Hayek and "Sweet Home Alabama" actor Josh Lucas started dating shortly after Hayek's split from Norton in 2003. Not much is known about the couple's short relationship, and by September 2004, the two called it quits, as reported by People. Lucas himself explained the circumstances of their breakup two years later in a 2006 interview with GQ, saying, "If both people are working, it's a problem. In the case of Salma and I, she was in South Africa doing a movie and I was in Australia making Stealth, and with the time that we spent apart, invariably we broke up."