Dakota Johnson may very well be on her option to an Oscar down the road, however the “Materialists” star is first celebrating being part of the “Razzie Membership” because of Sandra Bullock.
Johnson earned her first Razzie Award for Worst Actress for comedian e-book flop “Madame Internet” (the movie additionally “received” Worst Screenplay and Worst Image earlier this 12 months.) Johnson’s fellow Razzie alum Bullock reached out to the actress to welcome her to the “membership,” as Johnson stated throughout Amy Poehler’s “Good Dangle” podcast.
“Sandra Bullock despatched me a voice word, being like, ‘I heard you might be within the Razzie Membership and we must always have brunch. We must always have like a month-to-month brunch,’” Johnson stated. “However I freaked out getting this message from her as a result of she’s so iconic to me, as a film star. I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, it was simply loopy.’”
Bullock famously received each a Razzie and an Oscar in the identical 12 months. Again in 2010, Bullock landed two Razzies for her position in “All About Steve,” one for Worst Actress and one for Worst Couple with co-star Bradley Cooper. Bullock later took dwelling the Academy Award for Finest Actress for “The Blind Aspect.”
The “Madame Internet” Razzies weren’t a shock to Johnson: The actress lately informed the Los Angeles Occasions that she was solely “alongside for the journey” of the movie. “There’s this factor that occurs now the place a whole lot of inventive selections are made by committee. Or made by individuals who don’t have a inventive bone of their physique,” she stated. “And it’s actually laborious to make artwork that manner. Or to make one thing entertaining that manner. And I feel sadly with ‘Madame Internet,’ it began out as one thing and become one thing else. And I used to be simply form of alongside for the journey at that time. However that occurs. Greater-budget motion pictures fail on a regular basis.”
Johnson beforehand lamented to Bustle in 2024 that she anticipated the crucial disdain for “Madame Internet,” saying, “Sadly, I’m not stunned that this has gone down the best way it has. […] It was undoubtedly an expertise for me to make that film. I had by no means executed something prefer it earlier than. I in all probability won’t ever do something prefer it once more as a result of I don’t make sense in that world. And I do know that now. However generally on this trade, you signal on to one thing, and it’s one factor after which as you’re making it, it turns into a totally completely different factor, and also you’re like, Wait, what? But it surely was an actual studying expertise, and naturally it’s not good to be part of one thing that’s ripped to shreds, however I can’t say that I don’t perceive.”