Jake Gyllenhaal got a chance to roast ex-girlfriend Natalie Portman at last night’s Palm Springs International Film Awards. The two dated back in 2002, and were rumored to have re-kindled their romance in 2006.

Before awarding Portman, 29, the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Jake Gyllenhaal was unabashed in his praise for his one-time girlfriend, whom he dated briefly in 2006.

“Natalie is the Audrey Hepburn of our generation,” the actor says, “She is elegant, graceful, has amazing eyebrows … is talented, really short, funny, smart, dedicated, incredibly kind.”

But despite her attempts to prove otherwise, no one is perfect, and with Portman’s fiancé, Benjamin Millepied looking, – and laughing – along, Gyllenhaal eventually got around to the “flaws” of the this award season’s it girl.

“She’s a vegan, which makes it really frustrating when you’re picking a place to eat,” Gyllenhaal said with a laugh, before adding, “She’s also recently announced that she’s going to be a mom, and her child will probably need therapy after seeing Black Swan.”

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Nicole Kidman wants to play matchmaker for her on-screen husband, Aaron Eckhart.

In their new movie together, Rabbit Hole, Aaron and Nicole star as a couple whose son died in an accident and Aaron takes off his shirt. Nice!

Nicole said that she “begged Eckhart to play opposite her”, saying that he’d be a terrific husband on camera, as well as off.

People magazine reports:

“I think he would,” the Oscar winner, 43, tells PEOPLE. “Because he’s very loyal and because he has a strong moral center – and he’s fun.”

And Kidman’s not the only one smitten with Eckhart. Tammy Blanchard, who plays Kidman’s sister in the film, says it was his “supportive” off-screen actions that won her over.

“He was very giving, and he asked [Kidman] if she needed anything or if she wanted anything when the camera wasn’t running,” Blanchard, 33, tells PEOPLE. “And that’s when you can tell when someone is very supporting and not selfish.”

Even Sandra Oh, who also plays Eckhart’s love interest in the film, thinks he’d make a good spouse. “Aaron’s mysterious and he’s complex,” Oh, 39, tells PEOPLE. “He’s a very, very complex, deep, deep, deep lovely man.”

As for Eckhart – who last year was linked to actress-jewelry designer Molly Sims – well, he’s not so sure if he’s Mr. Right.

“I don’t really know,” he tells PEOPLE. “God, I’d be as good as anybody else – there are some terrible husbands out there.”

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“Rabbit Hole,” starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, is an adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer prize-winning drama about a fraying family.

The story traces the life of a happily married couple that is disrupted by an unexpected tragedy and the emotional journey they must undertake to regain happiness.

Kidman plays a suburban mother dealing with the loss of a child. Eckhart will play Kidman’s husband, who is trying to hold on to the memory of his dead son while dealing with his emotionally removed wife.

With a budget of less than $10 million, a brisk 28-day shoot “Rabbit Hole” is more like an indie than a Hollywood production.

“This is a passion project for Nicole,” Eckhart said, “The reason why I’m in the movie is Nicole. If she wants to work with somebody, then that’s what happens.”

“When I first responded to it, it was because I read it, and it was about grief, which fascinates me,” Kidman said. “Loss and love seem to be themes that run through my work.”

This film is about “a marriage and the way that people fuse through pain, that you can either be pulled apart or you can come together. In the same way that ‘Birth,’ a film that I did, was about loss of the loved one who’s your partner in life, this is the most profound loss, and it’s the worst place to tread. And so my nature tends to be to explore something that I’m terrified of.” [source: NYTimes.com]

The movie is directed by John Cameron Mitchell from the script which Lindsay-Abaire adapted from his own stage play. Sam Raimi was actually attached to direct, but dropped out to do “Spider-Man 4.”

“Rabbit Hole” also stars Dianne Wiest, Tammy Blanchard, Sandra Oh, Giancarlo Esposito and Jon Tenney.

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In Jennifer Aniston’s upcoming romantic drama Love Happens (out Sept. 18), she plays a florist who falls for a motivational speaker (Aaron Eckhart). Watch the trailer (above) and tell Us below if you think the two have chemistry.

Aniston recently joked that the movies she films have “a strange parallel” with her personal life, citing Rumor Has It and Derailed as examples.

“If anyone has a movie called Everlasting Love With an Adult Stable Man, that would be great!” she joked at the the Women In Film 2009 Crystal + Lucy Awards on June 12. “I’m at table six, and my agents are at table 12.”

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Aaron Eckhart walking through Beverly Hills.  I think he’s très sexy.

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