Dakota Johnson could be on her way to an Oscar down the line, but the “Materialists” star is first celebrating being a part of the “Razzie Club” thanks to Sandra Bullock.
Johnson earned her first Razzie Award for Worst Actress for comic book flop “Madame Web” (the film also “won” Worst Screenplay and Worst Picture earlier this year.) Johnson’s fellow Razzie alum Bullock reached out to the actress to welcome her to the “club,” as Johnson said during Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast.
“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,’” Johnson said. “But I freaked out getting this message from her because she’s so iconic to me, as a movie star. I was like, ‘Oh my god, it was just crazy.’”
Bullock famously won both a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year. Back in 2010, Bullock landed two Razzies for her role in “All About Steve,” one for Worst Actress and one for Worst Couple with co-star Bradley Cooper. Bullock later took home the Academy Award for Best Actress for “The Blind Side.”
The “Madame Web” Razzies weren’t a surprise to Johnson: The actress recently told the Los Angeles Times that she was only “along for the ride” of the film. “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,” she said. “And it’s really hard to make art that way. Or to make something entertaining that way. 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.”
Johnson previously lamented to Bustle in 2024 that she anticipated the critical disdain for “Madame Web,” saying, “Unfortunately, I’m not surprised that this has gone down the way it has. […] It was definitely an experience for me to make that movie. I had never done anything like it before. I probably will never do anything like it again because I don’t make sense in that world. And I know that now. But sometimes in this industry, you sign on to something, and it’s one thing and then as you’re making it, it becomes a completely different thing, and you’re like, Wait, what? But it was a real learning experience, and of course it’s not nice to be a part of something that’s ripped to shreds, but I can’t say that I don’t understand.”
