Michael Sheen & Rachel McAdams Confirm They Are Dating

Michael Sheen and Rachel McAdams have finally confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in Hollywood - they are actually a couple.

"Yes, we're together," the actor told People Tuesday at the film company and Thierry Mugler review of their new movie Midnight in Paris to New York.

Linked since the fall, Sheen, 42, and Rachel McAdams, 32, hit the red carpet arm in arm in Cannes last week to promote the film by Woody Allen.

"I do not think it was intended in one way or another," McAdams said Tuesday their IPO with the novel.

So what Sheen find special McAdams? "She is talented, intelligent, beautiful. She is warm and friendly. She is very friendly and very nice, very funny. She makes me laugh a lot, "he said.

And they have something in common besides acting? "I hope that some of these qualities as well," joked Sheen.

But they were shy about their private lives, the pair are effusive in discussing each other talents. "This is a fantastic actor," McAdams said of Sheen. "One of the best."

On appeal to the screen McAdams, Sheen said: "She has a real honesty and a real vulnerability on what it does. She has a real emotional presence. "

Allen, meanwhile, said the couple's romance, which began after the shooting wrapped, was a surprise for him. "No, I did not see it coming," he told People. "I saw a little with Penelope [Cruz] and Javier [Bardem] -. Who began dating while shooting Vicky Cristina Barcelona Allen "They were kind of buddy. But I did not see it coming here ... and they did not ask my permission."