Famous Co-Stars Who Really Enjoyed Kissing Each Other
Actors are used to faking their way through steamy situations, but sometimes, you don't have to fake it. With these co-stars, sparks were flying on camera and off the set.
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00:00 Actors are used to faking their way through steamy situations, but sometimes you don't
00:05 have to fake it.
00:06 With these co-stars, sparks were flying on camera and off the set.
00:10 In the 1980s, NBC was known for family-friendly hits like "The Cosby Show," "Gimme a Break,"
00:16 and "Silver Spoons," and thanks to breakout star Michael J. Fox, "Family Ties" was ranked
00:20 high among the network's top shows.
00:23 The Canadian-born actor played charming overachiever Alex P. Keaton, the oddball offspring of his
00:28 ex-hippie parents, Stephen and Elise.
00:31 Alex's conservative morals never aligned with his liberal New England family, or the many
00:35 women he dated in college.
00:37 Among the string of actors to play Fox's on-screen love interests in the series, Tracy Pollan's
00:42 several-season stint on the show proved to be life-changing.
00:46 As Ellen Reed, Pollan's character was initially turned off by Alex.
00:50 However, in one iconic scene, the actors kissed while dancing to Billy Vera's bittersweet
00:55 song "At This Moment."
00:56 The song became a number one hit, and audiences wondered what would become of the obvious
01:00 chemistry between Pollan and Fox.
01:03 "Uh, we, uh, we danced.
01:06 And kissed."
01:07 At the time, Pollan was in a relationship with Kevin Bacon, while Fox was tied to Facts
01:12 of Life star Nancy McKeon.
01:14 At the time, his career was also going off the charts, thanks to the hit movies Back
01:18 to the Future and Teen Wolf.
01:20 The actors reconnected in the gritty drama Bright Lights, Big City, and married a year
01:24 later in 1988.
01:25 They had their first child in 1989, and Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease a few
01:31 years later.
01:32 Pollan has been by Fox's side through his struggles with the disease, and the couple
01:36 has welcomed three more children throughout their marriage.
01:39 Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kojo are strong contenders for the title of Hollywood's Most
01:45 Dedicated Couple.
01:46 Married for over 15 years, the powerful twosome has been able to maintain a family, successful
01:51 careers, and a strong partnership under the stressful glare of fame.
01:55 They met on the set of Showtime's early 2000s series Soul Food, where, for five seasons,
02:01 they played on-again, off-again couple Terry Joseph and Damon Carter.
02:05 Though their characters weren't always certain they should be together, their off-screen
02:08 romance was solid.
02:10 According to Essence, when Kojo suggested they move in together, Parker knew he was
02:15 the guy for her.
02:16 They married in 2005 and quickly welcomed a son and daughter.
02:19 In 2015, the couple briefly hosted a daytime talk show, where they interviewed several
02:24 celebs, including Zendaya and Regina Hall.
02:27 Like so many Hollywood couples, rumors of marital troubles swirled in 2020 over comments
02:32 Parker made about missing the single life.
02:34 However, Parker was just sharing an honest moment with fans, and the couple seems to
02:38 be no less solid for it.
02:40 Both Kit Harington and Rose Leslie landed the biggest roles of their careers to date
02:45 when they were cast on HBO's blockbuster fantasy epic Game of Thrones.
02:49 Harington played Jon Snow, the illegitimate child of the royal house Stark.
02:53 Leslie played Ygritte, one of the free folk who lived beyond the wall Jon defends as a
02:58 member of the Night's Watch.
02:59 The two found each other, and it wasn't long before romance and a selection of steamy scenes
03:04 arose among the near-constant war, darkness, ice, and fire the show is famous for.
03:09 Jon and Ygritte meet when Jon and some rangers of the Night's Watch take her prisoner.
03:13 Their love blooms over the course of the next season, but their relationship comes to a
03:17 permanent end when Ygritte is killed in season four.
03:20 "You're now nothing, Jon Snow."
03:25 Meanwhile, Harington and Leslie began seeing each other off-screen.
03:29 According to People, they confirmed the rumors they were dating with a red carpet arrival
03:33 at an English awards ceremony in 2016, about three years after their initial on-screen
03:38 coupling aired.
03:39 In 2017, Harington proposed, and the former kissing co-workers were married the following
03:44 year.
03:45 They now have two children together.
03:47 Over the original seven-season run of the WBCW small-town dramedy Gilmore Girls, Alexis
03:53 Bledel's character Rory experiences three formative romances.
03:57 The second of these relationships was with Jess Marino, the rebellious new kid in town
04:01 played by Milo Ventimiglia.
04:03 As it turned out, of the three actors who played her love interests throughout the series,
04:08 Ventimiglia would be the only one that Bledel would publicly date.
04:12 While Rory and Jess' time together was passionate, it was also spotty.
04:15 However, this was not the case for the real relationship that bloomed between the young
04:20 actors.
04:21 According to Us Weekly, the coupling began in 2002, right around the time that Ventimiglia
04:25 joined the cast of Gilmore Girls.
04:27 However, the duo ultimately split in 2006, not long after Ventimiglia left the show.
04:33 Years before the Deadpool movies made him a beloved action hero and comic star, Ryan
04:37 Reynolds' big superhero turn was supposed to be Green Lantern.
04:41 A big-screen jaunt for the interstellar DC Comics character, Green Lantern didn't do
04:45 particularly well in theaters when it came out in summer 2011.
04:49 The film earned dismal critical reviews and ultimately kept Reynolds from ascending to
04:54 the A-list for a few more years.
04:55 The silver lining to this botched superhero movie's production was that Reynolds met his
05:00 future wife, Blake Lively, on set.
05:03 In the midst of a star-making turn on the popular teen-soap Gossip Girl, Lively landed
05:07 the role of Carol Farris, the hero's love interest.
05:10 Their scenes together, which included plenty of kissing, were surprisingly intimate for
05:14 an effects-heavy comic book movie.
05:16 For this reason, it's not too shocking that these two actors later connected off the set.
05:20 According to Glamour, shortly after filming, Reynolds divorced Scarlett Johansson and Lively
05:25 broke up with her Gossip Girl co-star, Penn Badgley.
05:29 In late 2011, photographers spotted Reynolds and Lively together, and they married in September
05:34 of the following year.
05:35 They now share four children.
05:36 Dreamhouse was a relatively minor movie that starred two major actors.
05:41 The abysmally reviewed horror flick followed a couple who purchase a beautiful home only
05:45 to find out it's a murder house.
05:47 The film only had a middling performance at the box office, but it did feature Daniel
05:51 Craig, best known for portraying James Bond, and Rachel Weisz of the Mummy franchise in
05:56 its leading roles.
05:57 Craig and Weisz shot their scenes as a married couple in 2010, and the real attraction was
06:02 palpable in their work.
06:04 As co-star Rachel Fox told Us Weekly,
06:06 "They play husband and wife, so any time that the camera was rolling you felt that spark."
06:11 According to Express, both actors denied media speculation that they were in a relationship.
06:16 However, right around that time, Craig ended his relationship with Satsuki Mitchell, and
06:21 TMZ reported that Weisz had broken things off with her fiancé, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.
06:26 In mid-2011, Craig and Weisz got married in New York.
06:30 They had their first child together in 2018.
06:33 When it comes to on-set romances, few are as high-profile or combative as Brad Pitt
06:38 and Angelina Jolie's.
06:40 The pair reportedly fell for each other while filming the action romance Mr. & Mrs. Smith
06:44 in 2004.
06:46 At the time, Pitt was famously married to Jennifer Aniston, but that didn't seem to
06:50 stop the brand Jelena juggernaut from picking up speed.
06:53 By 2005, Aniston and Pitt were divorced.
06:56 A year later, Jolie announced that she was pregnant with Pitt's child, and the actor
07:01 was already en route to becoming the adopted father of Jolie's children, Maddox and Zahara.
07:06 Their daughter Shiloh was born in 2006, they adopted their son Pax in 2007, and twins Knox
07:13 and Vivian followed in 2008.
07:15 "You think this story's gonna have a happy ending?"
07:17 "Happy endings are stories that haven't finished yet."
07:20 After seven years together, Pitt and Jolie decided to marry in 2014, but the happiness
07:25 soon came to an end.
07:27 Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, citing "irreconcilable differences."
07:31 Tabloid coverage suggested ugly allegations of verbal and physical abuse by Pitt against
07:37 one of the children, though the accusations were ultimately cleared by the FBI.
07:41 Their divorce was finalized in 2019, but acrimony continued to brew between Pitt and Jolie,
07:47 who were locked in a bruising custody battle between 2018 and 2021.
07:51 Dancing
07:52 Dancing brought actors Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan together when they co-starred
07:56 in 2006's Step Up.
07:59 In addition to helping the pair to establish themselves as stars, the film also served
08:03 as the introduction that led to their relationship and eventual marriage on July 11, 2009.
08:09 Their daughter Everly was born in 2013 and helped to inspire Tatum to write two children's
08:14 books, including the best-selling one-and-only Sparkella in 2021.
08:18 Sadly, the couple announced their separation in a joint statement to People in 2018, and
08:23 they divorced in November the following year.
08:26 In an interview with Vanity Fair in 2023, Tatum said the experience was difficult but
08:30 ultimately necessary, stating,
08:32 "Your life just turns on its axis.
08:35 This whole plan that you had literally just turns to sand and goes through your fingers,
08:39 and you're just like, 'Oh, s---, what now?'"
08:42 However, Tatum also credits the experience with forcing him to take a closer look at
08:46 his own well-being.
08:47 He explained that the process of the separation motivated him to work on himself in ways he
08:52 probably would not have otherwise.
08:54 Chances are you haven't seen the movie that brought Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes together.
08:59 Though it's critically acclaimed and received a 78 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the
09:04 2013 drama The Place Beyond the Pines wasn't a box office success, netting less than $1
09:10 million in its opening weekend on a $15 million budget.
09:14 This place in the movie history books is largely cemented by the fact that Gosling began a
09:19 longstanding relationship with Mendes while filming the movie.
09:23 In fact, the pair even had two children together, daughters Esmeralda and Amada.
09:27 As a couple, they have maintained a very low public profile.
09:31 As Mendes wrote to a fan on Instagram,
09:33 "My man and my kids are private."
09:35 Though they do not attend publicity or red carpet events together, they do support each
09:39 other through social media.
09:41 For example, in 2023, Mendes posted a pic of herself on Instagram wearing a shirt emblazoned
09:46 with Gosling as Ken from Barbie.
09:49 The romance between Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult lasted roughly the same amount
09:53 of time as their tenures in the X-Men movies.
09:55 Hoult first played Hank McCoy, also known as Beast, opposite Lawrence's Mystique in
10:01 2011's X-Men First Class.
10:03 Before long, reports began appearing in the press suggesting the pair had become an item.
10:07 They appeared to split briefly in 2013, but reunited in 2014 just in time to reprise their
10:13 mutant roles in X-Men Days of Future Past.
10:16 And though the rekindled romance flamed out for a second and final time in 2015, they
10:21 remained amicable both offscreen and on.
10:24 In the years since their separation, both Lawrence and Hoult have moved on to have children
10:28 with other partners.
10:29 Tom Holland and Zendaya worked overtime to keep their relationship under wraps since
10:34 filming began on Spider-Man Homecoming.
10:37 Reports surfaced that the actors were spending time together prior to the film's release
10:41 in 2017, and while sources declared that Holland and Zendaya were an item, the actors themselves
10:47 insisted that their relationship was platonic.
10:49 "I'm not obsessed with him, I'm just very observant."
10:53 Media coverage slowly told a different story, showing Holland and Zendaya attending events
10:58 together and celebrating each other's birthdays in cute social media posts.
11:03 And a photograph of the pair performing some PDA in 2021 killed the "Just Friends" storyline.
11:10 Holland and Zendaya eventually owned up to their relationship in individual interviews
11:14 in 2023.
11:15 As Holland said on the Smartless podcast,
11:17 "I'm lucky that I have someone like Zendaya in my life."
11:20 For her part, the actress praised her boyfriend's culinary skills in an interview with The Sun,
11:25 claiming that he's a competent cook while she's a bit clumsier in the kitchen.
11:29 The science fiction thriller series Manifest not only introduced actors Melissa Roxburgh
11:34 and J.R. Ramirez to primetime TV audiences, it also served as the launching pad for their
11:39 on-and-off romance.
11:41 The pair began dating while playing detectives and former fiancés, Michaela Stone and Jared
11:46 Vasquez, in the series, which aired for three seasons on NBC and a fourth and final season
11:51 on Netflix.
11:52 The pair managed to keep their relationship under wraps for much of the show's tenure
11:56 on NBC. Though Page Six printed an item in 2020, it quoted a source from the set who
12:01 alleged that Roxburgh and Ramirez had been dating for approximately six months.
12:05 However, shortly after Manifest debuted on Netflix in 2022, people showcased a slew of
12:11 pics from their respective Instagram accounts that showed them getting very cozy on what
12:16 appeared to be a vacation in Fiji. Their Manifest co-star, Josh Dallas, clearly approved of
12:21 their display, given the number of fire emojis he posted on the photos.
12:26 Though Adam Brody and Leighton Meester's relationship blossomed after co-starring in 2012's The
12:31 Oranges, the TV vets actually knew each other for several years prior to filming. Both starred
12:36 in series produced by Josh Schwartz, with Brody appearing on The O.C. and Meester co-starring
12:42 as Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl, and it was actually Schwartz who introduced them.
12:46 Through their producer, the pair met at Cantor's, the famed Los Angeles deli. He found Meester
12:51 attractive from the moment they met, but he was seeing someone else at the time. By 2013,
12:56 Brody was single, and after meeting again, the pair quickly became a couple. They were
13:00 married the following year and appeared together in the 2014 film Life Partners. Their daughter
13:06 was born in 2015, and they had a son in 2020.
13:09 In addition to their individual acting careers, the couple teamed up on screen again for an
13:14 episode of Meester's ABC series Single Parents and in the 2023 thriller Riverwild.
13:21 Telling someone that they smell like marijuana may not seem like a foundation for a lasting
13:25 romance, but according to GQ, that was the first thing Megan Fox said to her future fiancé,
13:31 Machine Gun Kelly, at a party in the late 2010s. However, it would be a few years before
13:36 the twin flames, as they've taken to describing each other, would officially get together
13:41 on the set of Midnight in the Switchgrass.
13:43 After sparking a relationship while filming the 2021 thriller, the couple got engaged
13:48 in early 2022. In a very on-brand display of affection, Glamour UK reports that the
13:54 pair each drank a small amount of the other's blood to commemorate their newfound commitment.
13:59 Their nuptials were ultimately put on hold until the following year to deal with relationship
14:04 problems. However, Kelly and Fox appear to be back together as of late 2023, though wedding
14:09 plans seem to remain on hold.
14:12 Long before they played married Soviet spies on the Americans, Keri Russell and Matthew
14:17 Reese had something of a meet-cute. As Reese explained on Watch What Happens Live with
14:21 Andy Cohen, the two attended the same kickball party, where Reese used the effects of liquid
14:27 courage to get her contact information. Unfortunately, she failed to return the drunken message he
14:31 left on her answering machine.
14:33 "Wow, she did not return the call."
14:35 "Nope."
14:36 However, about a decade later, Reese and Russell became an award-winning duo on-screen and
14:40 off thanks to their roles on the FX drama. The Welsh-born Reese, who most recently starred
14:45 in HBO's Perry Mason, and diplomat lead Russell started dating in 2014, shortly after her
14:51 separation from her husband Shane Deery. People broke the news that the couple was officially
14:56 together in 2015, and their son Sam was born in May 2016.
15:01 Russell and Reese haven't appeared together on-screen since The Americans Came to an End
15:05 in 2018, but both turned up separately in Elizabeth Banks' Cocaine Bear. Russell played
15:10 the film's heroine, while Reese was killed off while playing real-life drug smuggler
15:15 Andrew C. Thornton, who died while parachuting from a plane laden with cocaine.
15:20 Rumors began to surface in the press that Stranger Things co-stars Charlie Heaton and
15:24 Natalia Dyer were a couple back in 2016, when watchful fans began noticing them together
15:29 in social media posts and various paparazzi shots. However, it wasn't until 2019 that
15:35 Heaton and Dyer began to speak publicly about their relationship. Their early comments were
15:39 fairly coy. For example, while speaking about Heaton in an interview with Us Weekly, Dyer
15:44 joked,
15:45 "He's alright, I guess. He doesn't mess up our scenes too much."
15:48 By mid-2019, however, she spoke openly about working with her significant other. As she
15:54 explained to Refinery29,
15:55 "It's an interesting thing to work with somebody you go home with. It's always really fun."
16:00 Though their romance was public knowledge, both actors remained largely reluctant to
16:04 discuss the details. As Dyer explained to Cosmopolitan in 2022, the pair simply prefers
16:10 to keep elements of their personal lives out of the public eye to a greater degree than
16:14 certain other celebrity couples.
16:16 Rami Malek made as public a declaration of affection as one could when he announced his
16:21 appreciation for his Bohemian Rhapsody co-star, Lucy Boynton, in his acceptance speech for
16:26 the Best Actor award at the 2019 Oscars. The pair met in 2017 while starring as Queen frontman
16:33 Freddie Mercury and his girlfriend, Mary Austin, in the popular biopic. Shortly thereafter,
16:38 they were seen together at various public events, including the numerous award shows
16:42 that honored Malek's performance as Mercury. He made their relationship public at the 2019
16:47 Palm Springs International Film Festival, where he earned top acting honors for Bohemian
16:52 Rhapsody.
16:53 Malek addressed Boynton in his acceptance speech, saying,
16:56 "You have been my ally, my confidant. You are my love."
16:59 The couple remained together well into 2020, making appearances at high-profile events
17:04 like the Oscars and Golden Globes, and at the 2022 premiere of Malek's film No Time
17:09 to Die. However, their relationship must have come to a halt, for by the end of that year,
17:14 Malek has been spotted with several other actors, including his No Time to Die co-star,
17:19 Lea Seydoux.
17:20 Riverdale fans got giddy in 2018 when news broke that stars Camilla Mendes and Charles
17:26 Melton, who played residents Veronica and Reggie, respectively, appeared to be dating
17:30 behind the scenes of the series. While the pair began to perform public displays of affection
17:35 and attending events together, Mendes told LA Confidential in 2019 that she is cautious
17:40 about discussing too many details of her relationship with Melton. As she explained,
17:44 "It's like, yeah, even though I feel comfortable talking about some things, do I really want
17:49 to see it written over and over again? Sometimes it's not really worth it."
17:53 The couple appeared to split shortly before their one-year anniversary in 2019. However,
17:58 some photos of them together in 2020 did circulate through the media. Regardless of when it officially
18:03 happened, the relationship was permanently over by 2021.
18:06 In 2023, Mendes told the Going Mental podcast that she was in a new relationship, and by
18:11 her brief description of her new suitor, it seems things are already quite serious with
18:16 her new beau. As to who this new partner is, Mendes posted a photo of herself kissing actor
18:21 and musician Rudy Mancuso on Valentine's Day in 2023.
18:25 "I think it's a good thing that we're in a relationship. I think it's a good thing that we're in a relationship."