Back during the Toronto Film Festival, LaineyGossip had some interesting scoop on a would-be new, hot, interesting couple. Apparently, Michael Sheen and Rachel McAdams were all up on each other at an event at TIFF. They would be an unconventional couple it seems – Rachel is in line to become a go-to younger actress who would be expected (by the tabloids and fans) to date hot dudes like Ryan Gosling. Michael is an actor’s actor who has, in the past few years, found a wonderful niche as a go-to dramatic actor (with solid comedic chops). Anyway, Lainey claimed they were coupling up, and now the Canadian press (and Page Six) seem to be verifying it:

So, how’s this for the Commonwealth Games? In one corner: hometown fave and noted damsel in non-distress Rachel McAdams. In the other: Michael Sheen, a chameleonic force, that of the Welsh variety. Together, they’ve been providing a united front of late, seen all over town, doing the great decathlon of love.

It’s on, really it is. McAdams, who toyed with Sherlock Holmes on the big screen recently, and that gent who’s played Tony Blair (many times) and the white rabbit (in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland) and, oh, even Liz Lemon’s romantic snare on 30 Rock (but just passing through) are, by all accounts, together. So together.

“Their happiness is making my day,” is how an eyewitness actually put it to me, when he ended up having brunch beside them at Gilead Cafe, on the east end of Toronto, on Saturday. There was no dissenting evidence as to the state of their couple-hood, let’s just say. And the early stages of romance must do wonders for one’s appetite, because the thesps were seen not long before, in the same neck of the woods, at Le Petit Dejeuner, on King Street East.

Hands in clasp, they “stood outside,” another spy tells me, as there was a “lineup as always” at the popular spot. Both of them were topped off with cute hats to stave off the rain.

By evening, the centrifugal force that is love had led Rachel and Michael to the same dusk-till-dawn streets that had drawn out so many others in Toronto — the arty bacchanal known as Nuit Blanche! Getting into the spirit, they caught a few things, including the ah-isn’tthat-sweet? singalong that had been planned at the new Bell Lightbox. It was a singalong set to movie scores –how fitting was that?

This more-than-friends weekend comes, I should add, on the heels of the two meeting at Cheval, here on the west side, during the filmfest. A party it was then for Sheen’s weeper of a film, Beautiful Boy, and as the watchful Lainey Lui, of LaineyGossip.com,reported then, it was definitely sparks-ville. They were talking and “kept talking and not talking to anyone else,” is the way she put it. This is how things kinda line up, by the way: Sheen is 10 years our girl’s senior, has been burning up the stage in London for years before he was “discovered” in America, and happens to share a daughter with ex-wife Kate Beckinsale.

Rachel, meanwhile, upped her stakes by appearing on the cover of Vogue a few months back, spent most of her summer filming a movie for Woody Allen in Paris (and returns next to the screen in a curiousity with Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford) and is best known (romantically speaking) for her storybook (but ultimately doomed) relationship with Ryan Gosling.

[From The National Post (Canadian)]

I think it’s totally on. And I think it’s totally hot. Michael Sheen – while not my idea of a “Hot Guy” – is completely respectable and lovely and adorable, plus he’s really talented. Rachel is hot – very, very pretty, and she keeps her junk under wraps very well. They have the potential to be a very interesting power couple. I want this to be real.

Rachel and Michael on Sept. 12, 2010. Credit: WENN.