Nearly a decade after they crossed paths in the audition room, Ted and Mary began dating in 1993 after reconnecting on the film Pontiac Moon. They had just split from relationships — Ted with Whoopi Goldberg and Mary with Malcolm McDowell — but things heated up after they went on a canoe trip with friends.

"It was very magical," Ted said to People in 2018. "We came back in love, to be honest, or I'll say smitten."