I used to be simply employed as an actress

Sydney Sweeney has addressed the field workplace flop of her newest movie, Sony‘s superhero flick Madame Internet.

Final month, Madame Internet premiered in cinemas all over the world on February 14, and in its first six days, it took simply $26.2 million (£20.8 million) within the US, and an additional $25.7 million (£20.4 million) internationally. This represents an underperformance, even in comparison with Sony’s current Morbius, which itself was seen as a industrial disappointment.

The movie has to date didn’t garner any industrial success, rending it a “flop” on the field workplace. Now, considered one of its stars, Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, Anybody However You, The White Lotus) has spoken concerning the movie’s failures and the way it’s affecting her.

Talking to The Los Angeles Instances lately, Sweeney revealed that the movie’s bust hasn’t actually affected her as others would possibly anticipate. Whereas that is the primary field workplace flop of Sweeney’s profession, she instructed the publication that she was “simply alongside for the journey”.

“I used to be simply employed as an actress in it, so I used to be simply alongside for the journey for no matter was going to occur, she instructed The Los Angeles Instances.

Sweeney is now the newest actor from Madame Internet to pan the movie. Earlier this month, the movie’s lead star Dakota Johnson stated that she was “not stunned” on the movie’s detrimental reception. She went on to elucidate: “It’s so laborious to get films made, and in these large films that get made — and it’s even beginning to occur with the little ones, which is what’s actually freaking me out — selections are being made by committees, and artwork doesn’t do nicely when it’s made by committee.”

Johnson added: “But it surely was undoubtedly an expertise for me to make that film. I had by no means accomplished 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 typically 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 very 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.”

Based mostly on the Marvel Comics character of the identical identify, Madame Internet stars Dakota Johnson within the lead function as a lady who develops psychic talents. The White Lotus’ Sydney Sweeney co-stars, as do Emma Roberts and Adam Scott.

The movie was met with an preliminary wave of detrimental opinions after its Los Angeles premiere, with some labelling it “an embarrassing mess”.