Sandra Bullock Messaged Dakota Johnson After ‘Madame Web’ Razzie Win

After being honored with the Razzie Award for Worst Actress, Dakota Johnson revealed that she got a congratulatory note from none other than fellow Razzie icon and winner, Sandra Bullock.

On Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, Johnson shared the story after being asked about actors she admired, discussing the Razzie victory with the kind of shady good humor that’s become her trademark. “I got a voice note from Sandra Bullock, because — I don’t know if you know — but I won the Razzie for Worst Actress,” Johnson quipped with put-upon humility.

When Poehler asked what movie she won it for, Johnson said, “This really good movie called Madame Web, I don’t know if you’ve heard of it.” (This was, actually, Johnson’s second Golden Raspberry, having won the award previously in 2015 for Fifty Shades of Grey.)

But the real prize was the message from Bullock, who told her, “I heard you are in the Razzie Club, we should have brunch, like a monthly brunch.”

Johnson continued: “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 won her Worst Actress Razzie for All About Steve in 2010, just one year after winning Best Actress at the Oscars for The Blind Side. According to Johnson, Bullock even contacted the Razzies and asked for a physical award. And while she did pick one up, Johnson said, the Razzies later called Bullock back and asked her to return the trophy “because they only had one.”

A few moments later, Poehler asked Johnson more broadly about how she spoke and joked about her Razzie, how it tied into the projects she picks as an actress, and the humor she brings to her work. Johnson replied by noting how actors, and sometimes even directors, often don’t have total control over how a project turns out, and that she’s frequently started shooting a film that, by the end, is “completely different” from what she originally signed on to do. 

“That is a wild thing,” she said. “A crazy journey to go on as an artist, because you’re like, ‘OK, I’m doing something with my actual and my actual mind, my heart, my emotions … And it’s just being taken and fucked with.’ But you can’t do anything about it. Like, what am I going to do? Cry about Madame Web? No. I’m gonna laugh about it.”