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Hope you enjoy. And at this point, she's pretty
much established as a rising star herself, so I feel like her
and Ryan are kind of like at the same place.
Are these OK? Careers at this point, these are
are the adjectives that have been described, but also how I
perceive the person. So for Reese, I said.
Ambitious, polite, vibrant, considerate, strong willed, the
generous, well organized, a natural born leader.
All American like, good girl like.
I love it, Ryan. Ryan, like I tell me I don't, I
don't know him, but I did get the sense that he is like kind
of a macho guy, but like a little lost about who he is
maybe. Okay, the worst to be described
as. There will be a lot, but right
now it's 1997. They are young.
It is Reese's 21st birthday, and Ryan tags along with a mutual
friend to attend the party, he told the e-news in 1999.
I went with a friend because I knew there would be food and
drinks, and I was just sitting back in the corner pounding away
the drinks when somebody walked over and introduced Reese to me.
Then in 1998, Reese later said about their this meeting.
I don't know what came over me. Maybe the seven Midori sours.
I say Midori. I don't know.
I don't know either, she said. But I like it.
Yeah, she said. But I think I told him, I think
you're my birthday present. The day they met.
Yeah, it.
Does been drunk? Yes, it must have been drunk 7.
Midori. I love you.
Yeah, A. Year my birthday present.
So very soon after meeting, Ryan went off to film the slasher
movie I Know What You Did Last Summer in North Carolina.
Fun fact, Reese actually had auditioned for this film but
lost the role to Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Wow. So Ryan is off filming the movie
and the two of them are keeping in touch long distance during
this time. Her second long distance
relationship. Yes, I mean, that's not every
relationship with an actor is you.
Know, but hopefully there's more communication and it seems like
there probably is because things move pretty quickly.
There's not a lot of information available from this time period.
But years later, Reese was on Andy Cohen's show and he said
like, oh, did you guys fall in love filming Cruel Intentions?
And she said no, we were already living together for a year and a
half before filming that movie, so they were like, serious
pretty quickly. Wow.
That surprises me. I thought they were on that
movie so. That is.
A. Surprise, but no, they were
already dating when they were cast in the movie.
I'm sure you're going to get into this, but was it
happenstance they both were cast in that movie or was it
purposeful? Yeah, so I'll get into that now.
So Columbia Pictures, they were casting for the film.
And it to anyone who doesn't know, the film is about
basically these two rich, manipulative teenagers in
Manhattan named Sebastian and Catherine.
Is it? Yeah, it's a Dangerous Liaisons
modern adaptation. Yes.
And so they make a bet that the boy Sebastian, who's like this
bad boy, has to seduce this good girl, virgin girl named Annette.
And so Ryan, he's a rising star at this point.
He got a lot of good press for that.
I Know what You did Last summer movie.
And he's cast in the lead role as Sebastian and Sarah Michelle
Gellar is cast alongside him as his step sister in the film.
And then they have to find the Annette character.
And Columbia originally wanted Katie Holmes from Dawson's Creek
to play Annette, but the director wasn't crazy about that
idea idea. He wanted someone with a little
more character. He said no shade to Katie.
And he he honestly really wanted Reese.
I'm sure he like also met Reese through Ryan.
He's like, I think she'd be great for the part, but she
didn't want to be in the movie. She didn't really like the
character. So then Roger and Ryan took
Reese out to dinner and they quote, wooed her and convinced
her to take the part if they were able to rewrite the
character a little bit to be less passive and like a stronger
character. And so then she accepted the
part. Of the I wonder what the
original script looked like. I wonder if it was more like if
it was more like Dangerous Liaisons, because in that the
Annette character is very she very easily gets seduced.
It seems like in a way like and he's crying and like, I don't
know. She literally dies.
Because she. Breaks up with her and then she
actually does alert. Spoiler She dies of a broken.
He dies and then she dies. Yeah, of a broken, but she's
like dying on her death bed because he broke up with her.
Oh sorry I guess sorry I was thinking of the Uma Thurman
character I messed. UP.
No, we're talking about the Michelle Pfeiffer.
But she. Also was on the on the deathbed.
Well, Michelle Pfeiffer's character didn't get seduced
that easily, so never mind. A little.
She was like in love with him from the first attempt, like she
was fighting it, but she was in love with him.
Yeah, even though. He was attendant, but.
He was arguably way more sinister than Ryan Phillippe is.
Oh my gosh, he's like literally rapist.
And horrible Ryan Phillippe's character is, at least there's
something to love about him. There's something to like, and
you could see why she might love him.
But. I find it cool to watch that
movie like in modern times because it seems like such a
inspiration for Gossip Girl and it's kind of fun.
Intentions, yeah. It's kind of fun.
If you want some of that vibe, you can watch Cruel Intentions.
Anyway, anyway, so they filmed this movie together.
They were already a couple, they were already living to together.
And then in December 1998, they got engaged at a weekend away in
Charleston, SC at the luxury hotel Planters Inn.
At this point, Reese is 22 and Ryan is 24.
At some point in December of this same month, presumably we
can do the math. They also got pregnant with
their first child, but I don't think I'm guessing they didn't
get engaged because she was pregnant, because if you do the
math from when the daughter was born, it would have been around
December. So it seems like they got
engaged anyway. They're quite young, though.
So then it's March 99, Cruel Intentions premieres.
And soon after, Reese's pregnancy was announced to the
world. And she's not really showing
much on the red carpet. But like, the top that she wears
has like a kind of like a ribbon over her stomach.
So I think it it's like meant to show more attention to her
belly. I feel like she could have kept
it hidden if she wanted to. All right, I will have to stop
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