Aaron Eckhart has a jaw so square it’s almost cartoon handsome. He is lean, athletic and wearing a navy suit that was handmade in Italy. In Thank You For Not Smoking he was glaringly amoral as a lobbyist defending the rights of smokers with a smile that he says was inspired by Tony Blair. In Neil La Bute’s In the Company of Men he was an arrogant and angry marketing executive who flirted with, seduced and cruelly dumped a deaf secretary as part of a plan hatched with his brutal friends just to prove he could. Several years later, he began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Sydney, Australia for his high school senior year. He left high school without graduating, but earned a diploma through an adult education course, and graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film. ‘She’s wanted to work with him for years and was completely flattered that she was his first choice to be the leading lady in this movie. They’re getting along so well that everyone is gossiping about something more going on between them.’ The source continued: ‘I think the fact that both of them have been single for a couple of months is contributing to the chemistry they have on this film, even when they aren’t shooting. He was engaged to actress Emily Cline, whom he met on the filming of In the Company of Men, however they went their speared ways in 1998.
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