Comparatively back in 2022, a Sony flick based on a Marvel character Morbius which also flopped, received a 15% approval rating and made $39 million in its opening weekend.
The movie revolves around Cassandra Webb, a paramedic who has clairvoyant abilities and is forced to confront her past while trying to survive with three young women with powerful futures.
Instead of the movie, what netizens are discussing is the bizarre and hilarious statements the movie’s main lead, Dakota Johnson has made throughout the press tour. Read on to see what she’s said:
Her viral moments
Many netizens balked at this ridiculous line in the trailer, “He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died.”
In an interview with Huffington Post, she was questioned about the line and why it prompted such interest on social media.
“Why did it go viral?” She added, deadpanned, “Somebody brought this up and I have no idea what it’s about…Isn’t every sentence out of context … out of context?
are they literally talking abt me and deedee…,…. pic.twitter.com/sPBUwlBc5i
— Chazz (@chazzers_) February 7, 2024
She’s only watched 4% of Marvel Movies
Considering that she’s starring in a superhero Sony-Marvel movie, you’d have thought that Dakota would’ve watched all the other movies religiously.
However, during an interview, she admitted that she’d only watched 4% of Marvel movies…which is like 15 minutes of one.”
When she said she's seen exactly 4% of the Marvel movies pic.twitter.com/mtLyMxhYvw
— Heroes Unbound ⚡️ (@HeroesUnbound) February 18, 2024
Additionally, when she was asked to name the Spider-Man movies, she mentioned one of them as being “The Goblet of Spider-Man.”
When she very accurately named all three MCU Spider-Man movies pic.twitter.com/VP8FK1zIpJ
— Heroes Unbound ⚡️ (@HeroesUnbound) February 18, 2024
She didn’t appear to agree when an interviewer predicted that Madame Web would win best picture at the Oscars, saying “that would also piss people off”
When she predicted that Oppenheimer will win Best Picture only to be corrected by the interviewer pic.twitter.com/iLxJPL8QV4
— Heroes Unbound ⚡️ (@HeroesUnbound) February 18, 2024
An actual earthquake happened during an interview, and she declared, “There will be an aftershock.”
When an actual earthquake interrupted her interview with ET pic.twitter.com/EKo9g3zCKd
— Heroes Unbound ⚡️ (@HeroesUnbound) February 18, 2024
She ran into Elizabeth Olsen (who stars as the Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and who said she had a great experience with Marvel).
Dakota seemed to be low-key under the impression that she was the MCU as well.
When Elizabeth Olsen told her she had a great Marvel experience and Dakota lowkey thought she was in the MCU pic.twitter.com/vW4YzfpZCW
— Heroes Unbound ⚡️ (@HeroesUnbound) February 18, 2024
Despite knowing Elizabeth Olsen, she couldn’t name any of her favourite female Marvel movie characters.
Although the MCU universe is admittedly male dominated, there are famous characters such as Black Widow and Captain Marvel.
When she was asked which female Marvel movie character she liked the most and she didn’t say any (even though she’s friends with Scarlet Witch ?) pic.twitter.com/7mON41swcu
— Heroes Unbound ⚡️ (@HeroesUnbound) February 18, 2024
She said on Saturday Night Live that Madame Web was like “if A.I. generated your boyfriend’s favourite movie.
Dakota also quipped that Madame Web was the same as ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ but with more clothes on.When she quipped on SNL that Madame Web is like “if AI generated your boyfriend’s perfect movie” pic.twitter.com/jOY6hmwz4Z
— Heroes Unbound ⚡️ (@HeroesUnbound) February 18, 2024
When she said Madame Web was the same as the Fifty Shades of Grey movies but with more clothes on pic.twitter.com/hy850mVcPA
— Heroes Unbound ⚡️ (@HeroesUnbound) February 18, 2024
In fact, this hilarious TikTok pretty much sums it up:
@zayydante #relatable #madameweb #movie ♬ original sound - zay dante
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Image credit: @dakotajohnson, SNL