Remember when Ryan Reynolds was married to Scarlett Johansson for a blink of an eye?
We almost didn't either: they began dating in 2007, tied the knot in 2008, and split
in December 2010.
They were both so private and secretive about the whole thing that there's very little photographic
evidence they were ever together at all.
So what went wrong?
Here are some likely reasons why Scarlett and Ryan didn't go the distance.
Threatened
In April 2016, Johansson indicated to Cosmopolitan that competition between herself and Reynolds
may have played a role in their split.
She told the mag:
"The logistics of being with another actor are challenging.
There has to be a real understanding of how you share your time, especially when two people's
careers are going at the same rate.
Or even if one person is more successful than the other, that also proves challenging.
There may be a competitive thing."
That echoes her sentiments from almost exactly a year earlier, when she hinted to Parade
magazine in April 2015 that Reynolds' box office bombs may have played a role in their
divorce.
She explained:
"Acting is a very strange world to be co-existing in.
It's very volatile.
There's always going to be the more successful person.
It's related to rejection.
Because actors, if they're not having success, connect it directly to unpopularity—to the
fact that nobody wants them."
She added:
"[Marriage] takes a lot of work.
It takes a man who's not only confident in the love that you have for one another, but
confident in what he has going on in his own career."
Ouch!
"Good one!
Yup, that was a good one."
Commitment issues
After their divorce, Johansson hinted that she may not have known how to handle such
a serious relationship.
They got together when she was just 23 to Reynolds' 31.
She explained to Glamour in 2014,
"I feel I know now more of what I need in a relationship, what I want in a relationship.
And I know I have more tools to communicate, not just with my partner, but with myself.
That's not necessarily any reflection of who I was married to or what was happening in
my marriage, but really where I was in my life."
"And the more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."
"Yeah…"
Personality clash
An insider told InTouch that Johansson and Reynolds started as a case of opposites attract
— and that in the end, they realized opposites are actually incompatible.
"He's more traditional and she's more independent.
They're both strong-willed and stubborn people.
There was a lack of warmth between them, that was troubling…He said it sounded like she
was yelling at him every time she talked to him.
When Scarlett visited Ryan on the set of The Proposal, she was screaming at him in his
trailer—going nuts."
Too private
There are hardly any photographs of Johansson and Reynolds together at all.
That seems to be more of Johansson's doing: you never really see her with her significant
others, not even current husband Romain Dauriac, but you see Ryan Reynolds with Blake Lively
constantly.
Scarlett's desire for privacy may not have meshed well with Ryan's need for control,
according to a source for InTouch magazine:
"He can be an overbearing control freak.
When he wanted her there, he expected her to drop everything and come to him.
She got tired of the double standard."
Hello, Blake Lively
When Reynolds filmed Green Lantern, sources told The Daily Mail that he began cozying
up with co-star Blake Lively…when he was still married to Johansson.
One witness saw Reynolds and Lively getting close over dinner before he and Johansson
split.
"It was just the two of them, and they were laughing and flirting.
It looked like a date.
If you didn't know who they were, you would definitely assume they were a couple."
The Daily Mail reports that Johansson was uncomfortable with how close Reynolds and
Lively had become on set before any rumors swirled about their off-screen romance, and
considering that Reynolds and Lively married in 2012, it looks like Johansson's feeling
that her relationship was doomed might have been right.
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