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Materialists Offers a Frank Take on Love and Money That’s Long Overdue
What Celine Song’s love triangle between Pedro Pascal, Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans says about the dating market.
Illustration by Marie Mohanna for Bloomberg Pursuits
Before Past Lives director Celine Song was an Oscar nominee, she was a struggling playwright in New York who needed to pay rent. So, for about six months, she worked for a matchmaking company, trying to help singles find life partners in the city’s grueling dating arena.
The then late-twentysomething met people she didn’t normally encounter in her artistic life (financiers, doctors, lawyers) and asked them what they were looking for in a partner. They were frank, trading old-fashioned ideas of romance for cold, hard statistics.