
In the 2025 film Materialists, Lucy (Dakota Johnson) and her ex-boyfriend John (Chris Evans) reconnect as she is trying to figure out her own love life with Harry (Pedro Pascal). One part of the film people love to harp on is John’s wealth.
John is not rich. He’s a failed actor who still has roommates in New York City and part of their issues as a couple were rooted in his inability to buy Lucy expensive dinners. John’s monetary situation had nothing really to do with him and everything to do with Lucy and her own relationship to wealth. She’d rather allow a relationship to fall apart because of material things than figure out their reality.