Jenny Slate en Chris Evans, twee acteurs uit Massachusetts die één van de leukste celebritykoppels vormden in mei 2016, gingen vorige maand uit elkaar. Snik. Sob. Bummer.

De twee zijn altijd erg privé geweest omtrent de romance, maar Jenny Slate doet nu tegen New York magazine een flink boekje open over de relatie en hoe ze met de break-up omgaat. Ze vertelt:

'I don't mind talking about [Evans] at all. He's a lovely person/ I don't know. It feels like such a huge thing. Last year was a giant, big year for my heart. I've never, ever thought to keep anything private because that's not really what I'm like, and now I'm learning those things, and they're weird, kind of demented lessons to learn.'

Evans en Slate speelden elkaars love interests in de Gifted. Toen Jenny Slate de acteur voor het eerste ontmoette en ze een zogenoemde 'chemistry read' deden, wisten ze beiden meteen dat ze een speciale connectie hadden. Jenny:

'I remember him saying to me, "You're going to be one of my closest friends." I was just like "Man, I fucking hope this isn't a lie, because I'm going to be devastated if this guy isn't my friend".'

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Toen ze de film opnamen organiseerde Chris Evans ieder weekend een spelletjesavond voor de cast. Jenny Slate was daar eerst niet echt fan van:

'At first I was like "What a fucking nightmare". Chris is a different speed than me - I think he really did just jump out of a plane for an interview. And so when he was like "Game nights", I was like, "This is annoying. This guy's like a sports guy. He's the kid that likes P.E.''.'

Maar zijn enthousiasme was volgens Jenny zo aanstekelijk, dat ze 't toch leuk begon te vinden:

'I first really liked Chris as a person because he is so unpretentious. He is a straight-up 35-year-old man who wants to play games. That's it. I was like "I'd better not discount this, because this is purity".'

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'What's the same about us is not just that we're from Massachusetts, which was such a delight, but Chris is truly one of the kindest people I've ever met, to the point where sometimes I would look at him and it would kind of break my heart. He's really vulnerable, and he's really straightforward. He's like primary colors. He has beautiful, big, strong emotions, and he's really sure of them. It's just wonderful to be around. His heart is probably golden-colored, if you could paint it.'

De twee vielen pas na het filmen van Gifted echt voor elkaar:

'To be quite honest, I didn't think I was his type. Eventually, when it was like "Oh, you have these feelings for me?", I was looking around like "Is this a prank?" I mean, I understand why I think I'm beautiful, but if you've had a certain lifestyle and I'm a very, very different type of person - I don't want to be an experiment.'

Jenny Slate had meteen wel moeite met Chris Evans' fans, die blijkbaar zeer bezittelijk en straightforward zijn:

'If you are a woman who really cares about her freedom, her rights, her sense of being an individual, it is confusing to go out with one of the most objectified people in the entire world. In drug stores, it was a surreal experience when random women came up being like "Oh my God, is that Chris Evans? He's so hot!" And you're like "How dare you? That's my boyfriend. But yes, he's so hot."'

Jenny Slate vertelt daarna uitgebreid dat 2016 een van de meest stressvolle jaren van haar leven was, deels omdat ze niet wist om te gaan met het level van beroemdheid dat Chris Evans heeft:

'The stress that I saw him be put under, I've never seen that before, and he handled that really gracefully. He's not stressed. I was the person that was stressed.'

De 34-jarige Jenny moest daarnaast ook nog dealen met haar scheiding, ondanks dat zij en haar ex-man al maanden uit elkaar waren voordat ze met Chris Evans begon te daten:

'Even though we had an amicable divorce, I think that's still something that you need to mourn. When you get separated from somebody that you actually care about, it is the destruction of a belief system. That is really, really sad. [With the divorce and new relationship,] I just didn't have the tools. And I didn't think very hard about that, to be honest. I wanted to step into the light. Chris is a sunny, loving, really fun person, and I didn't really understand why I should be prudent.'

Jenny en Chris gingen begin februari uit elkaar, en hebben gelukkig nu geen hekel aan elkaar:

'We're not on bad terms, but we haven't really seen each other, spoken a lot. I think it's probably best. I'd love to be his friend one day, but we threw down pretty hard. No regrets, though. Ever.'

Ze heeft dan ook veel geleerd van de relatie:

'Whoever is the next person [I date] is going to have to respect that I had a husband who I loved and this boyfriend who I loved so much, and I don't want to have to act like they weren't important.'

Jenny Slate moet binnenkort nog wel op promotietour met haar ex, voor hun film Gifted, die in april in Amerika in première gaat. En dat wordt best lastig:

'I feel pretty relaxed about it right now. That's because I know Chris and he's a very nice man. And we've gone into our separate lives. But that doesn't also mean that I'm going to sleep well the night before, you know?'

Wow. Zo openhartig hebben we een ster nog nooit over een break-up gehoord. Verfrissend.

Van: ELLE US