Back in the day, Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling were one of the cutest couples in Hollywood. Their on-screen romance sparked a real one and had many fans swooning over their love. But like many other things in the 2000s, their relationship sadly came to an end. Even still, we can’t help but reminisce about their iconic romance that lasted from 2005 to 2008. Here’s 10 things you may not know about Ryan and Rachel’s relationship:
10. At Odds
As the famous story goes, Ryan and Rachel first met each other when they were cast as love interests in the 2004 film The Notebook. But unlike their characters, the two could barely tolerate each other on the set. Director Nick Cassavetes told Us about the challenges he had in trying to keep the peace between them. “Ryan came to me, and there’s 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, ‘Nick come here.’ And he’s doing a scene with Rachel and he says, ‘Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?’ I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘I can’t. I can’t do it with her. I’m just not getting anything from this.'” In the hopes of trying to diffuse the situation, Nick brought the two actors into a separate room with one of the film’s producers. “They started screaming and yelling at each other,” he recalled. “I walked out. At that point I was smoking cigarettes. I smoked a cigarette and everybody came out like, ‘All right let’s do this.’ And it got better after that. They had it out…I think Ryan respected her for standing up for her character and Rachel was happy to get that out in the open. The rest of the film wasn’t smooth sailing, but it was smoother sailing.”
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