“When I met Annette …
I felt immediately that this was going to change my life,” he says.
On-set romances are notoriously fickle and fleeting.
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Then there’s the case of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening.
The two stars met during the making of 1991’s romantic gangster drama,Bugsy.
But the courtship was anything but instant.
Beatty had first crossed paths with Bening back when he was casting 1990’sDick Tracy.
He set up a meeting.
But Bening later canceled.
Destiny would have to wait.
The two men needed someone for the part of Siegel’s brassy paramour, Virginia Hill.
Someone who could give as good as she could take.
Beatty remembered the woman who had canceled her appointment with him.
“I remember losing interest in the garlic chicken I was eating within 20 seconds.
And the garlic chicken had been very good!”
After lunch, Beatty was sure that he had found his leading ladyand perhaps more.
It’s something he likens to a couple finding themselves playing four characters instead of two.
But he laughs about how couldn’t keep his promise until the film wrapped.
“Towards the end of the movie, I said, “Should we have dinner together?'
I think there was a moment of hesitation on her part.
The rule was broken.”
Needless to say, the twodidhave dinner.
They were married two months later.
