We are used to seeing Ryan Phillippe in movies as the strong, brooding serious type. However, Phillippe is currently filming a comedy.

He was spotted on the set of his new project “MacGruber” (based on the Saturday Night Live sketches) in Albuquerque, New Mexico along with costar Kristen Wiig.

SNL actor Bill Hader recently said he’s excited to see the sketch get played out in a full-length film and can’t wait for the final product.

“I read the script, and it’s like a hard-R comedy, and it totally works. It’s hilarious. It’s kind of in the vein of, like, eighties action movies, like there’s a very definitive bad guy. I don’t know if I can talk about the plot too much, but it’s hilarious. The thing that kind of blew my mind about it is that it’s like a HARD-R movie. I was like, ‘What is this? This is f***ing ugly. You guys are really going to do this?’ And they’re like, ‘Yup.’ And I was like, ‘That is awesome. That is f***ing hilarious.”

Reese Witherspoon is on the cover of the April 2009 edition of Elle magazine. In her interview with the mag, Reese talks about her boyfriend, Jake Gyllenhaal, and her 2005 divirce to Ryan Phillippe.

About her divorce:
Witherspoon, 32, says the divorce was “very humiliating and very isolating. But, by the way, if it’s not painful, maybe it wasn’t the right decision to marry to begin with. Those are the appropriate emotions.”

“When people get in your face and say, ‘This will pass,’ you think, Are they crazy?” Witherspoon goes on. “I’m never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute and nothing’s ever gonna make sense again. And I still have moments where I’m like, Nothing’s ever gonna make sense again.”

The actress — who has two children, Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4, with Phillippe — says she tried to avoid the “blame game” with her ex.

“It’s a really easy thing to do, and I’m certainly guilty of it,” she admits. “[You have to] look at yourself and go, ‘What part of this do I need to own? Which part of this is my responsibility? And that’s the painful work that you have to go through to hopefully get some real life knowledge out of it.”

About her boyfriend:
She is now dating Jake Gyllenhaal, whom she met on the set of their 2007 drama, Rendition.

“He’s fabulous. He really is a fantastic guy,” says the star, who voices a toon in the animated flick Monsters vs. Aliens (out March 27). “Unfortunately, he’s not in the movie, so we can’t really talk about him.”

On being a young mother:
“When I first had Ava, I couldn’t afford [help]. And it was so hard,” she says. “I was out in Los Angeles, living [away from my family]. I really didn’t have any friends. And I had a baby. No one else who was 22 had a baby. I couldn’t go out.”

On the public’s perception that Reese is a control freak:

“I don’t think I’m a control freak,” she says. “I think I’m just fearful. I operate from a lot of fear, like, of things being lost or forgotten or neglected. Losing the spiritual rather than the physical.”

“It’s so funny to me that somehow I’ve been portrayed as a very, like, closed-off or uptight person,” she adds. “I’m very open.”

She’s especially open when it comes to food.

“I’m made of cookies after the holidays,” says Witherspoon, who denies she is diet obsessed. “Everything inside me is made of sugar and flour and a little red wine – a lot of red wine.”

Ryan Phillippe is definitely dedicated to fitness. He showed everyone his toned body while running down stairs in the Hollywood Hills, where he recently bought a $7 million house.

Ryan is one pretty piece of man meat!

It seems that Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish are getting more comfortable taking their romance public.

Phillippe, 33 — who recently finalized his divorce from ex Reese Witherspoon — has been spending lots of time with Cornish, 25, at his new $7 million, five-bedroom pad in the Hollywood Hills. He probably got a huge settlement in the divorce.

Their fling was partially to blame for the end of Phillippe’s marriage to Witherspoon, 32. Phillippe and Cornish wrapped their arms around each other at a summer barbecue in Los Angeles Saturday night.

“Ryan definitely has a thing for her, and things are always good when they’re together,” a source says.

Said a witness, “They seemed really into each other … he was all over her.”

“After the divorce, I was a physical wreck. I wanted to die,” Phillippe has admitted. “I was ready to kill myself.”

I’m not sure how sincere Phillippe is.  Maybe he did feel that terrible, but he was also the one who had the affair in the first place.

Reese Witherspoon and boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal have recently moved in together.

I think Jake is probably a much better match for Reese anyway.  It just makes more sense to me that they are together.  I guess things always have a way of working themselves out in the end.

Days after he told Howard Stern that Jake Gyllenhaal is “a good dude”, Ryan Phillippe admits he avoids looking at photos of his ex Reese Witherspoon and the hunky actor in magazines.

“It’s bizarre,” the Stop-Loss star, 33, tells USA Today. “There’s plenty of times when I say, ‘What a strange situation I’ve found myself in.’ But at a certain point you know it’s going to happen, so you are prepared in some fashion.”

Phillippe — who dated co-star Abbie Cornish around the time of his 2006 split from Witherspoon — was mum when it came to talking about his own love life.

“It’s just something I would really rather not address,” he says. “It has to be a ‘no comment.’ ”

But he says he is open to walking down the aisle again one day.
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Ryan Phillippe wishes ex-wife Reese Witherspoon happiness with her boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal.

“He’s a good dude,” Phillippe said on The Howard Stern Show Thursday. “I love her and I want her to be happy, and it seems like she is.”

Phillippe described his 2007 divorce from Witherspoon as a “mutual” decision.

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Ryan Phillippe calls his divorce from Reese Witherspoon after seven years of marriage, “the darkest, saddest place I had ever been.”

Phillippe, 33, “There were a good four or five months of not being able to get out of bed. It was the worst time in my life.”

But that was then. “You get through it,” Phillippe says now. “It’s a process that’s not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day.”

The marriage produced two children for the couple: Ava, now 8, and Deacon, now 4. The pair’s split prompted speculation that acting couples cannot peaceably co-exist – especially when the woman earns more than the man (let alone wins an Oscar). Phillippe acknowledges that theory, but doesn’t necessarily buy its premise.

“I certainly understand the level of interest that comes along with a public marriage, and with being married to someone like Reese, who so many people love with good reason. People want answers,” he says. “But I think sometimes they wouldn’t be happy with what the answers would be.”

Instead, he says, the reason for the breakup was “far more complicated and far less interesting than it’s made out to be. To look and search for these salacious reasons, to pin it on a person, or a moment in someone’s life, it’s not realistic.”

Though the drama of the divorce has died down – and he and Witherspoon, 31, “have done a really good job at keeping things peaceable and completely focused on” the children – “I spend a lot of time just holed up in my house in Los Angeles,” he says. “I don’t really go out because I know it’s going to turn into a photo shoot.”

Though Phillippe is in the new movie Stop-Loss, a drama about Iraq war soldiers, he admits that the main reason he’s of interest to the paparazzi “is because I was married to the highest-paid actress in the world. Even though I’m not with her any longer, there is a certain amount of notoriety that I guess sticks beyond.”

Say he, “It’s just not interesting to me. It’s not how I want to be defined.”

As for reports that his current costar, Abbie Cornish, was the third wheel in his marriage, and one of the possible causes of the divorce, Phillippe laughs off the notion.  Phillippe began dating Cornish while he was still married to Reese Witherspoon.

“It was unfair for her to be called the names that she was, because it wasn’t about that,” he says. “I don’t think an outside person can ever cause a divorce. I had difficulties in my relationship, and in my marriage, long before I ever met her.”

Ryan Phillippe picked up son Deacon from soccer practice in L.A.

Aw!  Cute!