Dakota Johnson is placing Hollywood on blast.
The actress, 35, referred to as the trade “a mess”‘ in a scathing critique of Hollywood throughout a current look on “Hot Ones” for her “Materialists” press tour.
“I think it’s hard when creative decisions are made by committee and it’s hard when creative decisions are made by people who don’t even really watch movies or know anything about them, and that tends to be what’s occurring a lot,” Johnson stated when requested by host Sean Evans why “Hollywood is risk-averse.”
Johnson continued: “When something does well, studios want to keep that going so they remake the same things, but humans don’t want that. They want fresh, they want to feel new things, experience new things, see new things.”
“So I don’t know,” she added. “I guess it’s all just a bit of a mess right now, isn’t it?”
Final 12 months, Johnson’s Marvel film “Madame Web” famously flopped, main her to name out the “committee” behind the movie.
“It wasn’t my fault,” she instructed the Los Angeles Instances earlier this month. “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. Or to make something entertaining that way.”
Johnson added, “And I think unfortunately with ‘Madame Web,’ it started out as something and turned into something else. And I was just sort of along for the ride at that point. But that happens. Bigger-budget movies fail all the time.”
In a March 2024 interview with Bustle, Johnson blamed the studio system for the methods wherein it produces motion pictures.
“Films are made by a filmmaker and a team of artists around them. You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms,” she said. “My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not.”
“Audiences will always be able to sniff out bulls–t,” the “Fifty Shades” star famous. “Even if films start to be made with AI, humans aren’t going to f—ing want to see those.”
In “Materialists,” Johnson performs a New York Metropolis matchmaker who finds herself in a love triangle together with her excellent match (Pedro Pascal) and her lengthy misplaced love (Chris Evans).
“Materialists” is in theaters now.
