By The “Madame Web” press tour has been a strange one, but the film’s star, Dakota Johnson, has been out there and working hard on the talk show circuit to promote the movie.
One of her more interesting quotes, however, from the tour hasn’t been about the film itself but rather the Hollywood industry in general and how it has become more fear-driven than ever before.
Speaking with L’Officiel magazine, she was talking about how difficult it was for her new film “Daddio” to get made. Johnson produces the Christy Hall-directed film and co-stars in it with Sean Penn and Daisy Ridley. It follows a woman taking a cab ride who engages in a conversation with the taxi driver about the important relationships in their lives.
That film was sold to Sony Pictures Classics and Johnson tells the outlet it “took a lot of fighting to get that made”. She explains:
“People are just so afraid, and I’m like, why? What’s going to happen if you do something brave? It just feels like nobody knows what to do and everyone’s afraid. That’s what it feels like. Everyone who makes decisions is afraid. They want to do the safe thing, and the safe thing is really boring.
I am discovering that it’s really f—- bleak in this industry. It is majorly disheartening. The people who run streaming platforms don’t trust creative people or artists to know what’s going to work, and that is just going to make us implode. It’s really heartbreaking…. It’s so hard to get anything made. All of the stuff I’m interested in making is really different, and it’s unique and it’s very forward in whatever it is.”
The comments follow on from some interesting remarks Johnson said about shooting “Madame Web” earlier this month. Johnson had never really done an FX-heavy film before, dubbing the practice of reacting to fake explosions against a blue screen as “psychotic”.
“Madame Web” is slated to hit cinemas on February 14th.
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