeekTyrant
Madame Web has cemented itself as one of the strangest blips in superhero movie history, a film so bewildering that it swept the 2024 Razzies, including Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Actress for Dakota Johnson.
But, even in Hollywood's most awkward moments, there's a silver lining… and sometimes, that silver lining comes in the form of a voice note from Sandra Bullock.
On Amy Poehler's new podcast Good Hang, Johnson shared that after the Razzie announcement, Johnson said she received a message from Bullock, who famously 'won' Worst Actress in 2010 for All About Steve , only to win the Oscar days later for The Blind Side .
Johnson told Poehler:
'I recently actually exchanged texts — well, I got a voice note — from Sandra Bullock, because I don't know if you know, but I won the Razzie for Worst Actress.
'There's a lot of good people who have won that… but Sandra Bullock sent me a voice note, being like 'I heard you are in the Razzie club and we should have brunch, we should have a monthly brunch.' Because I guess she won that the year that she won the Oscar as well. It was in the same year, I think.'
Understandably, Johnson was surprised.
'I freaked out getting this message from her because she's so iconic to me, as like a movie star. I was like, 'Oh my God.' I was just crazy.'
The infamous Madame Web , Sony's much-memed Marvel misfire, saw Johnson play Cassandra Webb, a New York paramedic who gains psychic powers after a near-death experience.
It had all the makings of an intriguing origin story, but what hit theaters felt more like a chopped-up relic of a movie caught between studio mandates and shifting creative visions.
With an 11% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and just $43 million earned at the domestic box office, it quickly became the internet's punching bag.
But Johnson has made it clear she's not taking the blame lying down. She previously explained what went wrong behind the scenes.
'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.'
On Good Hang , she expanded even further, opening up about how disorienting the process was as an actor.
'The final cut of Madame Web was a completely different script than what I attached to. That is a wild thing to like a crazy journey to go on as an artist because you're like, 'Okay, I'm doing something like with my actual body and my actual mind and my heart, my emotions.
'I'm like using things. And it's just being taken and f*cked with.' But you can't do anything about it. Like, what am I gonna do? F*cking cry about Madame Web? No.'
You can watch Johnson's full interview with Amy Poehler on Good Hang below.
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