"There was no instruction book available about how to deal with it, and also, truthfully, I never really wanted to be a big movie star. "Everything was happening really quickly, there were a lot of cooks in the kitchen, a lot of voices around me, and I wanted to step away so I could hear my own voice again," she explained. The 34-year-old felt totally unequipped to deal with the world of movies and knew she needed to protect herself by having a break. She'd also been lauded for her roles in Mean Girls and Wedding Crashers, but then decided to take some time out. Her failed romances haven't put her off finding love with someone in the industry though, as she insists actors are no harder to be with than men in other jobs.Īround the time of The Notebook, Rachel was enjoying a career high. Also based on a true-life story captured in a. The Vow was another romantic drama that starred McAdams and Channing Tatum and released in 2012, many years after The Notebook and The Time Traveler's Wife. Most recently Rachel dated Michael Sheen, although they are no longer together. Regardless of how it came together, though, McAdams truly rocked her performance and stayed in the hearts of her fans for many years to come. And, unless your actors are doing a really terrible job, I think people will want to see that. Which goes to show you that you can engineer chemistry on screen just by telling the audience that these two people love each other. " certainly wasn’t something that either of us had expected would come out of that filmmaking experience. I would say that we were both, well, professional," she told British newspaper The Times.
"We weren’t throwing Ming vases at each other, so it wasn’t loathing, but our relationship was not what you saw on the screen. Both have been open about that in the past and Rachel is proud that they did such a great job of hiding their difficulties.
The pair portrayed a couple in love in the 2004 romantic movie and although they went on to date in real life, they didn't bond during filming. Canadian actress Rachel McAdams said that she and Ryan Gosling were at each other's throats during the filming of cult romantic classic The Notebook.