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Their real-life chemistry naturally transfers to the screen. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the stars whose real-life relationship magic carries over onto the big screen.
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00:00 "You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything and you don't have to do anything."
00:05 Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the stars whose real-life
00:10 relationship magic carries over onto the big and small screens.
00:14 "You're doing it, hun. We both are. We're actualized!"
00:20 Number 10 - John Krasinski and Emily Blunt
00:24 "Christmas with the Krunts, come have a drink."
00:26 "That's gonna go wrong, really."
00:30 "That's why I like it. Living on the edge."
00:32 For years, fans have been falling in love with these two in their talk show appearances.
00:36 But it wasn't until their 2018 sci-fi horror hit A Quiet Place that we got to see that
00:41 romance transfer to the screen.
00:43 "I think it's the greatest collaboration I've ever had in my career. I've never seen her work.
00:48 And when you are actually in the room and she does what she does, it honestly, it changes the air in the room."
00:52 The result was great, though not nearly as funny as their real-life relationship.
00:57 Instead, we were treated to an intense and emotional story directed by Krasinski about
01:02 two parents trying to keep their family safe from an alien menace.
01:07 But their mutual passion is apparent.
01:09 A scene where their characters share a silent dance in the basement to Neil Young's Harvest Moon
01:14 gives off more sparks than a downed wire.
01:18 "Just like children sleeping, we could dream this night away."
01:27 Cast as dancers with vastly different styles who, inevitably, develop a very strong attraction to one another,
01:37 Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan met on the set of 2006's Step Up.
01:42 "Catch me."
01:44 "Oh!"
01:45 "Now what?"
01:47 Despite the dance a heavy romantic drama, their connection wasn't just physical.
01:52 Clearly the two had a lot of inspiration to draw upon for their more romantic scenes.
01:57 "There's a lot of things that I want now that I didn't used to.
02:02 I even catch myself every once in a while actually thinking I can have it."
02:08 Their chemistry was so explosive it launched a franchise and gave both of them careers.
02:14 It also made them tabloid fodder because they started dating after meeting on the set.
02:19 They married in 2009 and though they've since divorced, there's no denying these two were electric together.
02:26 "I can't do this right now. This is everything that I've been working for."
02:29 "I know and I'm sorry. I just wanted you to be able to do this the way you imagined it."
02:34 8. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan
02:38 Having dated since 2007, writer and actress Zoe Kazan wrote the 2012 film Ruby Sparks
02:44 for herself and husband Paul Dano to star in.
02:48 "I don't need anyone else."
02:50 "That's a lot of pressure."
02:52 This rom-com is about an author, played by Dano, whose character comes to life.
02:58 Needless to say, they fall in love.
03:00 "What did you think the first time you saw me?"
03:04 "I thought you were the most beautiful girl I ever saw."
03:07 While both are terrific actors in their own right, it's hard not to see the softness and the care that they have for each other here.
03:14 Even if you didn't know they were together, they play out this odd and meta love story in such a believable way.
03:20 When you know that they're actually together, it gives it even more layers.
03:24 "I guess I was looking for you."
03:26 "It took me a while to find you."
03:30 7. Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz
03:34 These two incredible actors made their first film together over 30 years ago.
03:39 "You're a pig."
03:41 "And you're a ham."
03:43 Penelope Cruz's breakthrough role in Jamon Jamon saw her cast opposite Javier Bardem
03:49 in the film, which was a huge success.
03:52 It wasn't until they were reunited on the set of the 2008 movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona
03:58 that they began their relationship.
04:00 "I'm always looking for you in all the women."
04:03 "No, that's not true, Marilena."
04:05 Given the passion on display in that movie, it's not hard to see just how deep their connection really goes.
04:10 They've since had incredibly juicy parts, like a couple in Crisis in the 2018 drama,
04:16 Everybody Knows. Bardem and Cruz have been married since 2010.
04:22 "Well, the answer is of course. So here we are. There's nothing to think about."
04:27 6. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
04:31 "Let's pretend that this house is ours.
04:35 That you're my husband, and I'm your wife."
04:42 Even when their star vehicles didn't please the critics,
04:46 there was something incredibly magnetic about this former A-list Hollywood power couple.
04:51 Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman began their romance on the set of Days of Thunder,
04:55 a drama about a race car driver, and there's no denying the two steam up the screen.
05:00 "I wasn't ignoring you. I gave you a very thorough physical."
05:04 Their second movie, The Real Housewives of New York,
05:09 Their second movie, The Epic Far and Away, was mostly critically maligned,
05:16 but their work in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut is made all the more shocking
05:21 because of their real-life marriage.
05:23 As a husband and wife haunted by questions of intimacy and infidelity,
05:27 the two lend a haunting realism to an incredibly surreal story.
05:32 "Forever."
05:35 "Hmm, let's not use that word. It frightens me."
05:42 "It's not been easy lately, but we're coming together now, working as equals."
05:51 Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons married in 2022,
05:54 but their partnership was creative before it was romantic.
05:57 When the Fargo co-stars announced they were dating,
06:00 it suddenly made their pitch-perfect scenes together make that much more sense.
06:05 "Energy-wise, you know, I mean, you gotta admit, we were stuck in the mud.
06:10 Emotionally, I mean. And then now, we're flying."
06:13 Though they've only appeared on screen together twice,
06:16 both times made a lasting impact, and one even saw both of them doing career-best work.
06:22 As married couple Peggy and Ed Blomquist, on the anthology series' second season,
06:27 the two were simpatico from the start.
06:30 Their work and on-screen chemistry only deepened in the powerful 2021 western
06:36 The Power of the Dock, where the tension between them was palpable.
06:40 "I just...wanted to say how nice it is...not to be alone."
06:49 Number 4. Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell
06:52 When they met on the set of 1984's Swing Shift,
06:56 Kurt Russell was determined to be all business.
06:59 "It's great working with you. And I think you're the best lead man on the line.
07:04 And I just know you're a swell fella."
07:07 A chance date to the Playboy Club to work on a scene for the movie
07:11 led to a romance that's lasted over 40 years.
07:14 From the jump, they make falling in love on camera look so effortless.
07:19 "I wish it could be like this forever."
07:22 "Why not?"
07:25 They also played polar opposites in Overboard,
07:29 a romantic comedy where a handyman tricks a rich heiress into thinking they're married.
07:34 And it's charming because of the couple's magic.
07:37 Even as they fight and play up their screen personas to the nth degree,
07:41 there's something about their differences that just seem to fit so well together.
07:46 "My children are the spawn of hell and you're the devil. Oh, God."
07:52 "Baby, we like you."
08:01 3. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
08:05 To Have and Have Not was a wartime adventure movie
08:08 that didn't have critics falling over themselves.
08:11 It might have been forgotten if not for the blazing hot chemistry
08:14 between stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
08:18 "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?
08:20 You just put your lips together and blow."
08:24 [WHISTLES]
08:36 We can't ignore the whopping age difference.
08:39 The 44-year-old Bogart was by then an established leading man,
08:43 while the 19-year-old husky-voiced Bacall was just starting out at Warner Bros.
08:48 Together with his callous and cool persona and her sultry and commanding presence,
08:53 they were an unlikely yet perfect match.
08:57 "What'd you do that for?"
08:59 "Been wondering whether I'd like it."
09:01 "What's the decision?"
09:03 "I don't know yet."
09:05 They appeared together in film noirs like The Big Sleep and Key Largo,
09:09 further cementing the legend of Bogie and Bacall.
09:12 The two married in 1945 and remained together until his death in 1957.
09:18 "I like that. I'd like more."
09:23 "That's even better."
09:30 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith starred two of Hollywood's hottest stars
09:38 as two married assassins hired to kill each other.
09:42 "You still alive, baby?"
09:44 Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt famously began their widely publicized romance,
09:49 dubbed Brangelina, on the set of the movie.
09:52 Sizzling sexual tension is not all that's on offer.
09:55 It's made that much more suspenseful by the way they spend the movie
09:59 drinking each other in with their eyes.
10:01 You kind of start to feel like you're intruding after a while.
10:05 "You think this story's gonna have a happy ending?"
10:07 "Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet."
10:10 Shockingly, the two only starred in one more movie together,
10:13 2015's Forgettable by The Sea,
10:16 which was released shortly before their relationship dissolved
10:19 in accusations and acrimony.
10:22 "Can we get out of here? Can we get out of here? Can we just go? Let's just go."
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10:43 Number 1. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
10:47 Plenty of Hollywood co-stars fell in love on the set of a movie.
10:50 Case in point, most of this list.
10:53 But few burned up the screen quite like Liz and Dick.
10:56 "I will never be free of you."
11:00 Rumour and scandal followed them from the moment the two married stars fell in love
11:04 and lost on the set of the disastrous epic Cleopatra.
11:08 Their volatility on screen was matched only by the drama of their real, highly publicised marriage.
11:15 "Come, come, you waspy faith, you are too angry."
11:18 "If I be waspish, best beware my sting."
11:22 "My remedy then is to pluck it out."
11:25 "Ha, aye, if the fool could find where it lies."
11:28 They were tearing up the scenery, and each other, in acclaimed dramas like
11:32 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
11:34 or in one of their less remembered projects, They Were Always Thrilling to Watch.
11:39 "You are not man enough, you haven't the guts."
11:43 "Total war?"
11:45 "Total!"
11:47 Which of these Hollywood co-star couples is your favourite?
11:50 Let us know in the comments.
11:52 "This is better than anything."
11:54 "This place, the music, dancing with you."
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