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‘Materialists’ Director Celine Song on Exploring the ‘Brutal’ Aspects of Modern Dating and Seeing Movie Stars as More Than ‘Merchandise’
Celine Song explains why she wanted to explore modern dating in her A24 movie 'Materialists,' starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans & Pedro Pascal.
And Song is embracing her title as one of the queens of cinema during this hot weather season — especially given that her directorial debut, “Past Lives,” also hit theaters in June on its way to grossing $42.6 million at the box office and earning two Academy Award nominations, including one for best picture. Weddings are central to the plot of “Materialists” which stars Dakota Johnson as Lucy, a successful matchmaker living in New York City, whose own love life gets quite tangled when she finds herself sandwiched between her starving actor ex-boyfriend John (Chris Evans) and a wealthy new beau, Harry (Pedro Pascal). The romantic drama is informed by Song’s experience working as a matchmaker when she was an aspiring playwright — a six-month stint where she observed and absorbed a lot about how the modern dating market operates and the ways people view their prospective partners.
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