When two stars who are as adored as Ryan Gosling and Sandra Bullock get together, the world takes notice. And perhaps their near-universal popularity is why their 16 year age gap didn’t even feel like that big a deal when they started dating back in 2001. But, ultimately they turned out to be in it for a good time, not a long time — so what happened along the way?

How it Began

Ah, another good old-fashioned workplace romance. In this case, the workplace was the set of 2001 thriller Murder By Numbers. Bullock, now 61, was 37 and Gosling, now 44, was just 21, but the pair hit it off — first, as friends but, by the time it came to promoting the movie on the red carpet, they were an established couple, going subtly public at Cannes Film Festival in May 2002.

How Long it Lasted

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