Michael Dating Gina Rage???

Rumor Alert: So in Michael's recent interview in August Magazine, he mentioned he is dating someone who is in a film coming out this December but is not really an actress by trade and that she is a "tough chick" who could "kick his ass". Well one could GUESS that he is referring to Gina Rage, Mixed Martial Arts fighter who is starring in Scarred this December. Well guess what? Gina Rage commented on a Michael Reese Meyers' Facebook status update yesterday. He wrote "I won the Spike TV Scream award for Best Actor in Quantum of Solace! Thanks to everyone who voted for me!" and Gina commented "Congrats! When R U Taking me out to celebrate babe?" Hmmmmm......Michael, knowing his temper, dating a trained mixed martial arts fighter....could be a recipe for disaster...or a passionate, rough, sexy love...only time will tell....

Tidbit: For those who don't know, here is some quick info on Gina: Her real name is Gina Joy Ragenelli Carano. She was born April 20, 1982 in Dallas, Texas and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when she was 13. She is the middle daughter of a former Dallas Cowboys quarterback. Her parents divorced when she was 12. Her father stayed in Dallas and she moved to Las Vegas with her mother and younger sister. It was around that time she began to experiment with alcohol and drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, and other pills to deal with the pain of their divorce and the breakup of the family. She admitted she was partially influenced by her older sister who was at college at the time and was also addicted to drugs at the time. After a tumultuous high school tenure filled with trouble and arrests as well as watching her older sister overdose and almost die, she quit drugs and found solace in fighting and martial arts. She trained very seriously for many years and worked her way up the ranks of Muy Thai fighters. She went on to become a champion fighter in women's MMA and is known as the "Face of Women's MMA". She was undefeated until losing in 2009 to Sylvia "Cyborg" Diaz. Since then she filmed her first feature film Scarred and has not fought since. She continues to model and appear on magazine covers, recently winning "Sexiest Woman in Sports" crowned by Maxim, beating out tennis star Maria Sharapova, U.S. soccer goalie Hope Solo, and race car driver Danica Patrick.

Michael wins SCREAM Award for 007

Last night Spike TV had their annual SCREAM Awards show and Michael won for Best Actor for his performance as James Bond in Quantum of Solace. He did not attend the awards show but did accept the award via video. You can watch his video HERE at Spike TV's website. Congradulations Michael and we cannot wait until the next Bond adventure!

New Interview for August Magazine

Morning is his favorite time of day. You would think a party animal like Michael Reese Meyers was a night owl but he enjoys the quiet of a 7am stroll through the park listening to his iPod or grabbing a quick coffee at the local Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts. "It's peaceful, I love it", he says. That is, until he sees the joggers holding hands. "Couples ruin it for me though. I have to turn away". Meyers still winces at the sight of romantic bliss. Not out of disgust, but out of jealousy. The world famous, incredibly well off Oscar nominated actor, who has bedded and dated some of the most beautiful women in the industry, is still, quite lonely. "I'm ready for love. I really think I am. I always wanted it, but I wasn't READY for it." Maturity, he feels, was the one thing keeping him back from getting the one thing he wants most in life, "happiness". He knows he has to put on a happy face and promote his new romantic drama If I Had You, which opens this week in cinemas and co-stars Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Rosie Huntington, but inside, he is dreading the inevitable topics he will have to face during the press tour. "It's a film about love, something that has eluded me my whole life, so of course I'm gonna hate talking about (love)".

Meyers plays a reformed drug addict turn successful restaurant owner in the film who tries to win back Keira's character, his ex-girlfriend from years past in the film, away from her emotionally distant husband (Worthington) who is away on a business trip with his flirtacous co-worker (Huntington). Meyers had to dawn a British accent for the role, something he's done twice before, the first being his very first movie role in Bend It Like Beckham (which also starred Knightley as a love interest for his character) and the second being his turn as James Bond 007 in this summer's Quantum of Solace. Meyers can relate to having to rehabilitate your image to get a female to trust you again. "I have to do it all the time" he says when courting a female who believes the media image of his bad boy womanizing ways is true. He admits he could never be with female friends like Keira Knightley or Olivia Wilde, both of whom he refers to as "like older sisters" because he isn't mature enough yet. "I have to be the man I want to be for a woman of that caliber and class to want to be with me, I know that now". The wise sage who informed him of this, his current squeeze, well former squeeze, Neve O'Reilly...the Irish actress he met on the set of Trust Me in New York this summer who will be his co-star in next year's Oliver Stone thriller The Devil's Double. "She's been a life changing person in my life. A best friend, a lover, everything. She taught me so much and I am forever grateful". The two are no longer together he says but when he informed her of the types of women he wants to be with she informed him "what do you have to offer these types of women?" That's when he realized he was constantly feeling "not good enough" for a reason, because he wasn't. Lately he has been reaching out to L.A.'s homeless, visiting shelters every other day and making friends with a few of them, including an old man named "Bobby", a pregnant 19 year old named "Roxeanne", and a 22 year old named Erica whom he recorded a video with and put on his website. "I wanna participate in charities more. I want to travel. Be more politically aware. More artistic. Just be a more well rounded person whose daily life doesn't revolve around when I'm getting laid next."

Meyers feels every girl he meets has a profound impact on him and the way he sees things, but he is ready to settle down. "I want love, marriage, all that. Not sure if I want kids or not, but I have time to decide. I gotta meet the right girl first". He has had a few offers that he has turned down though. "Oh some girls have hollered", he confesses with a sly smile. After denying to say who for almost 5 minutes, he is persuaded to reveal what Hollywood females have called asking for his attention. "Michelle Rodriguez. She actually e-mailed me once and wanted to go out. I told her I was busy and would get back to her but I never did". When asked why he simply goes "I don't know, not my type". He also name drops The Roommate actress Minka Kelly as a suitor as well. "Minka Kelly tried to get at me but she was with Derek Jeter at the time and I didn't need the drama". He admits a few years ago, he would have not cared whether or not she was in a relationship, but not anymore. "I just don't get a good vibe from her. Never met her but I have heard things and just from watching her interviews and stuff, something about her, something in her eyes, tells me she's arrogant. That's the last thing I need right now."

He admits to the fact that he is in the very early stages of dating a new lady but refuses to name her. "Don't wanna jinx it. In the past I didn't care about saying who I'm dating but now I just wanna keep it to myself." He does confess she is starring in a movie that is coming out this December but she is not really an actress by profession. "She's a tough chick. She could kick my ass, haha. But I like her alot. Physically she's exactly my type and most importantly she has a great laid back personality, confidence, swag, sexy eyes, seductive stare, a dope voice, she's just a cool ass chick." When it comes to dating, he feels emotionally exhausted with it all and hopes this new girl can change that. "I just feel so numb to it all. Like going on dates doesn't even excite me anymore. I feel like I have dated and been with and chased so many girls, it is all so old to me now. There is no excitement there. I feel like it will end the same way it always does...(with me) getting hurt. It's almost boring now. I have been through so much and I don't know how to drop this baggage and be happy again and just be me around someone again without expecting the worst. Neve said I need to stop dating completely and just find myself or whatever, which makes sense. Wait until I feel excited about life and love again, wait until I truly find someone that drives me crazy. But the problem is I'm so addicted to being around women I don't know if I can do that. It's a back and forth battle I struggle with everyday. That's why I am taking it super slow with the girl I am talking to now. I mean SUPER slow. We only been communicating through text and phone for the past month. We will meet up next month sometime. As friends first. Really, just friends. I need to get to know her and let her know me and really do it right. I'm tired of the same old routine. True love needs to grow naturally. Sex is the last thing on my mind right now."

Shockingly, the question he seemed to have least trouble answering was the one I was most afraid of asking. "Do you still love or think about Mel?" I say. He quickly and confidently says "Yea. Of course. I still love the shit out of her. She was the one. I think about her everyday. I don't think you ever truly stop loving someone who leaves you, you just learn to live without them." Meyers smiles as he gazes out the hotel window, almost relieved he was finally able to admit that. "For the longest time I had to pretend I didn't care, but I do care". But he refuses to let Morley and the pain she put him through weigh him down and he has come up with a way to diminish his love for her. "Neve taught me to think about all the things about (Mel) I don't like and amplify them. Realize how these things would not have made me happy, and remind myself that one day I will find someone who has everything I need and none of Mel's mental issues. It really helped."

Michael plans next year after filming in the Middle East wraps to get back in the studio and work on a second follow up album to 2009's Chants of Reign CD. "I really wanna start making music again" he says with an inspired tone to his voice. "That first album was a person on the brink of sanity, on the edge of suicide, and alot of people related to it" he says. "I was in the darkest place you can imagine, but now I want something more positive and uplifting, to tell people, it's gonna be okay". But first he needs a muse. "For me, sadly, my happiness comes from relationships, so I need to be in a good one to write some happy love songs. I'm sick of being depressed, I wanna be happy. I don't know why but I just have a feeling something good is coming in the next year." When I ask if he thinks he will find love soon, he replies "I hope so, I hope so".

DJ David Guetta working with Meyers on second Chants of Reign album?

World famous music producer and DJ David Guetta recently mentioned in an interview he had with Fandango Magazine that he has been "hanging with actor Michael Reese Meyers alot lately" and that the actor "has really been itching to get back in the studio and record another album" with his group Chants of Reign. They released a CD in December 2009 titled "These Empty Streets and The Lonely Heart That Still Beats" which featured the songs "With This Knife" and "Love Misled", both of which were singles. Meyers wants Guetta to produce some tracks for the album and hopes to have it in stores by the end of 2012, according to Guetta. Sounds good to me. Many actors, such as Jared Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars and Ev Rachel Woods of Dryleaf, have been able to successfully go back and forth between acting and music and Meyers, if he wants to, should be able to do it too. Guetta did mention Meyers wanted the second album to have a more "uplifting feel" compared to the "depressing, dark, brooding, hopeless, melancholy mood of the first record". Guetta also interestingly added, "I think he is fueled or inspired by the women in his life. That's where his music comes from. I think maybe he is waiting to fall in love again so he can write some more happy positive stuff".

If I Had You Press Stuff

So this week we can expect to see the main cast of If I Had You make the rounds to promote the film and we want to make it easy for you to catch all the interviews.

-On Monday Rosie Huntington will be on David Letterman.

-On Tuesday Sam Worthington and Keira Knightley will be on The View and that same night Keira will be on Letterman.

-On Wednesday Knightley will be on Jay Leno.

-On Thursday head to moviecitynews.com to watch Michael and Keira together being interviewed by David Poland for his DP/30 series.

-Moviefone's UNscripted series will feature all four cast members and that interview will air online Friday.

You can also check for brief press junket interviews with them on various movie sites such as Collider.com and many others. The premiere for the film is Thursday night in Hollywood and we will have photos up Friday.