“I love stories with love in them.
I just prefer those films,” the actor toldColliderin a 2013 interview.
In the decade since, she’s fallen in love on screen in several movies.
Off-screen, she’s been busy connecting with her real-life boyfriend, writer and director Jamie Linden.
Good news he loves love too!
Besides parenting two children together, Linden and McAdams have a few other things in common.
This was just six years after McAdams starred in another Nicholas Sparks adaptation, “The Notebook.”
Hollywood is a pretty small world.
The rest is history.
As “The Notebook” star toldThe Times, “I just wanted to be with someone creative.”
She found that in Linden, a Florida man with a passion for storytelling.
“We live sort of out in the country so there’s a little farm down the road.
Pretty picturesque if you ask us.
Later that year, she was spotted pregnant with the couple’s second child.
His advice to students?
“What you want to do, finds you.”
The duo were together from 2012 until 2014.
“He’s funny, and a little geeky… he’s into her!”
an anonymous toldUS Weeklyat the time.
McAdams also had her fair share of celebrity romances.
She famously dated “Barbie” star Ryan Gosling after they played love interests in “The Notebook.”
“People do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie.
