Dakota Johnson spotted with Chris Martin before going solo at Cannes

Hollywood actress Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin seem to be enjoying their personal time. The pair was recently spotted in California soaking in the sunshine together. The actress, 35, and the Coldplay frontman, 48, were photographed in Malibu, California before Johnson headed to France for the Cannes International Film Festival, reports ‘People’ magazine.

The couple opted for casual looks, with Johnson wearing her dark brown hair into two braids, a white bathing suit top, ankle-length leggings, a blue sweatshirt, light brown sandals and oversized oval black sunglasses. As per ‘People’, the Coldplay frontman wore a black baseball cap, navy blue shorts and a grey T-shirt. The engaged couple was last spotted in public together in January in Mumbai.

There, they were photographed spending time together in the city while Coldplay played multiple shows on their sold-out Music of the Spheres World Tour at Mumbai’s D Y Patil Stadium.

Martin told ‘Rolling Stone’ in December 2024 that Johnson is one of his “best friends”, along with his Coldplay bandmates, the group’s manager and his children, Apple Martin, 21, and Moses Martin, 19, whom he shares with ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow. “It is important to say that [romantic love] is such a big factor in everything, even though it feels right to keep it precious and private; I’m not denying its power”, he told the outlet, which noted Martin otherwise said the relationship is “just not his story to tell”.

The pair were first romantically linked in fall 2017, and then made their first public appearance in January 2018. They first sparked engagement rumours in 2020. However, in March 2024, a source said that the long-term couple had been engaged for “years”, adding that the couple “were in no rush to get married”.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival is at its halfway mark, but it’s been an attention-grabbing affair since its start — from new rules for its red carpets, nerves about potential US tariffs and the return of Tom Cruise. And that says nothing about the films, seen as a strong slate as Cannes has become increasingly important to the Oscars’ best picture hopefuls. As the festival enters its second week, it’s become clear that this year’s films are reckoning with geopolitical doom, climate change and other calamities that closely resemble current events. Even in a normal year, Cannes is a lot to keep up with. Here’s a handy guide of what’s happened so far, what to expect and what it may mean.

Monday brought a pair of surprises thanks to Spike Lee’s latest film, “Highest 2 Lowest.” The first was an honorary Palme d’Or for Denzel Washington, who arrived for the premiere on a whirlwind trip on his only day off from starring in “Othello” on Broadway. Cannes opened on Tuesday with a starry tribute to Robert De Niro, 49 years after “Taxi Driver” won the festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or. De Niro used his own honorary Palme to assail U.S. President Donald Trump, a frequent target of his criticism.

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