Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of Jake's latest movie "Prince Of Persia" filming in Morocco North Africa. Jake is pictured here with a very toned torso, and is bare chested so we can all see why Reese took the time and trouble to fly across 3 continents on commercial flights to spend some quality time with her beau. The happy couple spent the weekend at an exclusive luxury Moroccan hotel "Amanjena." They went for lunch on Saturday to a typical Moroccan restaurant in the Medina followed by a tour of the Medina. They did not venture out of their luxury suite Sunday.
I can't imagine why not :)
With all the bling watch we've been doing, it's fun now to be on the lookout for Jake's accessories. Rings, bracelets, chains, belts, boots. It all requires careful examination.
I like the look. It's funky, tough and sexy. But it must take a long time to take it all off :)
Thanks to Stephanie and IHJ for the HQs, and to trinket and xqsmwa on DC for the close-ups. And here's hoping we get some more set photos and some more of Jake and Reese on the town.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 229 of 229Oh My, 3-D Jake, like he'd be almost real, that might kill me, I think - he would be amazing in IMAX, I think. I hope they do more movies in that format, TDK was amazing, Batman diving from the tops of buildings and gliding in Hong Kong and Gotham - just imagine Jake's parkour like that!
Look. It's Hollywood. The possibility of Jake working with either Abbie at some future date is possible. Not probable, but possible. The possibility that Reese and Kirsten might someday work together is possible., etc.
The combinations I don't see happening are Reese ever working with Ryan or Abbie, or Jake ever working with Kirsten, at least not for a reallllly long time.
I don't think anything at all is going to happen in the near future, so In Touch is just stirring the pot. All these people have already probably told their agents, "No way!" I would think after all the negative publicity she got, Abbie herself would say no. This is total tabloid fiction.
When I went to the link about Abbie one of the comments mentioned that Jake and Reese had been together a lot longer than people think. When people started linking them I started to wonder if they had been together for a while. I wondered if that is why Jake let the gay thing go on, thus hiding his real relationship. I remember on JakeWatch that at a reading it was overheard where Jake was and with whom. I don't think they ever revealed it. It would explain the long public alone time for Jake. Reese was still married (on paper), not a hint of divorce yet (in public). Yes? No?
Well I don't know if it has been that long Anon, but I personally think they were together long before last years Oscars.
Personally, I think Jake began dating Reese in December of 2006 or January 2007 at the latest. I think that one magazine interview where he said that a man's job was to find a good wife who should also be a good mother or something like that, which he gave in the first week of January, is the giveaway.
I think he had decided to "go for her" as early as the fall of 2006. At least as early as when they began working on Rendition together, which was literally one week after Reese left Ryan.
I agree with brothers spy. That was a pre-Zodiac interview, given during Rendition filming. GQ? Reese acknowledged during promo for WTL that she and Ryan had had counselling. There were problems, it seems.
If Reese and Ryan were really apart for as long as people think then one of them needs to come forward and say something to get Abbie of the hook for being a "homewrecker". She takes alot of crap. Abbie gave an interview that said people hate you when they don't know the truth and Ryan has said there were problems before he met her but no one has really said "look we were apart as of XXXXX date". Until one of them does that she will take an unfair share of the heat for this relationship ending. I don't think it's fair to her since it seems like they were apart or in the process of parting. I am obviously a fan and Jake would be lucky to work with her. I would imagine that they have spoken since Heath's death. They were both close to him for similar reasons and must run into each other. If Jake went to the LA Memorial they would have been there at the same time.
Anyway I hope she doesn't continue to take the blame for Reese and Ryan breaking up. They all seem much happier now and hopefully the two couples get along for the sake of the kids.
That InTouch "scoop" reminded me of something...... wasn't there a sighting back in summer 2006 of Jake lunching with Ryan and Abbie in Austin? Cannot for the life of me remember where I read that, or if it was from a believable source.
I'm sure someone here at GB, with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Jake (yes, Ms.UV, I'm talking to you), could confirm. :)
abbie fan,
I completely agree with you that the treatment of Abbie has been unfair, and blaming the break-up of Reese-Ryan's marriage on her is wrong.
I thought it was in the October edition of GQ Jake talked about a "mindful woman." Those articles are done weeks earlier. I think they started seeing each other, "friendly dating" but not too serious, thru mutual friends (either Selma Blair or Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet)around the time he DECIDED to do Rendition. Which would be late summer,early fall, late August/September, 2006. I think she was having a rough time and he wasa strong support for her.
He was also in NYC a lot, and went to MV as well. IMHO, they had already started "casual" dating by the time Ramona was born in October. I think he got serious sooner then she did. He knew what he was looking for and she was IT. I think she was trying to be more cautious. He probably gave her a lot of "space" until she realized she didn't want all that much "space" from him.
I read that Dec, 2006, he gave her a bike for Christmas. That's not a huge expensive personal gift, but it is an expression of a strong, special realtionship. This was the Christmas he went to that lodge that caught fire. So they were still spending holidays apart.
I think the turning point was around that time. I'm almost positive they were intimate by the time he left for Morocco to film scenes for Rendition in early January. They missed one another. So they took it to the next level.
Remember. She had to present at the Oscars. He flew to NYC bcz he had to do promo for Zodiac. She flew right to NYC, arriving the day he finishes his work for Zodiac, to be with him for five days.
He used his break to be with her, last of February, first of March, 2007. By then they were a solid couple. They'd been dating for months but it finally started to leak.I think right up thru Easter, they really tried to keep it under wraps, until they were sure this was serious. By Easter, he was sending Easter baskets to her kids.
I like Abbie too, Abbie fan. I remember reading somewhere that Ryan had his own apartment and that Reese and Ryan staged some photos on the beach where they rented a house for the summer. It must have been in 2006. So they were probably already separated.
Ryan has talked about how things were and that Abbie doesn't deserve the flak. I think he doesn't want to go into details about his marriage because then he is telling Reese's private business. I think Reese and Ryan want to limit these discussions because of their kids. They both have moved on.
wasn't there a sighting back in summer 2006 of Jake lunching with Ryan and Abbie in Austin? Cannot for the life of me remember where I read that, or if it was from a believable source.
I definitely remember that, suvee, and damned if I can find the mention of it. I feel like it came from someone's blog or LJ or the like. Or maybe a comment somewhere on the Austin 360 site. But I DO remember that.
Woot!!! How about this scenario: Jake is Austin, and his old buddy Abbie, who he met thru Heath is in Austin working on a movie so she invites him to the set...bcz she wants his opinion on her now special friend?? Jake has lunch with Ryan and Abbie, tells Abbie "He's a keeper!"
Meant "Jake is IN Austin, Texas" ^
Thanks for the confirmation, FL!
(Inexcusable of me not to include you in the encyclopedic knowledge category.... I do know you are a Jake expert of the first order!)
I think you're right..... seems like it appeared on an Austin American Statesman blog, or another Austin based site. I do remember that it struck me as an authentic sighting.
I never heard the thing about the Easter baskets. If it's true, it's sweet.
Is Reese the one that gave Jake a seaweed wrap or some spa treatment? This was early on.
I think he was kidding though.
I recall that sighting too but I can't remember where. I think that Abby and Ryan were in TX to film Stop/Loss and Jake was there for that music festival and football with Matt and Lance.
The story about having lunch in Austin, TX with Ryan and Abbey is probably bogus. (I'm not saying that someone didn't say it, i'm just saying that it probably never happened).
They didn't even begin filming Stop Loss until September of 2006. Ryan spent the summer of 2006 in Malibu, part of it with Reese, where he had rented a house.
Also, how close would Ryan and Abbie have been in the first weeks of filming?
It could have been one of those stories which emerged because, if you remember, in the summer of 2006 there were a few stories about Jake and Ryan being good friends (remember they were photographed working out together in June '06).
This story, or a variation of it, probably got its genesis there and then "evolved" later like most internet stories do.
I've never heard of this until now. I doubt it ever happened.
Was it Ryan and Abby and Jake or Ryan some blonde girl some assumed was Abby and Jake? I remember reading that too and it was in September and if 'm not mistaken it was on the Perez site. People were sending Perez sightings, it was the first place where news got out that he was at a football game and the music festival.
I remember someone posting they saw Ryan and Jake and then some blonde girl. If it was related to Stop/loss then it was probably pre-production stuff.
The summer of Lance and Matt, that seems like ages ago.
I don't think Jake and Reese were dating before she filed for divorce, and no amount of unconfirmed sightings would convince me of that to the contrary. Ryan has long since been alleged to be a cheater, and not that there has ever been evidence since Abbie. There was confirmed reports Abbie and Ryan were together, the dinner date in late June at the restaurant? By September I think Reese and Ryan separated, they didn't announce it. It was quiet. I think she found out about Abbie, and that was the final straw. Yes they were having problems, but Reese doesn't seem like the give up on a guy type unless absolutely forced to.
Abbie fan, it takes two to tango. Even if Ryan was having problems, and felt emotionally detached from his wife, he chose to sleep with another woman while still legally married to his wife. And she chose to sleep with him too. Therefor I'm going to consider him a not so great guy, and her dubious at best. She's a great actress, but I'm not impressed with her personal choices outside of film. It's pretty obvious that Ryan and Abbie had something going on during the filming of Stop-Loss, what it was exactly, nobody will ever know. All speculation on my part. I've said this before though, I really think they started dating in December or January. They were probably close friends as early as October, maybe late September. I'm sure they met in pre-prodution meetings, and started to chat. Those first pics of her and him on set were not the first time they'd met up.
Ryan and Abbie met in mid or late August 2006. Stop Loss was filming by the second week in August. Reese and Ryan supposedly separated after an argument in early October after a film screening in New York city. I just don't think she could have made that much of an impact in such a short time.
At the end of the day, this is all just speculation. I can't pass judgement on anyone. I don't know anything about what these people's lives were really like, what was going on in their heads, or emotionally. I'm sure not going to pass judgement on Abbie.
Two of these people were married to each other. They had two kids.Things didn't work out. Over a nine year period, things fell apart. Usually, whenever there's a third party involved, it's a symptom, not a cause. That has been my own experience.
From what's been floating around, Ryan messed up more then once. But we don't know why and never will. Maybe they both realized, after going to counseling on two separate occasions, that it just wasn't going to work. They grew apart. He moved out. They lived out a charade for as long as they could, mainly because they didn't want their personal lives to be tabloid fodder.
I don't remember seeing them out much. No sightings at concerts, movies, or restaurants, or out shopping together. Pictures with the kids mostly. Photo spreads. I remember once them being spotted out one evening with Ryan's friend Breckin.
I think you had two very stressed out, really unhappy young people who tried hard and finally had to admit failure. That's a really hard thing to go thru.
I'm just glad Ryan has Abbie and Jake has Reese. Maybe they all get along fine, now,and work through their difficulties. Especially because of the kids. I know that without Ryan's cooperation,even if given grudgingly, Reese wouldn't be able to go to Morocco as readily,nor spend time with him in Columbia,or fly down to New Mexico, let alone taking the kids to London for two weeks and Paris as well.
I don't think they are BFFs, but things seem to be working OK. I just think all of them are lucky to have Jake in their lives, bcz he seems like a really good person.
Jake and Ryan weren't close friends. They were friendly, they knew each other, but not close friends. They were photographed at some track field (UCLA?) working out once. Ryan worked on a movie with Jake's parents when he was much younger.
I've always wondered about the assumption they were best buds just because they worked out together once.
I can't imagine Jake wanting to work with her, not that he gets much say in the casting process. But that's just bringing unnecessary awkwardness to a working environment when there doesn't need to be. I'm not familiar with her work, but I doubt they couldn't find a 100 girls who could fit the part.
"I just don't think she could have made that much of an impact in such a short time."
All it takes is one wrong move. And really, she's a grown woman who made a choice. Did she really think she wouldn't get flak? Right or wrong, she brought this all on herself.
I remember reading a couple of sightings of Jake with a blonde girl during the summer of '06 one was with Heath and Michelle the other I read on original hate "blog". I can't remember exactly were it was, somewhere just over the border in Canada I think. That was when he was in NY for a while.
I have followed Reese and Ryan for a long while. Like any other couple they had problems for a long time that included Ryan's alleged cheating, drug use and i think this of course clashed with Reese's type A personality. I think they both tried to make their marriage work and in more ways i think Reese tried harder than Ryan because if you have followed her she does not give up on things easily she always tries to find solutions. Reese and Ryan appeared together during the award season when she won the oscar and if you look at pictures of them a the golden globes they did not look like a couple that were putting on a show. In my opinion i think Reese learned to accept Ryan for the man that he was but something had to have happened that was the last straw. During the screening of flags of our fathers in NY there were reports that they openly had an argument and Reese was found crying in the bathroom and left without Ryan. She flew to LA the next morning and announced that she would be separating from her husband. There were reports that she found raunchy messages on his black berry from Abbie. Now Ryan's reaction post divorce confirms to me that he is carrying a burden of guilt from the breakup of his family. the talk of wanting to commit sucide and all the pity me talk that he did. Reese on the otherhand took the higher road and all she said was that she and Ryan had ignored each other. As for Abbie if you are going to knowingly sleep with a man who is married then you have to take the consequnces that come from such display of poor judgement.
On to Jake i think he has known Reese and Ryan for a while and he probably had a soft spot for Reese. I also think he knew Ryan's weaknesses and knew that if he waited patiently Reese would be a free woman sooner.
Anyway each of them are now happy with people who seem to match their personalities so congratulations to the happy couples. I only hope i never have to hear Ryan throwing pity parties for himself again
They left that screening together according to pictures and the raunchy text messages could be tabloid fiction like Atticus being in Reese and Jake's wedding. No one really knows what happened. It's fine to speculate of course but I'm with Brother's Spy I don't think Abbie deserved to be blamed for the breakup.
Whilst speculation is fun, the only thing we can be certain of is that there'll only ever be two people who know exactly when they started dating, and they won't be telling.
O/T - can you all promise not to watch the hand over to London bit of the closing ceremony at the Olympics, Boris Johnson our Mayor is doing it, and it's bound to be mortifying, I expect half of London to die of embarrassment
O/T - can you all promise not to watch the hand over to London bit of the closing ceremony at the Olympics, Boris Johnson our Mayor is doing it, and it's bound to be mortifying, I expect half of London to die of embarrassment
Hee. Nope, cannot promise that. Especially since I just took a tour through all the construction and staging being erected at The Mall side of Green Park last week. Promises to be quite an event from the looks of it. :-)
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