How Hollywood Couples Make Long Distance Work

Back before the days of Brangelina, Angelina Jolie used to boast that she would fly for eleven hours each Friday just to see then-husband Billy Bob Thorton for ten hours of wild lovin' before flying back to the set of 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.' The couple would also write love letters in one another's blood. That relationship didn't turn out so hot, so it seems that simple might just be better when it comes to a LDR.

So, what's the secret to staying together when work forces you apart for long periods of time? Here's what some celeb couples do to keep their love fresh across thousands of miles.


'Mamma Mia' co-stars Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper say they keep their long distance communication real, maybe a little too real. The pair Skypes when she is in New York and he is in London, but after three years of dating they don't do anything especially sexy in front of their web cams.

"The other day, I was cleaning, he was cleaning. We couldn't see each other -- we were just scrubbing away and talking like we were in the same room," Seyfried told InStyle Hair magazine.

Hilary Duff's hockey-playing fiance, Mike Comrie, has to spend his season in Ottawa, which has Duff commuting up north during the winter months. In the meantime, they too make use of technology to stay in touch.

"We iChat a lot ... iChat's great!" the starlet told E! online. "We text message, call. I go visit as much as I can. But we're in a very comfortable place, so it's not nerve-racking. We both want it to work and care enough about it, so it finds a way to work itself out."

'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson has the opposite problem. He is with girlfriend Kristen Stewart, as the pair finish filming on the 'Twilight' saga, all the time. Pattinson thinks a little long distance loving would actually improve his relationship.

"It is hard, but I guess in someways being away from someone is always ... if you really like them it makes, in a strange way, makes it better because the more time you spend away the more you're thinking of them, the more you want to see them again, so I guess being away ... not spending too much time with someone is always a good thing to do," the British actor said back in March. He might be on to something.

Eva Longoria Parker has said that her long distance relationship with ball-player husband Tony Parker is what makes her marriage work.

The 'Desperate Housewives' actress says that she divides her time between LA, where she shoots the hit show; Texas, where Tony plays for his basketball team; and her in-laws home in France.

"[When we"re together] it is a honeymoon, because we only have three days together and we hardly fight because we know we don't have much time. All the little things that couples argue about -- we let them slide."

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