1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,800 Hey guys, this is Mel. If you're listening to this, you 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,560 are about to hear a super special sneak peek of our latest 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,600 bonus episode. But fair warning, this is just a 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,400 sneak peek. Don't hurt us. 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:15,040 It's totally optional to subscribe but. 6 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:15,920 If you're. Interested. 7 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,120 You can check out our. Patreon by searching significant 8 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,840 lovers. Patreon Online. 9 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:32,920 Hope you enjoy. And at this point, she's pretty 10 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,560 much established as a rising star herself, so I feel like her 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,480 and Ryan are kind of like at the same place. 12 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,040 Are these OK? Careers at this point, these are 13 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,320 are the adjectives that have been described, but also how I 14 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,080 perceive the person. So for Reese, I said. 15 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:54,400 Ambitious, polite, vibrant, considerate, strong willed, the 16 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,760 generous, well organized, a natural born leader. 17 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,120 All American like, good girl like. 18 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,960 I love it, Ryan. Ryan, like I tell me I don't, I 19 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:10,120 don't know him, but I did get the sense that he is like kind 20 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,760 of a macho guy, but like a little lost about who he is 21 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,880 maybe. Okay, the worst to be described 22 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,160 as. There will be a lot, but right 23 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,960 now it's 1997. They are young. 24 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:30,080 It is Reese's 21st birthday, and Ryan tags along with a mutual 25 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,840 friend to attend the party, he told the e-news in 1999. 26 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,240 I went with a friend because I knew there would be food and 27 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,080 drinks, and I was just sitting back in the corner pounding away 28 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,360 the drinks when somebody walked over and introduced Reese to me. 29 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,640 Then in 1998, Reese later said about their this meeting. 30 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,320 I don't know what came over me. Maybe the seven Midori sours. 31 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,640 I say Midori. I don't know. 32 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,000 I don't know either, she said. But I like it. 33 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,640 Yeah, she said. But I think I told him, I think 34 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:05,240 you're my birthday present. The day they met. 35 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,600 The day they met. Yeah, it. 36 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:10,680 Does been drunk? Yes, it must have been drunk 7. 37 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:14,440 Midori. I love you. 38 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,240 Yeah, A. Year my birthday present. 39 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:23,640 So very soon after meeting, Ryan went off to film the slasher 40 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:26,680 movie I Know What You Did Last Summer in North Carolina. 41 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,000 Fun fact, Reese actually had auditioned for this film but 42 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,080 lost the role to Jennifer Love Hewitt. 43 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,480 Wow. So Ryan is off filming the movie 44 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:41,080 and the two of them are keeping in touch long distance during 45 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,200 this time. Her second long distance 46 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,000 relationship. Yes, I mean, that's not every 47 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,960 relationship with an actor is you. 48 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,120 Know, but hopefully there's more communication and it seems like 49 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,440 there probably is because things move pretty quickly. 50 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,480 There's not a lot of information available from this time period. 51 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:05,240 But years later, Reese was on Andy Cohen's show and he said 52 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,040 like, oh, did you guys fall in love filming Cruel Intentions? 53 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,400 And she said no, we were already living together for a year and a 54 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,120 half before filming that movie, so they were like, serious 55 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:16,000 pretty quickly. Wow. 56 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,200 That surprises me. I thought they were on that 57 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:20,600 movie so. That is. 58 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,000 A. Surprise, but no, they were 59 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,560 already dating when they were cast in the movie. 60 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:26,560 I'm sure you're going to get into this, but was it 61 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,600 happenstance they both were cast in that movie or was it 62 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,800 purposeful? Yeah, so I'll get into that now. 63 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,960 So Columbia Pictures, they were casting for the film. 64 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,120 And it to anyone who doesn't know, the film is about 65 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:44,240 basically these two rich, manipulative teenagers in 66 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,240 Manhattan named Sebastian and Catherine. 67 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,760 Is it? Yeah, it's a Dangerous Liaisons 68 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,440 modern adaptation. Yes. 69 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,040 And so they make a bet that the boy Sebastian, who's like this 70 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:03,760 bad boy, has to seduce this good girl, virgin girl named Annette. 71 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,400 And so Ryan, he's a rising star at this point. 72 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,440 He got a lot of good press for that. 73 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,080 I Know what You did Last summer movie. 74 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:15,360 And he's cast in the lead role as Sebastian and Sarah Michelle 75 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,640 Gellar is cast alongside him as his step sister in the film. 76 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,399 And then they have to find the Annette character. 77 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,920 And Columbia originally wanted Katie Holmes from Dawson's Creek 78 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,000 to play Annette, but the director wasn't crazy about that 79 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,040 idea idea. He wanted someone with a little 80 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:36,720 more character. He said no shade to Katie. 81 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,680 And he he honestly really wanted Reese. 82 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,120 I'm sure he like also met Reese through Ryan. 83 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,040 He's like, I think she'd be great for the part, but she 84 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,280 didn't want to be in the movie. She didn't really like the 85 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:51,440 character. So then Roger and Ryan took 86 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:55,280 Reese out to dinner and they quote, wooed her and convinced 87 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:57,920 her to take the part if they were able to rewrite the 88 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,840 character a little bit to be less passive and like a stronger 89 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:03,760 character. And so then she accepted the 90 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,800 part. Of the I wonder what the 91 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,840 original script looked like. I wonder if it was more like if 92 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:13,880 it was more like Dangerous Liaisons, because in that the 93 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,760 Annette character is very she very easily gets seduced. 94 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,840 It seems like in a way like and he's crying and like, I don't 95 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:25,400 know. She literally dies. 96 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,920 Because she. Breaks up with her and then she 97 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,600 actually does alert. Spoiler She dies of a broken. 98 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:37,280 He dies and then she dies. Yeah, of a broken, but she's 99 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:41,080 like dying on her death bed because he broke up with her. 100 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,400 Oh sorry I guess sorry I was thinking of the Uma Thurman 101 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:45,760 character I messed. UP. 102 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,560 No, we're talking about the Michelle Pfeiffer. 103 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,800 But she. Also was on the on the deathbed. 104 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,480 Well, Michelle Pfeiffer's character didn't get seduced 105 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,600 that easily, so never mind. A little. 106 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:00,360 She was like in love with him from the first attempt, like she 107 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,840 was fighting it, but she was in love with him. 108 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,840 Yeah, even though. He was attendant, but. 109 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:10,520 He was arguably way more sinister than Ryan Phillippe is. 110 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,160 Oh my gosh, he's like literally rapist. 111 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,000 And horrible Ryan Phillippe's character is, at least there's 112 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:24,480 something to love about him. There's something to like, and 113 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,880 you could see why she might love him. 114 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,720 But. I find it cool to watch that 115 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,680 movie like in modern times because it seems like such a 116 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,880 inspiration for Gossip Girl and it's kind of fun. 117 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:38,600 Intentions, yeah. It's kind of fun. 118 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,880 If you want some of that vibe, you can watch Cruel Intentions. 119 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,400 Anyway, anyway, so they filmed this movie together. 120 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,680 They were already a couple, they were already living to together. 121 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:56,400 And then in December 1998, they got engaged at a weekend away in 122 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:01,360 Charleston, SC at the luxury hotel Planters Inn. 123 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,440 At this point, Reese is 22 and Ryan is 24. 124 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,760 At some point in December of this same month, presumably we 125 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,720 can do the math. They also got pregnant with 126 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,600 their first child, but I don't think I'm guessing they didn't 127 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,800 get engaged because she was pregnant, because if you do the 128 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,920 math from when the daughter was born, it would have been around 129 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,360 December. So it seems like they got 130 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,920 engaged anyway. They're quite young, though. 131 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:31,120 So then it's March 99, Cruel Intentions premieres. 132 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,480 And soon after, Reese's pregnancy was announced to the 133 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,400 world. And she's not really showing 134 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,840 much on the red carpet. But like, the top that she wears 135 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,760 has like a kind of like a ribbon over her stomach. 136 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,000 So I think it it's like meant to show more attention to her 137 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,680 belly. I feel like she could have kept 138 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,840 it hidden if she wanted to. All right, I will have to stop 139 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,480 the episode right there. Thank you so much for listening 140 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,600 to the teaser. If you want to hear the full 141 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,840 episode and many other bonus episodes, you can find them on 142 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,040 Patreon. 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