{"id":17907,"date":"2026-07-26T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=17907"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:15:07","slug":"jason-statham-rosie-huntington-whiteleys-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=17907","title":{"rendered":"Jason Statham, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley&#8217;s Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>But, &#8220;he didn&#8217;t act until he was well into his thirties,&#8221; Huntington-Whiteley explained, &#8220;so he had this big chunk of life where he was a painters and decorator and he was on the door of clubs and he was on the market stall, trading.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His years of cobbling it all together meant &#8220;he&#8217;s got that real groundedness,&#8221; she summed up of Statham, celebrating his 59th birthday July 26, &#8220;and I love the fact he will pass that on to our child as well.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not that the two had raced their way to that particular milestone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rather they put in the work to build that foundation, their official hard-launch coming at the 2011 <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> Oscars party, followed by a trip up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/ca\/news\/met_gala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">Met Gala<\/a> steps months later, mere weeks before she made her big screen debut in <em>Transformers: Dark of the Moon<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her leap to the big screen had come on rather, er, fast and furious. &#8220;I got a phone call,&#8221; she recounted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/all-about-rosie-huntington-whi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><em>Glamour<\/em><\/a> in 2013. &#8220;I had an audition. 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