Glen Powell Reveals Why He Leaned Into Sydney Sweeney Dating Rumors

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Sydney Sweeney Addresses Glen Powell Affair Rumors successful SNL Monologue

Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney know however to make a showmance.

Not lone did the brace bargain hearts arsenic rivals-turned-lovers successful Anyone But You, but they besides managed to transmission real-life romance rumors into container bureau success. As it turns out, Sydney was completely successful power of the dating speculation, according to her costar.

"The 2 things that you person to merchantability a rom-com are amusive and chemistry," Glen told the New York Times in an interrogation published April 24. "Sydney and I person a ton of amusive together, and we person a ton of effortless chemistry. That's radical wanting what's connected the surface disconnected the screen, and sometimes you conscionable person to thin into it a bit—and it worked wonderfully. Sydney is precise smart."

And as both the rom-com's prima and enforcement producer, Sydney said she was "on each call" regarding the unsocial selling strategy.

"I was astir apt keeping everybody implicit astatine Sony selling and organisation awake astatine nighttime due to the fact that I couldn't halt with ideas," the Euphoria actress—who is engaged to her producing spouse Jonathan Davino—told the Times. "I wanted to marque definite that we were actively having a speech with the assemblage arsenic we were promoting this film, due to the fact that astatine the extremity of the day, they're the ones who created the full narrative." 

Indeed, rumors that the costars were progressive successful an matter surfaced past April, erstwhile Glen broke up with model Gigi Paris after a twelvemonth of dating. Coupled with their friendliness during the promotional tour, online speculation went into overdrive, starring to Anyone But You to go 1 of the highest-grossing films of 2024 truthful far.

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Since then, Sydney has had a spot of amusive successful addressing the buzz surrounding herself and Glen. While hosting Saturday Night Live in March, she thanked her fiancé for being determination to enactment her earlier cameras jokingly panned to Glen sitting successful the audience.

"That's not my fiancé," Sydney quipped. "He's successful my dressing room!"

For much onscreen couples who person really ne'er dated IRL, support reading.

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Emma Watson and Tom Felton

Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy?! If Emma had it her way, the Harry Potter franchise would person had a Hogwarts House-crossed romance going down off-screen. The histrion has admitted to nursing a superior crush connected her bleached blonde co-star.

During the caller Harry Potter 20th day special, Emma shared that arsenic a kid she "fell successful love" with Tom portion connected the acceptable of their archetypal movie together, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"I utilized to travel successful each time and look for his fig connected the telephone sheet, it was No. 7, and if his sanction was connected the telephone sheet, it was an other breathtaking day," she said during the reunion. "He was 3 years supra maine and truthful for him helium was like, 'You're similar my small sister.'"

Shortly after the peculiar premiered, fans of the bid rapidly took to the Internet to stock their privation for the longtime friends to go thing more.

However, successful an interrogation with British Vogue, Emma addressed the online absorption and enactment immoderate imaginable dating rumors to rest. "We talk astir weeks," she said, "and we conscionable deliberation it's sweet."

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Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer

The 1 wherever Ross and Rachel were astir each other's lobsters successful real-life.

During HBO Max's Friends reunion past year, Jennifer and David, who played 1 of TV's astir beloved couples, explained that creation reflected existent beingness a spot during the show's archetypal season. "At immoderate point, we were some crushing hard connected each other, but it was similar 2 ships passing due to the fact that 1 of america was ever successful a relationship, and we ne'er crossed that boundary," David said. "We respected that."

Jennifer added, "Honestly, I retrieve saying 1 clip to David, 'It's going to beryllium specified a bummer if the archetypal clip you and I really buss is going to beryllium connected nationalist television.' And definite enough, the archetypal clip we kissed was successful that java shop."

So, alternatively of having a romance IRL, she explained that they "just channeled each of our adoration and emotion for each different into Ross and Rachel."

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet

Arguably 1 of the astir iconic pairings successful movie history, fans person shipped Leo and Kate unneurotic since 1996's Titanic (even though she didn't marque country for him connected that door). Still, they ne'er fto spell of their friendship, with Kate telling The Guardian past twelvemonth that they are "bonded for life." 

From walking the reddish carpet unneurotic astatine the 1998 Golden Globes to watching DiCaprio stroke kisses to Winslet during her affectional 2009 Golden Globes speech, it's truthful evident that the feelings betwixt the besties person lone continued to turn implicit the past 2 decades, iceberg beryllium damned.

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Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper

The unexpected pairing's chemistry successful 2019's A Star Is Born and its ensuing property circuit made fans unsighted to the information that the histrion and manager was dating Irina Shayk and the popular prima was engaged to Christian Carano.

Still, it was wide that the costars had a adjacent bond, with Gaga revealing that she had an "instant connection" with Bradley that came "the 2nd that I saw him."

Of course, that closeness was connected afloat show erstwhile the brace took to the Oscars signifier successful 2019, hand-in-hand, to execute their Best Song-winning number, "Shallow," conscionable days aft Gaga ended her engagement. 

But the House of Gucci prima rapidly unopen down romance rumors pursuing the performance, telling Jimmy Kimmel, "Yes, radical saw emotion and—guess what—that's what we wanted you to see."

Bradley, whose romance with Irina ended aboriginal that year, ne'er addressed the speculation until November 2021, telling The Hollywood Reporter they were acting during the Oscar performance.

"They benignant of autumn successful emotion successful that country successful the film," helium explained. "It's that explosive infinitesimal that happens to them connected a signifier successful beforehand of thousands of people…It would person been truthful weird if we were some connected stools facing the audience."

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Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves

Since starring in Speed unneurotic successful 1994, rumors person raced implicit the decades that Keanu and Sandra had an off-screen romance. Alas, it was ne'er meant to me, with Sandra denying the 2 were ever a mates successful an interrogation with Esquire magazine.

"Nope...but who knows?," she said. "Keanu's a feline who, I consciousness like, is friends with each pistillate he's ever dated. I don't deliberation there's anyone who has thing horrible to accidental astir him. So possibly we could person survived. I don't know. But we didn't person to past anything. We conscionable get to turn up unneurotic connected parallel roads and extremity our hats and conscionable for a meal and effort to enactment together. And the longer clip goes on, the much successful awe I americium of the quality being. Would I person been capable to accidental that if helium had dumped maine and made maine angry? Probably not."

Still, the duo, who besides co-starred successful 2006's The Lake House, are adjacent friends, with Sandra citing Keanu's listening skills arsenic 1 of his champion attributes. 

The Miss Congeniality star recalled that astir a twelvemonth aft filming Speed, she casually mentioned to her co-star that she'd ne'er had champagne and truffles. A fewer days later, she told the outlet, Keanu hand-delivered those 2 items (and flowers), explaining, "I conscionable thought you mightiness privation to effort champagne and truffles, to spot what it's like."

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Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone

Moviegoers person Crazy, Stupid, Love for this pairing aft they've played romanticist interests successful 3 films, including La La Land.

Though they ne'er dated successful existent life, moving together forged a enslaved betwixt the 2 actors. During a Q&A league astatine the 2018 Telluride Film Festival, the Cruella star revealed however overmuch Ryan meant to her and his interaction connected her beingness and career. Calling him a "dear, fantastic friend," Emma said, "I can't adjacent ideate what my beingness would beryllium without Ryan. She past added, "He's truthful special. It makes maine emotional."

And earlier La La Land debuted successful 2016, Emma joked astir astir the fig of films she's done with Ryan, telling E! News, "He has a restraining bid against maine now."

"Restraining order" aside, Ryan said it was "great to work" with Emma, explaining, "I deliberation it brings the champion retired of [us] because you cognize 1 another, and you are capable to assistance each different successful a mode that you can't if you're strangers."

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John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer

Jim and Pam connected The Office are 1 of the astir beloved TV couples of all-time, with fans rooting for the Dunder Mifflin employees to beryllium unneurotic passim the NBC hit's nine-year run. 

Jam's chemistry ne'er transitioned into an off-screen romance betwixt John and Jenna, though she did admit to the brace having "real chemistry" during a 2016 quality connected Watch What Happens Live erstwhile a caller asked however adjacent they were.

"There's similar a existent portion of maine that is Pam and a existent portion of him that's Jim and those parts of america were genuinely successful emotion with 1 another," Jenna explained. "But successful existent beingness we aren't wholly Pam and wholly Jim, truthful successful existent beingness we're not the cleanable match…he was similar a benignant of spouse that I had for a agelong time, helium was my spouse and we volition ever beryllium adjacent due to the fact that of it."

John aboriginal weighed successful connected his co-star's headline-making comments, telling The Daily Beast, "I deliberation we some consciousness it's specified an grant to beryllium a portion of that relationship. As acold arsenic however she was quoted astir saying we were 'genuinely successful love,' I deliberation that was taken wildly retired of discourse and I consciousness atrocious for her."

We'll ever person the teapot. 

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Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence

Gaga isn't the archetypal co-star Bradley has been romantically linked to successful the press, with his on-screen dynamic with Jennifer successful movies specified arsenic Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle sparking rumors for years. 

In fact, Bradley was asked by Howard Stern successful 2015, "When are you 2 gonna person sex? Everyone is waiting for that." Bradley was speedy to respond, "Never. It's conscionable not the mode we are together."

And, astatine the 2013 Golden Globes, erstwhile helium was asked by Entertainment Tonight if they were were dating, Bradley responded, "Oh my God. That's precise funny. No, my God, no."

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Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson

They whitethorn person co-starred successful How to Lose a Guy successful 10 Days, but the brace gained a accelerated fig of fans rooting for them to find each different IRL aft the 2006 rom-com. But it ne'er happened.

In an interrogation with Howard Stern connected his SiriusXM amusement successful October 2020, Matthew revealed it simply ne'er appealed to him to day 1 of his celebrated co-stars.

"I've ever tried to support it nonrecreational and the radical I worked with, I indispensable say, did it well," helium shared. "Maybe we had definite crushes connected each different astatine definite times but we ever conscionable kept it professional."

And with that, the accidental for their emotion to blossom died, conscionable similar that emotion fern.

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George Clooney and Julia Roberts

These A-list champion friends person off-the-charts on-screen chemistry (Ocean's Eleven, anyone?) that has extended off-screen successful a purely platonic way. Just look astatine their giggle-filled interviews, gushing nationalist speeches and the information that George has lent retired his coveted Lake Como location to the Roberts-Moder household for day celebrations. NBD!

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Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen

Along with the shot dropping connected New Year's Eve, you tin ever number connected radical wondering if the champion friends and CNN's Live From Times Square co-hosts person ever dated. 

When Andy appeared connected Howard Stern's vigor show, helium was asked, "What is it astir Anderson Cooper that keeps you from falling successful emotion with him?" The Watch What Happens Live big replied, "I conscionable deliberation it's not what our narration is based on. We're conscionable friends. That's not a portion of it. I think, astatine this point, we cognize each different excessively well. We're not attracted to each different successful that way."

Funnily enough, the brace archetypal met erstwhile they were acceptable up connected a unsighted day implicit 25 years ago. 

"You cognize erstwhile consecutive radical cognize 2 cheery guys, they're like, 'Oh, you guys should meet,'" Anderson said connected The Tonight Show successful 2017, adding that erstwhile the 2 had a telephone telephone to schedule the date, he "knew wrong 45 seconds I was ne'er going connected a day with Andy Cohen."

He explained that Andy "violated" a cardinal rule" erstwhile it comes to dating the CNN host: He asked astir Anderson's mother, Gloria Vanderbilt

"I wanted to day the Vanderbilt boy!" Andy admitted. "I was excited!" 

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Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

While Zooey said the brace had "so overmuch fun" making the 2009 indie rom-com (500) Days of Summer, Joseph admitted dating his co-star and longtime person would beryllium "awkward" successful a 2012 interrogation with Playboy.

"Zooey and I conscionable deliberation it's funny," helium said of fans wanting them to beryllium together. "It is funny. We've been friends for 10 years."

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Zac Efron and Ashley Tisdale

Before it was confirmed that the High School Musical heartthrob was dating his co-star Vanessa Hudgens, determination was speculation that helium was progressive with their communal champion person Ashley. His 2006 impermanent quality arsenic her emotion involvement connected The Suite Life of Zack and Cody lone fueled the rumors.

Zac and Ashley inactive stay adjacent to this day, with Ashley calling him her "brother/best friend," though she did pick Zac arsenic her worst onscreen buss successful an interrogation with Elle

"It was the worst due to the fact that helium is similar my brother," she explained. "At the time, helium was utilized to acting connected Warner Brothers, which is CW, and we were connected Disney Channel."

She past called him retired for trying to buss her "with his tongue," prompting her to archer him, "'Get distant from me!'"

"I closed my rima truthful fast. I was like, 'This is Disney Channel, we don't buss similar that connected Disney Channel!'" Ashley recalled. "It's conscionable weird erstwhile you're truthful adjacent to somebody, we'd already done a movie, I'd known him for years before,'" she said. "'That is wherefore it was the worst, it's conscionable we're excessively close.'"

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Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman

While their High School Musical characters Chad and Taylor were teen sweethearts, Corbin and Monique near the Disney franchise with a life-long friendship. 

The duo reunited on-screen successful the 2021 Lifetime Christmas movie, A Christmas Dance Reunion, with Corbin penning connected Instagram, "After 13 years it felt similar coming location moving and dancing with [Monique] again. Starring successful a [Lifetime] Christmas movie has ever been a imagination of mine, but ne'er successful a cardinal years did I deliberation I'd get to stock the surface with 1 of my favourite people."

And Monique is hoping to proceed moving with "one of her champion friends," telling People, "I honestly commune that we get to bash much things unneurotic due to the fact that we person that benignant of spark that Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan had, and Leo and Kate, and Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and each of these antithetic couples that we've seen successful movie aft movie together. I truly consciousness similar we person that imaginable arsenic good and I'd similar to spot that happen."

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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson

They whitethorn person played 1 of TV's astir iconic will-they-or-won't-they couples on The X-Files, but the co-stars really didn't get on portion filming their deed Fox show. 

In a 2008 interrogation with Metro UK, David admitted that helium often fought with Gillian during the series' archetypal eight-year tally because, "Familiarity breeds contempt. It's thing to bash with the different person. We utilized to reason astir nothing. We couldn't basal the show of each other."

That didn't halt fans from wanting Mulder and Scully to get together, some on-screen and off, with a photograph from their May 2021 luncheon day going viral, overmuch to David's amusement. 

"As I was leaving she was like, 'Let's instrumentality a photo,'" helium told People. "I was told determination was a large absorption to it! I ne'er get that stuff, but it's truly chill that radical are funny aft each these years."

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Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson

Avengers shippers, assemble!

While they've appeared successful 8 movies unneurotic since archetypal collaborating connected 2004's The Perfect Score, the superhero co-stars person ne'er hooked up IRL. But Scarlett and Chris person developed a heavy comfortableness level with each different implicit the years. 

"It's truly a effect of 10 years of knowing idiosyncratic and being capable to person a benignant of intimacy with them that I deliberation you get from conscionable spending a batch of clip with idiosyncratic and knowing their brushed underbelly," Johansson explained of their chemistry to Entertainment Weekly successful March 2020.

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