Penelope Cruz and Matthew McConaughey met on the set of the film "Sahara," but according to the two, it wasn't love at first sight. McConaughey confirmed that they only got together after they wrapped filming. "We worked together and there was nothing romantic about it, then became friends and hung out together and that has turned into a nice relationship," he said (via The Irish Examiner). Cruz seemed to confirm this when she told The Telegraph that, like McConaughey, she never starts a relationship with her co-stars. "If something becomes friendship, then maybe months later it becomes something else, but you can never know."
Not much is known about what went down between the two, but they parted ways when they found it tough to find time for one another. "Due to busy work schedules and so much time apart, they mutually decided ... that separating was the best thing to do at this time," the actors said in a joint statement to People at the time. A source close to the former couple also confirmed they saw each other rather infrequently, so there was no point in continuing to date.
Then again, there were rumors claiming that McConaughey and Cruz were still together when the actor met his future wife, Camila Alves. The book "Matthew McConaughey: The Biography" asserts that he fell for Alves before breaking up with Cruz but the actor confirmed with People that he was "happily single" at the time.
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