Dakota Johnson’s infamous line about spiders in the Amazon from the Madame Web trailer doesn’t make an appearance in the final cut of the film.
The line in question appeared in an early Madame Web trailer and offers a bit more information on main character Cassandra Webb’s background. Here's what she says: “Ezekiel Sims. He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died.”
Out of context, it’s somewhat of a nothing line, but its presentation in the trailer is… clunky at best. There was something about the bluntness with which it delivered the exposition that made it ripe for being memed, even if Johnson was confused when she learned of the line's virality.
However, IGN caught an early screening of the film and can confirm that the line is, sadly, never muttered altogether once in the movie’s nearly two-hour runtime. Only a portion of it - "she was researching spiders" - makes it to the final cut, as our review notes.
Madame Web comes to theaters tomorrow, February 14. We were unimpressed from our time with this psychological thriller take on the world of Spider-Man. In our 5/10 review, we said, “Madame Web has the makings of an interesting superhero psychological thriller, but with a script overcrowded with extraneous characters, basic archetypes, and generic dialogue, it fails the talent and the future of its onscreen Spider-Women.”
For more on Madame Web, be sure to read up on when Sydney Sweeney was bitten by a real-life spider while filming her recent rom com, Anyone But You. You can also check out footage for the next Sony spider-verse film, Kraven the Hunter, before it hits theaters later this year.
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