"When I met her,"*Jackman says, "she'd already done about 20 movies,"*and she understood distance’s effect on intimacy.*"She said, 'It's not that I think you're going to go off with a costar, or vice versa. But people get used to living apart. You get used to handling a problem yourself.' "
An issue that the two continue to handle together is the ongoing speculation that the actor is gay. "I don't really pay attention," Jackman explains. "If someone's going to spend their time saying, 'You're really not 6' 2'; you're 5' 10,' I'll tell them once, 'I am 6' 2'. Then, whatever you want to believe, it's up to you. We really only get mad when there's an element of truth, right?"