A Look Back at the Time Natalie Portman & Gael García Bernal Dated

Hollywood is an industry that encourages beautiful people to date beautiful people. And in the early to mid-aughts, an unknown force gave us the mega beautiful couple comprised of Natalie Portman and Gael García Bernal. The two stars are both child actors who managed to transition into adult roles and have had long-lasting careers. They are also, unfortunately for us, very private.

While we’ve seen photographic evidence of their relationship (here’s them taking a stroll), few details exist about this time of their lives. As a result, a lot of the limited information that exists is unverifiable. But because we didn’t pay enough attention when this relationship was happening in real time, we’ve decided to gather as much as we can about the former couple. Here’s what we learned.