Ryan and actor Dennis Quaid were married for 10 years before the actress entered into a relationship with Crowe while they were filming 2000's Proof of Life. The relationship fizzled after just a few months. "I empowered myself by not staying in the thing with Russell," Ryan said in 2006. "I felt it was going to be repeating some similar patterns that I'd just gotten out of, and it was a drag because I was crazy about him."