No Bad Blood Here: Michael Sheen, Sarah Silverman, and Kate Beckinsale Pose Together on the Red Carpet

Robert Kessler
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Michael Sheen, Kate Beckinsale, and Sarah Silverman. (Photo: Getty Images)

There are at least some adults in Hollywood. Not only did Sarah Silverman and Michael Sheen come out to support his ex, Kate Beckinsale, at the premiere of her new movie Tuesday night, but the threesome also posed for photos together.

Sheen and Beckinsale dated from 1995 until 2003; they have a daughter together, 16-year-old Lily. Since splitting up, they remain close friends and co-parents. Sheen has been dating Silverman since 2014, and Beckinsale is single again, having recently announced the end of her marriage to director Len Wiseman.

“We were very lucky in that we didn’t have an acrimonious split,” Beckinsale said of her and Sheen’s relationship in 2003. “We are still very close and [Lily] sees us around each other.“

Beckinsale has also called Sheen “one of my absolutely favorite people ever.”

At the premiere of Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship Tuesday, in which Beckinsale co-stars alongside Chloë Sevigny, not only was Sheen and Beckinsale’s closeness palpable, but it also appeared that Beckinsale bonded with her former partner’s new girlfriend.

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Kate Beckinsale and Sarah Silverman. (Photo: Getty Images)

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Despite having played Liz Lemon’s ultimate nightmare of a boyfriend on 30 Rock, in real life Michael Sheen is quite the ladies’ man. In addition to Beckinsale and Silverman, Sheen has been linked to his on-screen wife Caitlin FitzGerald, TV host Carrie Keagan, and British ballerina Lorraine Stewart, whom he dated for five years. He was also in a two-year relationship with Rachel McAdams, after the two met on the set of Midnight in Paris.

By all accounts, Sheen is an attentive father and partner, and he credits fatherhood with calming him.

“If I feel there is a situation where somebody is being very badly behaved or out of control or upsetting people needlessly, then I don’t hold back. I try to sort that out, but that happens less and less,” Sheen told Britain’s Seven magazine in 2010. “I think being a parent changes that. You can’t go flying off the handle all the time. You have to learn to be patient and tolerant. You can’t just walk away and you can’t just shout. It’s about people accepting your flaws as much as you accepting theirs… I don’t hit anyone any more. I haven’t hit anyone for a long time.”