Marvelin elokuva Madame Web ei ole vielä saanut ensi-iltaansa, mutta jo nyt se näyttää muuttaneen tekijöidensä elämän. Elokuvaa tähdittävä Dakota Johnson on kertonut, että elokuva-alan näkymät ovat huonot.
L'Officielille puhunut Johnson kertoi alan paineista.
"I am discovering that it's really fucking 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 just fucking so hard. 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... 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."
Johnson vaikuttaa kuitenkin uskovan omaan rooliinsa Madame Webina.
"It was interesting to me that the main character's superpower is her mind, and that she is a woman. That is something that I can really get behind. That's very real to me, and it's really powerful and sexy... I think that the minds of women are incredibly powerful, so I think that it's a more relatable superhero. It is more of a psychological thriller. This film is a really fabulous departure for Marvel."