Irish Independent

The Allure of Threesomes

Team Hailey or Team Selena? Mr Big or Aidan? Edward or Jacob? The list goes on and on — whether in celebrity news, film or fiction, we simply can’t get enough of love triangles. These complex scenarios recur throughout history, from Greek mythology to Cleopatra’s relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to King Henry VIII’s fatal love triangles, and even the biblical story of Jacob and the sisters Leah and Rachel.

The romantic tug-of-war has a timeless appeal that we revisit again and again, whether in the plays of Shakespeare, the novels of Jane Austen or in modern cinema. This week sees another addition to the canon with the release of new romcom Materialists, about a New York City matchmaker played by Dakota Johnson, who is torn between a wealthy client (Pedro Pascal) and her broke ex-boyfriend (Chris Evans).