Mamma Mia, do we have a heartbreak story for you, Juicers! Hollywood romances can start just
as quickly as they can end. It isn’t unusual for celebs to be in love with one another on-screen
and it is even less unusual for them to fall in love off-screen as well.
But how do they navigate being around one another when their
real-life relationship has met a bitter end, but their characters are still in
love? Stay tuned, today we are looking at Dominic Cooper and Amanda Seyfried’s
relationship that ended with Amanda heartbroken and barely able to trust someone again.
The pair met in 2008 on the set of Mamma Mia. The costars’ characters played young
lovers on a Greek island and they were setting out to get married. It didn’t
take much for the young stars to become overly indulged in their roles and they fell in love
off-screen. Amanda even admitted that when you’re put into a situation as actors
where you have to make out with each other, it’s easy for things to get carried away.
They quickly started dating, and their relationship lasted 3 years until they called
it quits. Well, it was more like, she called it quits and then got back together with Cooper;
until he called it quits and then got back together with Seyfried,
and then she called it quits - well, you get the idea. This on-again, off-again relationship didn’t
leave anyone puzzled as to why the pair couldn’t keep their relationship strong and steady.
Amanda admits she fell hard for Dominic but she was wrong by foolishly thinking she was
in a monogamous relationship with the actor. You heard it right, Dominic wasn’t faithful
to the young actress. Apparently, he was still seeing his ex-girlfriend, actress Joanna Carolan
on and off while simultaneously seeing Amanda. It seems like Dom’s dating style is not a great one.
This would give anyone self-esteem issues and trust issues,
and the famous actress was no exception to these feelings. Seyfried admitted she got
her heart broken pretty badly and she finds it really difficult to open up to a new person.
She even struggled to open up to her now-husband, Thomas Sadoski , when she started dating him.
The way Cooper treated Seyfried was definitely noticed by other stars, including Cher. On the
set of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, the pair met and Cher was not his biggest fan. Amanda made it
clear to Cher that the couple had once dated and Cher’s reaction? She turned to Amanda in front of
Dominic and said, “You dodged a bullet there.” She could obviously see the pain he had caused Amanda.
He even spoke about this encounter in an interview with Vanity Fair
by saying that the legendary singer was immediately wary of him when they first
met - much to his delight of course! “She took one look at me and didn’t
trust me at all — and told me so herself, which I laughed out loud at,” he recalled.
He did say that Cher was joking around, and the two later got close and even grabbed dinner in
London months after they finished shooting the sequel. He speaks highly of the singer - even
though they started out on rocky terms - he finds her funny and a wonderful person to be around.
Dominic even spoke about what it was like filming with Cher by saying, “She was kind of
just mesmerizing, actually. There’s a reason why everyone stands up and screams when she comes on
screen because she’s at her best when she’s performing. It was unlike anything I’d ever
seen on a film set.” He may be wrong about a lot of things, but he isn’t wrong about that!
Cher really does take over every performance, but we should probably get back to our couple.
When Amanda and Dominic broke up in 2011, they probably couldn’t have predicted
they would end up reuniting almost a decade later.
The pair reprised their roles as Skyler and Sophie in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
In order to play the young married couple, they had to tap into some very old romantic
feelings they once had for one another. This was a lot more complicated now. Not only had those
feelings of love been buried with heartache, but Amanda was now married with a child.
In an interview, Dominic said, “She’s a friend. It was always going to be OK. You just have to be
delicate with those situations.” And Mamma Mia it was certainly a delicate situation!
They knew they were going to be working together again on a set
and it was going to take them back to a role that was going to remind them of 10 years earlier.
Cooper acknowledged that it was interesting to see how different their lives were after 10 years.
Could he be regretting letting Amanda go?
Even though the Mamma Mia actor handled the situation with grace,
Amanda’s husband had some reservations. She spoke in an interview and said that he has
the same kind of issues that she would have if they were hanging out with his
ex-girlfriend from a long time ago. That’s completely normal and understandable, right?
Or maybe we should rather trust our partners and communicate, otherwise what’s the point?
She further explained, “I think it’s always like, ‘I’m so in love,
so that person must be so in love with her, too.’ I assume everyone’s
in love with Tommy because I’m in love with him.” Well, that’s pretty sweet.
Ultimately, her husband’s jealousy of Dominic didn’t bother Amanda at all. She would rather
him be jealous than completely fine with it and other than Thomas’s reaction, he was apparently
very supportive. He loved the movie and got along really well with Dominic while they were shooting.
It has been almost 12 years since the couple parted ways and their love lives
have flourished. The actor was in a serious relationship with his co-star from Preacher,
Ruth Negga. The couple started dating in 2010 and broke up in 2018.
Suspiciously, the pair started dating when Cooper was technically still with Seyfried
and they broke up around the time Amanda and Dom were filming the Mamma Mia! sequel.
Ruth and Dominic apparently split because the relationship had run its course, and they remain
friends. It wasn’t long after their split that Cooper started dating Gemma Chan in 2018 and the
pair are still together. They live in London and keep their relationship as private as possible.
Amanda had a few short-term relationships from 2011 on,
namely with Ryan Phillippe , Andrew Joblon , Josh Hartnett), Desmond Harrington , and Justin Long.
All these men were American actors except Andrew Joblon who is a celebrity real estate executive.
She even sparked dating rumors with James Franco.
In May 2015 she met her husband, Thomas Sadoski. They met on the
Off-Broadway play The Way We Get By, but their timing was a little off. At the time,
Seyfried was in a relationship with Justin Long, and Sadoski was married to Kimberley
Hope . It wasn’t until February 2016 that they co-starred in The Last Word and fell in love.
Sadoski was now divorced and Justin Long was long gone.
Amanda has always said that Thomas never flirted with her or disrespected his ex-wife while they
were still married and that was another reason why she thought she could marry him.
It wasn’t even 6 months later that the pair had gotten engaged after a whirlwind romance.
The lovebirds secretly tied the knot a couple of months later.
You might say that it was a shotgun wedding.
Amanda was also 9 months pregnant with their daughter at the time.
According to the actor, they had their secret elopement because she wanted to
be married before giving birth - just in case something went wrong.
The couple announced the birth of their second child, a son,
in September 2020. Now, they have a precious family of four with a 5-year-old daughter,
Nina , and an almost 2-year-old son, Thomas . This couple seems unbelievably
happy but keeps their marriage and kids away from the public eye, naturally.
Although Dominic caused utter heartache for Amanda, they have both admitted that
it wasn’t weird reuniting on set as they had become good friends after breaking up. We can
only hope that the former couple talked it over and decided to bury the hatchet.
Even though their on and off again romance caused quite a
bit of damage and made Seyfried lose trust in people, she seems to have taken it back,
being able to form a healthy relationship full of love and support.
These days, both Seyfried and Cooper enjoy their home life as much as they do their careers.
And we can only wish the best for the former couple!