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Here's Why Materialists Star Dakota Johnson Says Hollywood Is A 'Mess'

Dakota Johnson said that Hollywood is a "bit of a mess" as the studios want to remake the same things again and again.

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Dakota Johnson at Cannes 2025 Photo: Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP
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Dakota Johnson, who is currently in the news for her new release, Materialists, thinks that Hollywood is a "bit of a mess" at the moment because studios remake "the same things."

As per a report in The Hollywood Reporter, the actress recently appeared on Hot Ones, where host Sean Evans asked her why she feels "Hollywood is so risk-averse," Johnson said, "I think it바카라™s hard when creative decisions are made by committee and it바카라™s hard when creative decisions are made by people who don바카라™t even really watch movies or know anything about them, and that tends to be what바카라™s occurring a lot."

The Fifty Shades of Grey actress also added, "When something does well, studios want to keep that going so they remake the same things" but people want to see fresh and experience new things. "I guess it바카라™s all just a bit of a mess right now, isn바카라™t it?," she added.

Coming back to Materialists, the film hit the theatres on June 13, 2025. Directed by Past Lives fame Celine Song, the film also stars Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal, alongside Dakota Johnson.

It also features Dasha Nekrasova, Sawyer Spielberg, Louisa Jacobson, Zoe Winters, Marin Ireland, Eddie Cahill, and Fernando Belo.

The romantic-comedy has opened to positive reviews from critics and audiences alike.

An excerpt from the Outlook India review of the film read: "At its heart, Materialists digs into the messy equation love and money share in today's world. When do the two become inextricable? What's the difference economic access makes to a relationship? Beyond make and break, how is the act of loving and togetherness filtered through scraping together a bare livelihood? When there are no money worries, how fundamentally does a couple바카라™s argument change?"

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