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Denzel Washington Was Actually Waterboarded For A Safe House Stunt

Denzel Washington, you already have two Oscars. What are you doing getting waterboarded for your new movie Safe House? Don’t you know that’s what stunt people are for? “I wanted to see what it would be like,” Denzel told New York mag about consenting to the grueling feat. “It’s strange. You can’t breathe in, because the water comes in, and it’s filling up your mouth. And that was just one time for a short time. Imagine having that done for 20, 30 seconds? You will give up the answers! You may not necessarily tell the truth, but you will tell [your captors] whatever they want to hear.” We want to confess to our captors right now just reading about this, and we aren’t even being waterboarded. Or have captors!

Revealed the film’s director, Daniel Espinosa, “I went up to Denzel and told him, ‘Time to go, now is the moment where the stunt guy kicks in,’ and he looked at me and he said, ‘Let’s go.’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘I’m sure.’ And I was terrified, but I let him go and I had to watch him do it.” As if having your mouth filled with water while Ryan Reynolds eats snacks at the craft services table wasn’t terrifying enough, it was Terminator 2 star/homicidal cyborg Robert Patrick doing the waterboarding. “Now, some of the guys we got, the Taliban guys, they only hung in there for eighteen seconds,” Patrick explained. “Denzel lasted five; that’s pretty damn good.” Yeah, “good” isn’t exactly the word we would use. “Insane,” maybe? “”Awesome”…definitely.

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ScarJo Says Marriage To Ryan Reynolds “The Best Thing I Ever Did”

It’s even almost a year since Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson announced their divorce, which means almost 365 days of them living out The Best Divorce Of All Time. Okay, sure, we’re certain both of ScarJo and Ryan spent plenty of hours crying on the bathroom floor, but despite the public nature of their split, both actors have been champs at being civil in public. “I’m a big believer that when something feels right, you should do it,” Scarlett explains in this mouth’s Cosmo. “I’m a big believer in instinct. Getting married was the right thing to do because it was natural. It grew out of a romance and love and a desire to have a future with somebody, and I was very fortunate that I married somebody who turned out to be the person I thought he would be.” She then defended Green Lantern against its critics, quoted all the funniest lines from Van Wilder complete with character voices and wrote out a treatise on how great Ryan’s shoulders look in a suit…essentially.

In case you’re wondering why the two split, if their marriage was as ScarJo put it, “the best thing I ever did,” the answer isn’t Sean Penn or Justin Long or even Blake Lively, who Reynolds was spotted smooching this week, even though that would make for a much more exciting interview. “Being married is a living, breathing process. I think I was not fully aware of the peaks and the valleys. I wasn’t prepared to hunker down and do the work,” Johansson admits. “Both of us were extremely busy. We spent so much time apart. It’s very difficult.” Celebrities! Their marriages fall apart just like ours! But with less screaming and tire-slashing.

Scarlett Johansson Embraces Her Nude Pics: “I Know My Best Angles”

Scarlett Johansson seems to be taking the advice we got for celebs from CNET Internet security expert Declan McCullagh, “If you take nude photos of yourself or allow nude photos of yourself to be taken … either you embrace this (like Marilyn Monroe did) — this is part of you, part of your mystique — or you keep them encrypted on a hard drive that you, and not your boyfriend, hold the key to.”

So in her cover story interview for the December issue of Vanity Fair, she saucily declares of the nude pics that leaked in September: “I know my best angles. … They were sent to my husband [Ryan Reynolds]. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s not like I was shooting a porno. Although there’s nothing wrong with that either.”
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Three Burning Questions About Scarlett Johansson’s (Alleged) Nude Picture Scandal

It’s been about eight hours or so since nude photos of a young woman that bares a striking resemblance to Scarlett Johansson were leaked online. After seeing the seismic force with which these photos hit the Internet, it’s a wonder that all of the underground tubes through which information flows to the World Wide Web—the Internet is powered by underground tubes, right???—didn’t rupture and burst. Thankfully, Al Gore had the foresight to envision the necessary precautions that needed to be undertaken in case of exactly this sort of incident back when he invented the Information Superhighway™.

We here at TheFABLife have been debating not only the authenticity of these (alleged) ScarJo nudes all day, but also the rationale for them. To that end, here are three burning questions that we demand President Obama answer in a televised address by nightfall (all of which assume that it is actually Miss Johansson who appears in these pics):

1) WHO WAS SCARLETT JOHANSSON SEXTING, ANYWAY?
That is a great question! Alas, only Scarlett, the end recipient, and probably some C.I.A. operatives with high-level security clearance* that gives them the access to wiretap anyone in the United States at will have the answer to that question for sure. However, we DID do some research to help narrow it down. According to the metadata in the pictures, these photographs were “Taken with a BlackBerry Bold 9000 Last Modified Date/Time = 20:25, Oct 12, 2010.” Hmmm, where was ScarJo on October 12 of last year? Well, internet sleuths have already determined that she was in her bedroom. Based on that, the lucky louie that she sent them to be could be: Her husband at the time, Ryan Reynolds (though they would go on to divorce just two months later); her Broadway co-star, Liev Schreiber (the gossip mill seriously churned during A View From The Bridge‘s run); or possibly even one of her We Bought A Zoo co-stars Matt Damon (who is happily married) or Thomas Haden Church (who is happily unmarried). What we DO know is that she almost certainly didn’t send them to Sean Penn, because those two didn’t hook up until March of 2011.

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Ryan Gosling Constantly Disappointing Fans Who Think He’s Ryan Reynolds

As hard as it might be to believe, apparently there are people who mistake Ryan Gosling for Ryan Reynolds…and then feel disappointed about. Van Wilder fans: the most easily disappointed fans in the world! “They’re disappointed when I’m not Ryan Reynolds,” the Drive star told E! Online. “‘Oh can I get my picture with you?’ And you’re like, sure, and they’re like, ‘I thought you were more muscley.’ No. ‘Have you gotten, like, more unattractive for a role?’ No. Just the role of my life.’” More unattractive! Jeez, did Green Lantern melt these people’s brains?

“Sometimes they’ll take a picture with me and then they’ll look at it, and I’ll see their faces fall and they realize when they look at the picture, that’s not Ryan Reynolds,” he explains. Wow, Gosling sure has been laying it on thick the past couple weeks, hasn’t he? First he was like, “Oh, let me act all bashful about breaking up this street fight!,” then he was all, “Let me take Eva Mendes to Disney World,” now he’s coming at us like, “I’m not as handsome as that dreamy Ryan Reynolds.” We’re on to you, Gosling, and let us just warn you: your charm is working. Like. A. Glove.

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Ryan Reynolds’ Top 20 Hottest Looks

Are Ryan Reyonlds and Sandra Bullock dating? They looked awfully cuddly at the Change-Up premiere in Los Angeles earlier this week. Or is Ryan Reynolds hooking up with Charlize Theron? We can’t keep track of Ryan’s love life, but we do know one thing for certain…the ladies are definitely digging what this guy serving. And we get it! Ryan is a hottie and we know you feel us so we’ve gathered 20 of Ryan’s hottest (and most handsome) looks. Check ‘em out!

Ryan Reynolds Discusses His Recovery After Being Struck By A Drunk Driver

It should come as no surprise that drinking and driving no laughing matter. Just ask Ryan Reynolds. The Change-Up hunk recently opened up about his hellish ordeal after being struck by a drunk driver at the age of 19. “I was at a bar and I had a few drinks,” he told CTV in his native Canada (where the drinking age is 18). “And I thought, ‘You know what I’m going to do? I’m going to leave my car here, be responsible.’ I started to walk home and I was hit by a drunk driver.” It’s stories like this that make us question karma.

And this was no small bump, either. The impact left him in a coma and “broke every bone in my left side. I woke up three days later.” Oh my god, dude! We’re sorry for every bad things we said about The Green Lantern! But at least he had family around when he finally came to. “I remember my dad sitting there [with] a vomit tray. And I guess I had been heaving in my unconscious. And nothing says love like painting someone with three-day-old Gin Rummies. Just soaked the man head to toe in my vomit.” That’s love, Ryan.

He seems to have recovered, but says that’s not totally the case. “Since then, I’ve been a rickety, broken mess.” He’s gotta be kidding, because we know a decent number of people who think he’s pretty perfect. Like his old “friends” Sandra Bullock and Charlize Theron, for a start…

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Sandra Bullock And Ryan Reynolds Look Very Date-y At Change-Up Premiere

Are Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds sure they’re not dating? Like, totally sure? Maybe they just forgot. We forget stuff all the time. Like that time we locked our keys on our apartment, or that time we were dating that gorgeous A-list actress. It just slipped our minds. Maybe they’re relationship is like that. Because we gotta say that they were quite the adorable couple last night at the premiere of The Change-Up.

Reynolds stars along side Jason Bateman, but Sandra showed up to be his surprise date. Awww. What are “friends” for, right? Yeah yeah, we know Ryan’s supposedly hooking up with that other gorgeous Oscar-winner, Charlize Theron. But it can’t stop us from dreaming, right? It just seems too perfect! See what we mean in the gallery below, as well as hot looks from Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde, Leslie Mann and Jonah Hill.

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Charlize Theron And Ryan Reynolds Are Dating, Form World’s Hottest Couple

Well, well, well – it’s a match made in gossip heaven. Charlize Theron and Ryan Reynolds are allegedly dating and have been for a few months, reports Us Magazine. Says their source, “They’re exclusive, and it’s very hush-hush.”

Not anymore! Us reports that Reynolds was spotted leaving Theron’s house last month on his motorcycle. According to the tabloid they are a perfect match because they are “both career-focused but not in a crazy way.” Or maybe they work because they’re the two hottest people on the planet. One or the other.

Reynolds is currently starring in The Green Lantern, while Charlize is heading to London soon to work on Snow White and the Huntsman with Kristen Stewart. Okay, so we’re already getting our hopes up for some triple dates with Rob and Kristen and Sienna and Tom. Sue us!

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