Dakota Johnson reveals message she received from Sandra Bullock after Razzies win
Dakota Johnson has revealed she received a message of encouragement from Sandra Bullock after being named ‘Worst Actress’ at the Razzies for her performance in Madame Web.
The Razzies run annually on Oscar weekend. However, rather than celebrating the best cinematic moments of the last 12 months like the Academy Awards, they hand out awards for the movies and performances they deem to be the worst.
At this year’s ceremony, she was not only named ‘Worst Actress’ at the Razzies, but Madame Web was also awarded ‘Worst Picture’.
Bullock previously won the ‘Worst Actress’ award for All About Steve in 2010 and took it in her stride by accepting the award in person. A day later, she won the ‘Best Actress’ award at the Oscars for The Blind Side.
In a new appearance on Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Johnson revealed how Bullock reached out following Madame Web’s humiliation at the Razzies, sharing, “Sandra Bullock sent me a voice note being like ‘I heard you are in the Razzie club, and we should have brunch. We should have like a monthly brunch. Because I guess she won that the year that she won the Oscar as well.”
Johnson continued: “I freaked out getting this message from her because she’s so iconic to me, as like a movie star. I was like, ‘Oh my god.”
The actor then explained why she didn’t take the Razzie and criticism to Madame Web to heart because she accepts that “we don’t have control of how something turns out any more”. She continued to reflect, “I’ve signed on to a movie that is, by the end of shooting it, a completely different script to the one I was attached to, which is a wild thing.”
Similarly, during a recent interview with the LA Times, “It wasn’t my fault. There’s this thing that happens now where a lot of creative decisions are made by committee. Or made by people who don’t have a creative bone in their body. And it’s really hard to make art that way.”
Johnson is currently promoting Celine Song’s Materialists, which also stars Pedro Pascal and Chris Pratt. It will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on August 16th and in the US on June 13th.
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