They shared one of the most intimate on-screen relationships in modern film history. But off-screen, Dakota and Jamie kept it deeply professional—until she wrote him a letter.
It was 2017. The franchise had wrapped. Dakota was moving to New York. Jamie was raising his first daughter.
“I wanted to say thank you,” Dakota said. “And sorry. And maybe something else.”
The letter, never sent, sat in her drawer for five years.
In it, she wrote about trust, about long nights of filming when they were both exhausted, and about how Jamie made her feel safe in scenes that could have destroyed her.
She even thanked him for not falling for her.
In 2025, she finally gave it to him—at a private dinner in LA. Jamie read it, cried, and hugged her for five full minutes.
They never dated. But maybe, in another world, they did.
