Proof of Life The film stars Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe. During production, the two lead actors had a romantic affair. At the time, Ryan was married to Dennis Quaid, but the two divorced in 2001. The film garnered much reportage in the tabloid press in association with the lead actors' affair. The film is dedicated to Will Gaffney, an actor who was David Morse's stand-in. He was killed in an on-set accident during a scene in which Morse was not available, due to a family illness. Alice Bowman (Meg Ryan) moves to the (fictional) South American country of Tecala because her engineer
Meg Ryan Volcano"—a commercial disappointment which later developed a cult following. Hanks and Ryan would be paired for a third time in the film "You've Got Mail". She was offered the role of the protagonist Clarice Starling in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), but rejected it due to its gruesome and violent themes. In 1994, Ryan took a role that differed from the romantic-comedy ingenue character for which she had become famous. In Luis Mandoki's "When a Man Loves a Woman" (1994), a romantic social drama film also starring Andy Garcia, she played an alcoholic high-school guidance counselor. The film and