Sydney Sweeney Unfazed by MADAME WEB Flop Says, "I Was Just Hired as an Actress in It, so I Was Just Along for the Ride"

It’s been unanimously decided by movie fans everywhere that Sony’s Madame Web was among the worst of the Spider-Verse movies the studio has made, right up there with Morbius. These two movies made the ridiculous Venom franchise seem decent, which is just silly, but it’s what Sony has given us to work with.

As for the stars of Madame Web, Dakota Johnson already spoke out, saying that she won’t be making a movie like that again, as the end result was not the film she initially signed up for.

Now, her co-star Sydney Sweeney, who has seen major recent success in the box office for her romantic comedy Anyone But You, is also talking about her experience making the superhero film, but seems much less fazed by the flop, telling the Los Angeles Times:

“I was just hired as an actress in it, so I was just along for the ride for whatever was going to happen.”

Sweeney played Julia Cornwall in the film, an iteration of Spider-Woman. The comic book film has grossed $42 million so far at the domestic box office, and its worldwide gross remains under the $100 million. Critics also eviscerated the film (it boasts a 12% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 225 reviews). The movie became such a punching bag that Sweeney herself joked about it on Saturday Night Live (“You definitely didn’t see me in Madame Web,” she joked), while Jimmy Kimmel even had a Madame Web dig in his monologue at the Oscars.

It’s too bad that Sony wasted all that time, money and talent on such a crappy flick, but the actors involved won’t have any trouble moving on, as they are established, talented, and well-received. Sweeney’s next film, the religious psychological horror thriller Immaculate, opens in theaters on March 22nd from Neon.

via: Variety