Friends First
Bassett and Vance first met as college students in the 1980s, but it would be years before they became romantically involved. They were both in acting school at the time, and Vance was even seeing someone else. So anything more than friendship would take a long time for the duo to pursue.
Young And Busy
Of course, in the 1980s, two Ivy Leaguers — Bassett from Yale and Vance from Harvard — were preoccupied with their burgeoning careers… and also with other people. “He had a beautiful, beautiful girlfriend at the time, who was also in drama school with us,” Bassett told People. Besides, Vance has never noticed — or even remembered — Bassett.