Annette Bening and Warren Beatty in 1992.Photo:ARNAL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
ARNAL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Annette Beningis recalling her first impressions of her husband of nearly 32 years,Warren Beatty.
As theNyadactress, 65, appeared onThe Drew Barrymore Show, she recalled first meeting Beatty, now 86, on the set of their 1991 movieBugsy.Beatty starred in the film as early-20th-century mobster Benjamin Siegel (aka “Bugsy”), while Bening played his girlfriend, Virginia Hill.
“He was making this movie. They hired me to play the woman in the movie, and, yeah, we fell in love,” Bening recalled. WhenDrew Barrymore, 48, asked whether the pair felt “love at first sight,” Bening laughed and said Beatty claims he fell in love instantly.
“So, for me, I have to be honest, I was going to meet him and he was incredibly intelligent. That was honestly the most — [that was] the biggest aphrodisiac,” she said. “Funny and super smart. Now, he is also very handsome.”
“That doesn’t hurt. He’s not Warren Beatty for nothing,” Barrymore added.
“It didn’t hurt,” Bening agreed. “I thought, ‘Wow, this is quite a guy.’ "
Annette Bening and Warren Beaty on March 14, 1992.Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images
Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images
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Beatty previously told PEOPLE he wastaken with Bening immediatelywhen they met. He famously toldBugsydirector Barry Levinson, “I’m going to marry her,” after his first meeting with Bening.
Bening said onThe Drew Barrymore Showthat she initially approached meeting Beatty as a strictly professional relationship. The pair married in 1992.
“I really thought about it professionally, to be honest, I really did when I first met him,” she said. “I didn’t think that there would be, like, athingbetween us. I think marriage is like the greatest thing and greatest challenge to really make it all work and to stay together, and that is the thing that I am so, so proud of with us.”
Annette Bening and Warren Beatty on Sept. 25, 2021.Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Bening shared with PEOPLE in 2022 that Beatty proved “very talkative” when they first met. “He was very passionate about the movie that he was about to make,” she said at the time. “He had a lot to say — and he was charming, for sure.”
source: people.com
