McConaughey, Cruz "Take Time Off"
by Joal Ryan



The unmarried life does have its advantages, as the uncoupling Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz might attest.

In lieu of divorce papers and court filings, a press release first issued Friday to People magazine was all the duo needed to announce they were splitting up. Sorry, "tak[ing] time off."

"Due to busy work schedules and so much time apart, they mutually decided four weeks ago that separating was the best thing to do at this time," the statement said.

McConaughey, 36, and Cruz, 32, became an item in 2004, not too long after Cruz took time off from Tom Cruise. The two met on the set of Sahara.

Although their days as a fun couple were relatively short-lived, they still outlasted their action movie, a $130 million would-be blockbuster that sputtered at the 2005 box office after a take of only $69.8 million, per the stats at BoxOfficeMojo.com.

According to People, it was distance that kept McConaughey and Cruz apart. Of late, McConaughey has been in the South filming the football biopic We Are...Marshall, while Cruz has been in Spain filming the bullfight drama Manolete. Last February in Los Angeles, the two were spotted acting "not particularly cuddly-coo" at a "chilly" dinner, E! Online columnist Ted Casablanca reported at the time.

Prior to Cruz, McConaughey was linked to the likes of Sandra Bullock and Ashley Judd. Cruz was said to have briefly dated Nicolas Cage and Matt Damon, prior to her high-profile hookup with Cruise, her Vanilla Sky costar.

Neither McConaughey nor Cruz has ever married.

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Maybe they can find a better actress for the next Dirk Pitt movie. p:

Well, like Dirk like Matthew. ;)

I'm betting it has something to do with the fact that MM doesn't wear any deodorant yike:

Oh I don't know....I've heard that Penelope doesn't normally shave her armpits. :blink:

:yike: :yike:

:wacko:

Well this thread took a turn for the worse. :P

I saw a small feature on Entertainment Tonight Canada this week about the couple splitting up and mentioned the Sahara filming as the start of their relationship.

I don't really like it when movie stars date or marry their co-stars. It just doesn't seem real to me. I guess it's not so bad in this case since it wasn't like a romantic comedy or any kind of intense romance...but Tom Cruise has married his leading ladies before and look where it's gotten him... I mean, how do you know when they are or are not acting?? I'm glad they are not together anymore. At least they weren't married, eh?

Kinda like that new movie with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. It's all about breaking up! I bet they got some real nice therapy from making that movie. :lol:

For as many movies as Tom Cruise has used to meet his future girlfriends, Eyes Wide Open had the opposite effect on his relationship with Nicole Kidman. :blink:

I think all of us girls just like the"idea" of Matthew being single again :lol: :lol:
We can have our dreams can't we?

Eye Wide Shut (Sorry Erik I don't mean to be :blink: about the title of a movie, I have a bad memory, but it was such a bad movie I couldn't forget it :lol: )

Haha, no prob. Eyes Wide Open is an outreach group advocating for victims of sexual assault. One of my friends is really involved in it so it was probably on my mind.

They could have named it Girls Gone Wild and it still would have been an awful movie. :P