He knew it was coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier for Ryan Phillippe to see ex-wife Reese Withersoon with her new man.

“It’s bizarre,” the actor told USA Today Wednesday, adding that he avoids looking at photos of Witherspoon and boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal.

“There’s plenty of times when I say, ‘What a strange situation I’ve found myself in,’ ” he said. “But at a certain point you know it’s going to happen, so you are prepared.”

As for Phillippe’s own love life, the actor - who’s been linked to actress Abbie Cornish - remained reticent. “It’s just something I would really rather not address,” he told the paper. “It has to be a ‘no comment.’ ”

He also insists that despite a painful divorce, he isn’t ruling out a second marriage.

“I can see doing it again, yeah,” he said. “And I can certainly see possibly having children again. I’m pretty young, and there are many beautiful things about that idea of marriage and family. It just doesn’t always work out perfect for everybody.”

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the new thriller Zodiac, but one of his favorite roles is doting uncle to neice Ramona.

“It’s great, wonderful,” the actor, 26, told PEOPLE. Ramona, who was born in October to Gyllenhaal’s big sister Maggie and actor Peter Sarsgaard, is “incredible.”

“Of course, I’ve brought over presents,” he said Wednesday at the Cinema Society and GQ New York City screening of Zodiac. “She’s not talking yet, but she looks amazing. I revel in her growth. It’s an amazing process to watch - and to watch my sister also.”

In Zodiac, Gyllenhaal plays Robert Graysmith, the San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist obsessed with the case of the Zodiac killer who terrorized the Bay Area starting in the late ’60s. The actor said he picked up some of that passion himself.

“I think it was something natural when you’re shooting for 110 days, being immersed in a case where there is so much information and every scene consists of making sure that the dialogue is so detailed,” he said.

Still: “I wouldn’t say I find a lot of similarities with my character. Obsession has many manifestations. I always looked at it like he loves puzzles. He’s like a kid in a candy store. It’s an odd candy store, obviously. But for him, there was a joy in every clue that he got.”