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This focus on Rumi’s central story unfortunately meant that questions about her bandmates and even their mentor Celine were left unanswered.

“We have actual storyboards that we created and had, at one point, put into the cut, of the girls coming together and meeting for the first time and training with Celine. It didn’t fit into the movie. At a certain point, the movie starts to tell you what it wants to be, and it just rejected it. It was like, ‘This is not the movie that I am.’

This year, the award-winning actor reprised his role as Joel Miller in the second season of HBO’s hit series “The Last of Us” and starred in Celine Song’s romance film “Materialists,” where he plays Harry Castillo, a desirable bachelor.

Everything from writer-director Celine Song’s screenplay to Lucy’s canonical salary and a trenchcoat she wears during one sequence has become the fodder of critique.

Watching “Materialists,” Celine Song’s star-studded, highly anticipated follow-up to her 2023 debut, “Past Lives,” it’s hard not to imagine the writer-director working over her laptop late at night, deep into her screenplay, lighting up a Marlboro Red and uttering the same three words.