I agree--I don't buy the 'faux-romance' angle here. It's not that it couldn't or doesn't happen at all...surely it does. It's just that I think Jake has too much integrity as a human being to conform to some studio-mandated nonsense like that. (I'm not trying to suggest that the stars of the old Hollywood days didn't necessarily have integrity, but they had far fewer choices about living their lives and keeping their jobs). Jake has struck me as a sincere, decent-hearted person for a while now (didn't really know of him before Brokeback Mountain), and it's clear from these photos that he has some sort of feeling for Reese.