Ali MacGRAW "knew" that she would have an affair with the co-star Steve McQueen: "I was obsessed"
The two stars had a short and tumultuous wedding after meeting the getaway.
According to Love story star Ali MacGRAW , his connection with the actor Steve McQueen (What she finally married) was almost inevitable when their paths passed like two of the largest screen icons in the early 1970s. After a troubled childhood, McQueen had challenged the chances of becoming a first man Hollywood plan, known for bringing her real passion for the racing car to roles like Bullitt And Le Mans . Meanwhile, MacGRAW, the daughter of two artists, had emerged the star from the 1969 rupture Goodbye, Columbus only to reach an even greater glory with its role in the 1970s Love story .
When the emblematic bad boy and the newly famous good girl met on the shooting of the film The escapacity In 1972, Sparks stolen. Read the rest to find out more about the reasons why the 84 -year -old said that she "knew" that she and McQueen would be used and on the troubled years that followed.
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She was married during their meeting.
When MacGraw played with McQueen, who was 12 years old in 1972, she was still in her second marriage. After a brief first marriage in the early 1960s, MacGraw met the producer Robert Evans When she auditioned for Love story . He threw him into what was going to become his career role as an unhappy student Jenny - and the two fell in love. With his slogan "Love means never having to say that you are sorry," the film has become successful success more than $ 100 million worldwide and strengthen the paw of the paw where Evans was chief of production .
MacGraw married Evans in 1969 and they welcomed a son, Josh , in 1971. The following year, he was offered the possibility of playing the woman of the character of McQueen The escapacity . According to his 1991 memories Moving images: an autobiography , she almost refused the role. Although it was ostensibly to spend time with her son, she was also struck by McQueen.
"The real reason why I hesitated was that I knew I was going to have serious problems with Steve," MacGraw wrote. Although she was married to a prosperous producer, she found the charismatic star difficult to resist.
"He was a man who could enter any room and man, woman and child who was all going to:" Whoa, what is it? "And I was no exception," she said People In 2018 .
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She has become "obsessed" by him.
Despite his hesitation, MacGraw finally signed the film - and his hypothesis proved to be valid. According to Vanity ,, Their business "started almost as early As they landed on site in Texas. "" AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"I have been obsessed with Steve since the moment he has entered my world," MacGraw wrote in his Memoirs, quoted by the magazine. "There was never enough air for me to breathe to change this feeling."
The relationship has propelled advertising for the film, which has become a success at the box office but is today considered one of the directors Sam Peckinpah lower efforts when they are judged against masterpieces The wild group And Straw dogs . "When the news of their inevitable affair ... contributed, this helped to fuel the interest in The escapacity with the public in a non -seen way since Elizabeth Taylor And Richard Burton connected to the set of Cleopatra , "noted the coil in a recent 50th retrospective anniversary Film critic.
They got married a year later, but the relationship was turbulent.
Before the end of 1972, MacGraw divorced Evans, an event The Paramount television series + The offer . She and McQueen married in July 1973.
McQueen insisted on the fact that MacGraw sign a prenuptial agreement stipulating that in the event of divorce, she would seek nothing, and she respected. He also asked her to stop working, and she left her career at the height of her fame to devote herself to raising their son. (McQueen also had two teenagers from a previous marriage to the actor Neile Adams .)
"He was the largest movie star in the world and He didn't want me to work "Said MacGRAW Closer every week In 2022. "So, I essentially stopped making films and I took care of my child." Or, as she said in her memoirs, "I played Cook, Cleaning Lady," simple "woman with a handle."
While MacGRAW wrote that the couple was happy "for a while", there were dark clouds looming. McQueen was a big drinker and a drug use, she wrote in his memories. And, at the same time, MacGraw had trouble His own alcoholism . In addition, she said Oprah Winfrey In a 2014 interview that His relations were prey By her inability to be herself and to say her mind, because she feared being abandoned if she did.
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They separated on his desire to continue to act.
According to Moving images , McQueen finally left the couple's shared house and in a series of hotels in Beverly Hills. At that time, rumors of his infidelity returned to him, wrote MacGraw, adding that she had started to cheat shortly after, looking for an escape.
The relationship already on rocks, in 1977, MacGRAW announced that it wanted to go back to play. "In this case We drop the divorce , "McQueen replied, according to 2011 Steve McQueen: a biography by Marc Eliot (as cited in Daily mail ). Despite his objections, MacGraw accepted a role in the 1978 Convoy . Although the pair was briefly reconciled in 1978, it was enough. They asked for divorce that year. McQueen died of lung cancer two years later in 1980 at the age of 50.
McGraw continued to make films and act, notably by joining the successful soap of the 80s Dynasty For a 14 episodes race in 1984. But she never remarried. Leaving Hollywood for Santa Fe, in New Mexico, the actor has been sober for decades-something she wants her ex-husband to also have achieved. "I want us to have aged sober," she said People in 2018. "There were wonderful days and terrible days."
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