New Interview of Dakota, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal about "Materialists" for Empire Magazine

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In Materialists, Dakota Johnson's matchmaker must choose between Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal.

We squeeze onto a sofa with the trio to discuss love and money.

Give anyone the task of naming the most influential, charming stars of today, and odds are Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal would make that list. Who better to bring them together in a thorny love triangle than film director Celine Song, who brings them together—directed by decades of unfulfilled desire.

Materialists is more than just a trope role-reversal. All three actors take up roles that tantalising all the same: Johnson plays Lucy, a calculating art market economist who’s working as a matchmaker. Chris Evans plays one of the men, bright, good looking and some of their shared history makes him more difficult to resist. Pedro Pascal plays the other. It’s a classic romantic triangle, given a fresh edge by Song’s deeply felt perspective on love and longing. (Which you may remember if you saw her breakout Past Lives.)

The trio sit down in a North London studio to discuss their chemistry on set, how the film reflects their relationships to money and love—and why the best scenes are the ones that sneak up on you. Johnson, who is also a producer on the film, says she’s proud of Love. And it is another worthy entry into the list of ambitious romantic comedies that explore whether it’s not enough to sustain a relationship.

UPDATED: New Interview + Photoshoot of Dakota for ELLE UK Magazine - June 2025 Issue

New Interview of Dakota with OK! Magazine UK - June 2020

   

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It was almost written in the stars for Dakota Johnson that she would become a successful actress, being the daughter of Hollywood legends Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith.

The 30-year-old has a breakout role in the Fifty Shades Franchise, and has since starred in How To Be single. Her latest film is feel-good comedy The High Note. Dakota plays Maggie, who is an assitant to a pop star who aspires to be more.

While Dakota's upbringing meant her talent was nurtured, it hasn't made her comfortable with fame or the interest in her personale life. Even though she's been dating Coldplay frontman Chris Martin for three years, she has never posted a photo of them together on social media. "I'm both lucky and I also find it difficult," she explains of her complicated relationship with being the public eye.

She doesn't keep everything to herself though. She has previously given fans an insight into her battles with mental health. "I've struggled with depression since I was young - since I was 14 or 15." She continued, "But I've learnt to find it beautiful because I feel the world. I guess I have a lot of complexities, bur they don't pour out of me."

Here, Dakota give us a small glimpse into her life.

Is it a conscious decision to not share much about your life on social media?
Yes - It's much more important to me to protect my privacy and my personal life than it is for me to market myself. I value my life. I also really value my relationships and I respect them. I don't need to flaunt muyself on the internet.

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Cailee Spaeney interviews Dakota about her style for the InStyle Magazine [March 2020 Issue]

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CAILEE SPAENY: So, Dakota, you already know how much I love you, so it'll be easy to talk about your style right now. Your looks are just full-on cool girl. You have this perfect, effortless mix with all your blazers and your distressed jeans.

DAKOTA JOHNSON: Aw, Cailee! But, you know, I'm a real slob, and when you throw a blazer over anything, it looks chic.

CS: OK, that's true. [laughs]

DJ: You know, I love you, too. When we first met [on the set of Bad Times at the El Royale], I thought you were the most intense young woman I'd ever met. When you're nervous, you just get really serious. But it comes off like, "I am as deep as the ocean."

CS: Oh my god, I'm so red right now. But then you were basically like, "I'm gonna take care of you on this journey." And you did! We would always do those PopSugar quizzes together, like "What flavor ice cream are you" or "What Disney pricess are you?"

New Interview of Dakota in iO Donna Italy [December 29th, 2018]

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Yet it is angelicata. Able to make a diva entry even in a Sabbath, resistant to all effects of the "terrible" that the director Luca Guadagnino built around her and the other ladies of Suspiria (Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Sylvie Testud, Angela Winkler), Dakota Johnson actually exudes delicacy. In the cruelty of history of which the film is nourished (six acts and an epilogue set in Berlin in 1977, close to the Wall, in the background the tug of war between the German government and the kidnappers of the head of Confindustria Hanns-Martin Schleyer, ex-officer of the SS) she brings beauty: in the den of witches that is the Markos Tanz Company enters dancing. Dance macabre, of course, but very powerful. Susie/Dakota hovers higher and higher and, at every jump, a more ferocious blow hits the body of a poor unhappy woman who dared to doubt the power of witches.

Power and repression, the mother as an archetypal figure (that of Susie the bubble right away, in the distant Ohio from which it comes, as "seed of evil"), the oblivion of the past (the great German removed) and the need to understand it , even psychoanalyzed: climb on the carousel of the film - which is a horror but, to want us to do the accounts, is more scary when you have already left the cinema - gives dizziness. Yet Dakota Johnson, pedigree and experience, knows that she will have to come down to earth and answer questions about magic and mystery and she does it with grace and discipline: "As a child I believed and believe in it now...but not abracadabra...Oh my God, how can I say it without being extrapolated from the context and someone titles:" Dakota Johnson is obsessed with magic"? ».

They just gave her a pregnancy for freeing blue balloons (so it was a boy) on her birthday with her boyfriend Chris Martin. They had given her a nervous breakdown for working in a film like this, "psychologically intense". Yet there is no joke that those lips can not pronounce. As a professional: atrocious and merciful, as required (the essence of dance? "Like fucking." "A man?" "I thought of an animal" the answer).

Spectators and critics come out of Suspiria's projections with mixed feelings, fear, certain discomfort, but also an unexpected sadness. Would you have expected it?

Dakota: Suspiria speaks of an autumn. Of Germany, of Europe, and of its sense of guilt. My character comes from afar, from a religious community closed to the outside world, the two stories are born of mourning. There are many reasons for sadness. But there is plenty of blood, on the set we had to be careful not to slide over...

New Interview of Dakota in F Magazine Italy [October 31st, 2018]

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Your appeal has caused quite a stir. Have you ever been abused?

Dakota: Luckily, I've never been bothered, on and off the set. I grew up in this environment and I soon learned how to avoid uncomfortable situations. Even though my mum Melanie feared for me at the beginning of my career, I always got away with it. Unfortunately, other actresses have not been so lucky.

In her latest film Bad Times At The El Royale, just presented at the Rome Film Festival, you are one of the mysterious characters who meet up at a hotel: a strong woman with a gun in her hand. Does that describe her?

Dakota: It's a crossover between The Bride/Beatrix from Kill Bill and a fool of Sin City. My Emily is a bit androfina, and she speaks little: to communicate she uses more eyes and actions. It reminded me of Steve McQueen, who is one of my absolute idols. In addition to my father of course!

New Picture of Dakota as Susie Bannion in "Suspiria" - Total Film Magazine [November 2018]

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"Bad Times At The El Royale" In Empire Magazine [October 2018 Issue]

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New Photoshoot of Dakota and Jamie in "Prestige" Magazine [February 2018]

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Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson

She is the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, who has made a name for herself in the movie industry. He is a happily married father-of-one who isn't scared of playing complex and dark characters. Together, Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, they form one of the hottest on-screen couple: Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. Prestige sat down with both of them to talk about their real-life friendship, their respective characters and filming the third movie of the Fifty Shades series, Fifty Shades Freed, out on the 8th of February across Lebanon.

Now that the third and last movie of the Fifty Shades series is completed, how do you feel? 

Dakota: I feel nostalgic, grateful for the experience and excited for the future.

How was the last day on set? 

Dakota: It was very surreal, we had worked all night and were waiting for the sun to come out for the last shot, but it seemed like it never would! We were waiting and waiting...and then finally we got the shot and it was a beautiful morning.

After Anastasia reconnects with Christian in the second film, but under her terms, how does their relationship evolve now in Fifty Shades Freed? 

Dakota: I think that in this film both Anastasia and Christian have figured out that it's going to be a constant flux of control and power between both of them. But, because they have decided to get married, they have made a conscious decision to honor each other and focus on their relationship as something that has a life of its own. That way, no outside influence or threat can tarnish it. That being said, Anastasia has acknowledged and accepted the more sexual and dominating side of herself, which is a driving force in the film.

New "Fifty Shades Freed" Promo Picture in "Hoy Mujer" Magazine Spain [February 3rd, 2018]

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New "Fifty Shades Freed" Picture Promo in "Look" Magazine Austria [February 2018]

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New Interview + Photoshoot of Dakota and Jamie for 8 Days Magazine

New Interview + Picture of Dakota in Best Movie Italia [February 2018 Issue]

New Interview of Dakota in "People" South Africa [January 24th, 2018 Issue]

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It's been a long time coming but Dakota Johnson is finally getting the earth-shattering Fifty Shades climax she's been waiting for. In fact, the 28-year-old actress has had to hold off her last lusty liaison with Hollywood's steamiest ever film franchise for much longer than you might think. Fifty Shades Freed, the last movie in based on E.L James' bestselling books, was shot back-to-back with the first Fifty Shades sequel, meaning cast and crew have had to wait almost two years for their big climax. It's perhaps of no surprise then that Dakota seems as much relieved as she does excited to see the end of her Fifty Shades experience hit screens in time for Valentine's day. The actress was best known for being the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson when she beat hundreds of hopefuls to the role of Anastasia Steele.