Rose Byrne explains why she & Bobby Cannavale never got around to getting married
Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale have been together for years. They have two kids together, Rocco (5) and Rafa (3), and they live happily in Brooklyn. Only Rose got work in Australia during the pandemic, so they’ve spent a huge chunk of the past sixteen months in Sydney. Rose is currently promoting her AppleTV series Physical, which is why she chatted with the Sydney Morning Herald about the show, the pandemic and about whether she and Bobby will ever get married.
Leaving New York in the early days of the pandemic: “It was scary, trying to figure out how to get out and be safe. And no one knew anything, right? We were all in this boat of, ‘What is this?’ It was a very, very weird atmosphere in the city. Bobby and I went to see Girl from the North Country on Broadway, then, two days later, Broadway shut, and by that weekend it was awful. All of a sudden there was this tsunami, tidal wave, of this fearsome thing coming, then it just arrived and it was like, ‘Whoa.’ Then people we knew started to get it. Bobby lost friends.”
Her show ‘Physical’: “The whole [show] to me was so interesting. “The two worlds, the duality; the duality of the aerobics world and her oppressive marriage, her illness, her terrible relationship with herself. And it felt almost like a companion piece to Mrs America, because it starts in 1981 while Mrs America finished in 1980, so it was a clear through line for me, of the disillusionment a lot of women felt after the women’s movement.”
Moving to LA at the age of 18: “It’s an overwhelming city, but I had friends. Heath [Ledger] was a good friend of mine. We’d done a film together [Two Hands in 1999] and he was incredibly generous. He would take me under his wing and help me out for those first few years, always getting me in, auditioning for his movies, putting me up at his house.”
On Heath’s death: “I mean, listen, it’s obviously a tragedy. We had come over here together, then his career went like a freight train and … it’s so sad. He had an electric kind of energy.”
Whether she’ll ever marry Bobby: “I keep going, ‘Let’s get around to it, let’s do it.’ And then, you know, you have a baby, and then, oh, there’s another baby. It was kind of like that for us. I love weddings, and I know people [for whom] it’s an important thing, and I respect that totally. I guess for us it’s just been, we didn’t do it, we’ll do it, then – no! Pandemic.”
They’ll go back to Brooklyn eventually: “Brooklyn is home.”
They’ve been together nine years already! I think they’ll probably just be one of those couples to never marry. Which is fine! But just say that, I guess. Because Bobby and Rose could easily, you know, just get married tomorrow in Sydney with her parents there and their kids and it would be fine. They’re choosing not to. How you can not marry Bobby Cannavale??! That man is a smokeshow. As for what she said about Heath… I had no idea they were that close. That made me really sad.
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