Michael Sheen gushes about ‘intelligent & beautiful’ Rachel McAdams

Now that Michael Sheen and Rachel McAdams have publicly appeared as a couple, the adorable twosome has decided that they might as well own up to their relationship in the press.

“Yeah, we are together,” the actor told People.com Tuesday at the Cinema Society & Thierry Mugler screening of their new movie Midnight in Paris in New York.

The couple “came out” at the Cannes Film Festival last week, when they appeared holding hands. “I don’t think it was planned one way or the other,” McAdams said Tuesday of their going public with the romance.

But now that the world knows, Sheen just keep his excitement about his new girlfriend under wraps. “She’s talented, intelligent, beautiful. She’s warm and friendly. She’s very supportive, and very kind, very funny. She makes me laugh a lot,” he says of McAdams, 34.

As for McAdams, well, she has plenty of admiration for her man, as well. “He’s a fantastic actor,” she said. “One of the best.”

Woody Allen, Midnight’s director, said Sheen and McAdams’ off-screen romance came as a surprise to him.

“No, I didn’t see it coming,” he said. “I could notice it a little with Penélope [Cruz] and Javier [Bardem] – who began dating during the filming of Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. “They were kind of chummy. But I didn’t see it coming here … and they did not ask my permission.”

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