Judging from the previews for “Madame Web,” Johnson spends a portion of the movie working as a paramedic for the New York Fire Department. Adam Scott seems to play her co-pilot and might also be Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben (although that detail hasn’t yet been confirmed by the studio). This means that Johnson had to learn how to drive an ambulance. It seems she also did some high-octane driving in multiple vehicles during a single dramatic day during the film’s production. Johnson said:
“I got to do a day of stunt driving work, and I’m really good at it, it seems! […] I mean, I can do some really wild things with a car. I drove an ambulance. I drove a taxicab. I drove everything in the movie — except for flying through the air and out of a building. But other than that, I’m like, ‘Watch out, Tom Cruise.'”
Johnson has appeared in several action-adjacent films in the past, including “21 Jump Street,” or perhaps “Black Mass,” but “Madame Web” will be the first time she stars as an action heroine.
One cannot speak to the quality of “Madame Web” until we see it, of course. It could be the best superhero movie to date, or the worst ever made. At the very least, Johnson got a taste for stunt driving, and may find herself, in only a few more years, leading her own “Mission: Impossible”-style action franchise where she does her own stunts. After all, Tom Cruise used to star in a wide variety of comedies, dramas, and romances before settling into the “Mission: Impossible” groove late in his career. Perhaps Johnson will follow a similar arc.