Emma Roberts She shares her thoughts on why. Madame Web It was a commercial failure.
In an interview varietyThe 33-year-old actress said that in a word, Hollywood is unpredictable and anyone who thinks they can predict the fate of a film really has no idea. A little bit of luck and timing also helps.
“Things work, things don’t work. Everybody acts like they can predict whether something will work or not,” she told the outlet, “but they don’t. Things work, and then they blow up on TikTok. Things work, and then you look at it and you’re like, ‘Did that work?’ There’s no secret. You just have to do something good and it works at the right time. The rest of it is like wishing and praying.”
A Marvel Comics movie directed by S.J. Clarkson and starring Roberts. Dakota JohnsonThe film, which stars Chris Brown, Sydney Sweeney, Isabella Merced, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps and Adam Scott, was released in February. By March, the film was drawing a 12 percent audience rating. Rotten Tomatoesthe audience score was 57 percent.
The film’s commercial failure doesn’t diminish the effort Roberts put into the film, and she says she enjoyed the process.
“I’m not afraid of failure, I’m not afraid of people having negative thoughts about something. I personally loved ‘Madame Web,'” she said. “I really enjoyed the movie. I thought everyone in the cast was fantastic. I think the director, SJ Clarkson, did a fantastic job. She made me want to be in the movie.”
Roberts has some thoughts on why the film didn’t get much attention.
“I think it would have been received differently without Internet culture and without the joke being made of everything,” Roberts said, without elaborating on why the film was targeted in the way it was. “And what disappoints me is that now people are going to make a joke out of anything, even things that I’ve done.”
Roberts said, Madame WebBut the same couldn’t be said for Johnson, who plays the title role of Cathy Webb, a paramedic who gains supernatural powers after a near-death experience. The hustle and bustle she I wasn’t surprised The movie wasn’t a success.
“Unfortunately, I’m not surprised that it turned out the way it did,” the actress admitted in March, “But making that movie was definitely an experience for me. I’ve never done anything like that before, and I’ll probably never do anything like that again, because I don’t make sense in that world. I know that now.”
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