Hayden And Nat, A Couple Or Not?

Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 9:23 AM Central

by Heather Koehler

Falling for your co-star has become fairly routine in Hollywood but Hayden Christenson says he and Natalie Portman are just good friends.

Even though the press continues to tell of intimacy between the two on the set of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, they insist it is just a friendship.

"We got to be great friends, nothing more," Anakin says. "She's personable, and a lot brighter than any girl I've ever known. But when it came to working together, we were both strictly professional."

Can you say, "saving face?"