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Some friendships are just meant for the big screen! Join us as we count down our picks for the movie stars who had history long before they ever shared the screen together! Our countdown includes iconic duos like Ben Affleck & Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio & Tobey Maguire, Drew Barrymore & Cameron Diaz, and more! Did any of these pre-fame friendships surprise you?
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00:00And you like the, like the cookies and milk of actors.
00:03Thanks Cookie Monster.
00:04That's very nice coming from you.
00:06Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:07And today we're counting down our picks for the movie stars who had history before they ever shared the screen
00:12together.
00:13The relationship we have, the trust we have for each other is tremendous.
00:18Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman.
00:20Flirting.
00:21Years before they made their way from Australia to Hollywood,
00:25Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts were high school pals.
00:28All of us who knew each other in Sydney, Australia are now somehow working in this industry.
00:34You realize how small the world is because, you know, we all know each other.
00:40We've all grown up together.
00:41Their professional paths crossed on the stage before they both appeared in this little scene indie flick from Down Under.
00:47Starring Noah Taylor and Tandaway Newton,
00:50flirting sees the besties in supporting roles about boarding school romances.
00:54Though they share only a few scenes together, it's a look at two young actors on their way to stardom.
01:00We hung out in all of the same places.
01:02We dreamed the same dreams.
01:05Pretty much laying the roadmap to where we are now here in Los Angeles,
01:09decades deep into our friendship.
01:12Unfortunately, their longtime friendship hasn't generated many more collaborations on screen.
01:17But their decades-long relationship is still going strong, even after they both broke into the business.
01:23That's a decades-long friendship, and, you know, we're talking more than 30 years now,
01:29and history is binding, and it is so meaningful.
01:34Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt.
01:36Merrily we roll along.
01:37But we met at a bat mitzvah, this was before cell phones, so we didn't have any way to, like,
01:42stay in touch.
01:42He joined my school in ninth grade, and we instantly became best friends.
01:46So we're cheating on this one a little bit.
01:49Merrily we roll along hasn't come out yet, and if all goes according to plan, it won't for a while.
01:55In 2019, Richard Linklater began a 20-year production on an ambitious adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily we
02:02roll along.
02:03Stage and screen stars Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt have been cast as two lifelong friends
02:08whose relationship erodes over years of creative disappointments and compromises.
02:13And my best friend Beanie Feldstein and I, we've been best friends.
02:15She's an actress as well.
02:16You probably know her from Lady Bird and Booksmart.
02:18Of course, yeah.
02:18We've been best friends since we were, like, 14 years old, and we got cast together.
02:22So if anything, it's just a reason for us to keep getting to hang out.
02:25Their real-life friendship already gives the story an extra meta-textual component
02:29that's sure to make the eventual release all the more juicy and potentially heartbreaking.
02:35Who knows if we'll even still all be here in 20 years, but I think we're going to take it
02:39one sequence at a time,
02:40and I get to do it with my best friend Beanie Feldstein as well, so very excited about that.
02:44Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
02:46There he is.
02:47Do you think our love affair has enough punch in it?
02:51Hmm?
02:51Our love affair.
02:53Oh, well, now that you mention it, Jimmy.
02:56Because I got a new arrangement on it.
02:57Oh.
02:58Though they played a couple in many musicals and the highly influential MGM PR department
03:03pushed them as a duo, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney were not a couple.
03:08Their deep friendship began as children at the studio.
03:11Good morning.
03:13It's a lovely morning.
03:14Good morning.
03:15What a wonderful day.
03:17We danced the whole night through.
03:20Good morning.
03:21More than anyone, they knew the intense pressure and irresponsible expectations put on child
03:27stars in a Hollywood that was way less kind to its young talent than it is legally required now.
03:32Starring in several movies together, they brought their real-life chemistry to an impressive 10-movie run,
03:38which includes Babes in Arms and several of Rooney's Andy Hardy movies.
03:43A bit of rain that's never gonna hurt you, so wait and the skies will be blue.
03:50Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds.
03:53These old broads.
03:54Back when the studios nurtured talent from childhood, movie stars Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds were good friends as teenagers
04:02at MGM.
04:03Well, Elizabeth and I went to school together at MGM Studios.
04:06I was 17, she was 17, and then through the years, I met Eddie Fisher and married Eddie, and we
04:13were young and fell in love, and he was really cute.
04:16Famously, Reynolds' husband, Eddie Fisher, left her for the recently widowed Taylor.
04:21After a years-long rift, the two women made up after Taylor moved on to other husbands.
04:26All of that conflict actually came to life in these old broads.
04:30I don't want to worry about you around my husband, Bill.
04:34Please.
04:35I spend most of my time in bed.
04:36Well, from what I understand, you can do quite a lot of damage in bed.
04:42The 2001 comedy has them playing facsimiles of themselves.
04:46Using their contentious past as a jumping-off point for their characters,
04:50the movie is a treat for classic movie lovers who know their history.
04:54The barrel.
04:55The most brilliant, wonderful, ruthless, boy-crazy agent who ever lived.
05:00We'll see you in the next life.
05:01That's it, oh, right there.
05:02Unless I see you first.
05:05Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez, Princess Protection Program.
05:09Chasing down the dream, we're one and the same.
05:14Hey, hey, hey.
05:16Some childhood friends meet in school.
05:18Some meet when they're on the set of a kid's show.
05:21Before they were Disney pictures, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato met when they were part of the ensemble of children
05:26on Barney and Friends.
05:28Their friendship continued into their time as Disney Channel stars.
05:32And this is my best friend in the entire world.
05:34This isn't my best friend.
05:36Ever since we were seven years old.
05:37In 2009, the pair made Princess Protection Program, which put their combined star power to good use.
05:44The highly successful TV movie drew major ratings.
05:47While their friendship seems to have cooled in the years since, fans will always remember what it was like when
05:53the two of the biggest child stars were besties.
05:56I can't believe you would do this for me.
05:59It's what princesses do.
06:02They do for each other.
06:04You are truly a princess now, Carter Mason.
06:06Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler
06:08Dr. T and the women
06:10She drowned because of a broken heart.
06:13Really?
06:14Yeah.
06:14And she appears to couples who hang out around the lake who are really in love.
06:18And she either cries for help or she just cries this really sad, mournful cry.
06:24The daughters of Goldie Hawn and Steven Tyler have been good friends since they attended the same high school.
06:31Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler made major waves when they locked lips in the 2000 Robert Altman film Dr. T
06:37and the women.
06:38Hudson plays a bride-to-be still in love with her friend from college played by Tyler.
06:43Whatever connection they have clearly translates to the screen.
06:47Years later, Hudson admitted they both have regrets about not making their kiss even more passionate than it was.
06:53Maybe someday they'll make another movie and they'll get a second chance.
06:57So Poop and I, I call her Shpoop.
06:59Shpoop.
07:00Poopy Shpoops.
07:01Cute.
07:02We, to this day, are like, why didn't we go for it more with our making out?
07:07Like, she has the softest lips of them all.
07:10Gail Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.
07:13Y tu mama también.
07:15This classic coming-of-age story about two friends from different social classes is intense,
07:20with erotically and emotionally charged scenes that would be challenging for any actors.
07:32In Y tu mama también, they experience a road trip that changes their lives and relationship.
07:38But Gail Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna were not just co-stars.
07:43They've been friends since they were literal babies,
07:45as their mothers were friends around the time they were born.
07:48How long have you guys known each other?
07:50Oof, like, um, 15 years, no?
07:53Since we were born, basically.
07:55Since we were born.
07:57Their natural closeness and chemistry clearly informs the performances.
08:01Even years later, the two are still friends and collaborators,
08:05supporting socially conscious storytelling.
08:07We're brothers, you know?
08:09We are, like, life, life has been always with him for me.
08:12Yeah, yeah.
08:13He had a very rough first year of his life because I wasn't around.
08:18And then, and then I came to, you know, to make things better.
08:22Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz.
08:24Charlie's Angels.
08:26Long before they were kicking butt in tight bodysuits,
08:29two of Hollywood's favorite 90s bombshells met as teenagers
08:32on the outskirts of the entertainment industry.
08:35I don't know, when your best friend, when you get to hang out with your best friend,
08:38life is good.
08:38I know.
08:39Everything makes sense.
08:41Drew Barrymore remembers first meeting Cameron Diaz when Diaz was a model.
08:45Barrymore was past her fame as a child star
08:48working at a coffee shop when her career slowed down.
08:51Both, like, LA kids, you know?
08:52I worked in a coffee house.
08:54She was a model.
08:55And I, like, served her coffee.
08:58And we had, like, mutual friends.
08:59And we just knew each other from around town.
09:02And I will say this about her.
09:04She was always kind.
09:05They both built incredible and iconic careers throughout the 90s
09:09before coming together with Lucy Liu to bring Charlie's Angels to the big screen.
09:13They've celebrated each other for many years.
09:16And their friendship is still going strong nearly several decades later.
09:20Knowing you from 14 and 16,
09:23if anyone needs to, like, be broken out of somewhere in the middle of the night
09:26in a very upsettingly remote location, this is your girl.
09:30Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire.
09:33The Great Gatsby.
09:34You can't repeat the past.
09:37You can't repeat the past?
09:40No.
09:42Why, of course you can.
09:44Before they starred in the big screen adaptation of a literary classic,
09:48these two actors were friends for almost 20 years.
09:52Tobey Maguire drew on his real-life dynamic with Leonardo DiCaprio
09:56to infuse his character's idolizing of Jay Gatsby.
09:59Coming up as actors in the late 80s and early 90s,
10:02DiCaprio and Maguire actually made several films together.
10:06On a personal level, I have great affection for Leo.
10:09We're very good friends, so that certainly helps when you're playing scenes.
10:14Gatsby, 1993's This Boy's Life, and Dawn's Plume,
10:19a movie they've literally filed legal action against to keep out of circulation.
10:23I have enough to cut something over 70 minutes, or I don't remember what, 80 minutes.
10:28There's no way that that can be a feature film.
10:30It's always intended to be a short.
10:32While their careers might not have looked the same,
10:34DiCaprio and Maguire have maintained a friendship for decades now.
10:39Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting
10:42You know what the best part of my day is?
10:45It's for about 10 seconds from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door.
10:49Because I think maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there.
10:53This duo's rise to fame is what Hollywood dreams are made of.
10:57High school pals Ben Affleck and Matt Damon both found their way to the West Coast from Boston.
11:01I was new to the neighborhood and my mom brought me around because she knew your mom.
11:07She went over to say hi and you were eight and Casey would have been five.
11:11But we knew each other.
11:12We'd see each other at the park all the time.
11:14And then in high school we became really close.
11:17Although they booked roles, it was their script for Good Will Hunting that catapulted them to worldwide attention.
11:23Damon starred while Affleck played a supporting role.
11:26Is that your thing? You come into a bar, you read some obscure passage and then pretend you pawn it
11:30off as your own idea just to impress some girls?
11:34Embarrass my friend?
11:35The success of the film landed them the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and ushered in a new era
11:41of superstardom for both of them.
11:43They still work together often, bringing their long history into projects both on and off the screen.
11:49What was our friendship like in our Good Will Hunting era versus now?
11:53Much stronger.
11:56Anchored, real, authentic.
11:58Why?
11:59Did any of these pre-fame friendships surprise you?
12:02Tell us in the comments.
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