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Robert Downey’s Birthday Brings out the A-List

April 6th, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff

Hollywood’s A-list couples came out to play on Saturday night, April 4, to celebrate Robert Downey Jr.’s birthday at Bond St. in the Thompson Hotel located in Beverly Hills.

In a very rare joint public appearance, RDJ’s Iron Man co-star Gwyneth Paltrow was accompanied by her hubby Chris Martin for the féte.

According to a source, they "arrived together looking very happy." Despite rampant rumors that the Oscar-winner and the Coldplay front man are having marital issues, the source said that on Saturday, "you could really tell they are content together."

Martin was not the only thing Gwyneth was digging.

"Gwyneth really liked the sushi," an onlooker tells OK! "She even stopped one of the servers carrying a tray to get more spicy tuna rolls."

But the winners of the night’s PDA award were Reese Witherspoon, whose left hand was without a ring, and Jake Gyllenhaal. "They looked so in love, and were really affectionate the entire night," a source tells OK!

NEW PICS FROM THE SET OF IRON MAN 2:

Among the 75 guests were Sting and his wife Trudie Styler, Ben Stiller and wife Christine Taylor, Iron Man director Jon Favreau, and Sam Rockwell, who is co-starring with Robert in the currently filming sequel.

Sam Rockwell: So Busy Having Sex

September 23rd, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

Sam Rockwell has played many a quirky character in his film career, his role in new movie Choke (based on the book by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk) might just be his quirkiest.

 

Sam’s Victor Mancini character in the dramedy is a sex-addicted con man who stages chocking scenes in restaurants to get attention, a life Sam tells Parade.com he wasn’t immediately in tune with.

 
"Well, I don’t think I’ve ever been one [a sex addict], so it took some work," he jokes. "I couldn’t really identify with what my character was doing at first. I went to some sex addict rehab meetings just to find out more about what these people are all about. I went anonymously and I think I was only outed one time. Thank goodness TMZ didn’t see me."

 

The reality of life as a sex addict isn’t sex, says Sam, and is actually sad.

 

"The ultimate effect is what you see in the movie, what a roller coaster ride this guy I play is taking and how numb he gets having sex with random strangers," he reveals. That’s what a lot of sex addicts face searching for escape."

 

As for all the onscreen sex required to portray the act with random strangers, Sam says he tried to lighten the mood on the set with jokes when filming the intimate scenes with his partners.

 

"A lot of them were there just for one day to do a sex scene with me so it was like, ‘Hi," and then the director would be saying, ‘Let’s go. We’ve gotta do this.’ And it was over and then it was on to the next one," he tells the magazine. "I personally didn’t have time to get nervous. I was so busy having sex."

Check out the rest of the inteview on Parade.com.
 

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