Meryl Streep and Martin Short surprised many at the premiere of Only Murders in the Building on Thursday night.
Streep, 75, and Short, 74, were seen holding hands on the green carpet.
This comes after Short insisted that he and the Oscar-winning Hollywood icon were “just friends.”
The couple were at the premiere of the fourth season of their show, which took place at the Paramount studio in Los Angeles.
They were also with them co-stars Selena Gomez and Steve Martin.
The actors play Loretta Durkin and Oliver Putnam, lovers who met when she was cast in the musical he was producing in the third season.
Meryl Streep and Martin Short surprised more than a few at the premiere of Only Murders in the Building on Thursday night
Streep, 75, and Short, 74, were seen holding hands on the green carpet.
Deadline also shared a video of the two holding hands.
And fans were quick to react.
“I just love living in a world where 75-year-old Meryl Streep is having a smooth start to her relationship with her 74-year-old boyfriend Martin Short,” one fan wrote in reaction to the clip of them holding hands.
“Please let them be real,” another pleaded.
“I love them together,” said one fan.
A representative for Short had denied there was a romance between the two after they appeared together at the Golden Globes.
“They’re just very good friends, nothing more,” the rep said at the time.
The two appeared to fuel speculation when they joked around together on the green carpet before the screening, holding hands and striking funny poses.
Smart has been widowed since his wife Nancy Dolman died of ovarian cancer in 2010. They have children: Katherine, 40, Oliver, 38, and Henry, 35.
Streep was married to entertainer Don Gummer for nearly 40 years, but the couple quietly split in 2017.
This comes after Short insisted that he and the Oscar-winning Hollywood icon were “just friends.”
They share four children: Henry, 44, Mamie, 41, Grace, 38, and Louisa Jacobson, 33.
Streep fans are excited at the prospect of a third Mamma Mia film after Christine Baranski raised the possibility in a recent interview.
“I was in London with Judy Craymer at our favorite bar, she’s planning Mamma Mia 3. She gave me the narrative plot of how it’s going to happen,” said the Emmy winner. The Hollywood Reporter in a recent interview.
The couple were at the premiere of the fourth season of their show, which took place at the Paramount studio in Los Angeles.
Also joining them were their co-stars Selena Gomez and Steve Martin.
The actors play Loretta Durkin and Oliver Putnam, lovers who met when she was cast in the musical he was producing in the third season.
‘We’ll all be on some fabulous Greek or Croatian island having a great time… Or so I hope.’
Craymer, who wrote and produced Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, confirmed she has been working on the project.
“There’s a story there, and I think Meryl (Streep) should come back, and if the script is right, she would, I think, because she really loved playing Donna. I don’t want to overstate it, but I know there’s a trilogy there,” she said. Deadline In May.
The fourth season of Only Murders in the Building will debut on Hulu on August 27.
