However, “he didn’t act until he was well into his thirties,” Huntington-Whiteley explained, “so he had this significant period of life where he worked as a painter and decorator, was at the doors of clubs, and traded at the market stall.”
His years of piecing everything together meant “he’s got that real groundedness,” she summarized, “and I love the fact he will pass that on to our child as well.”
Not that the two rushed their way to that particular milestone.
Instead, they dedicated themselves to building that foundation, with their official hard-launch occurring at the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscars party, followed by a trip up the Met Gala steps months later, just weeks before she made her big screen debut in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Her leap to the big screen had come rather, well, fast and furious. “I got a phone call,” she recounted to Glamour in 2013. “I had an audition. Three weeks later I was on set.” But, like Statham, she spent her formative years working her way to success.
