Top 10 Surprising Times Celebrities Worked with Their Significant Other
Together at last... on screen. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most surprising, effective, and/or downright head-scratching celebrity couple collabs (even if the pair has since broken up).
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00:00He's a hero, guys.
00:01Done.
00:02Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most surprising,
00:06effective, and or downright head-scratching celebrity couple collabs,
00:10even if the pair has since broken up.
00:12It's really two lives coming together and trying to be one, and there's a lot of adjustments to make.
00:2010. Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
00:23Bridesmaids
00:25Kristen Wiig's plane freakout is a highlight of the raucous 2011 comedy,
00:30but Breakout star Melissa McCarthy's exchanges with the undercover air marshal are just as hilarious.
00:36That's great. I'm not an air marshal. I'm gonna take a nap.
00:39Awesome. I'll take the first watch.
00:43I'm not an air marshal. You don't need to take a watch.
00:47Okay. I've got the first watch.
00:51As the inquisitive Megan needles Falcone's character about his lack of luggage
00:55and the possibility of him carrying a gun, it feels as flirtatious as it does threatening.
01:00Once people found out it was her real-life husband, Ben Falcone, it was a pleasant surprise.
01:05Uh-oh. What's that?
01:09I gotta get back to my seat. Could you just move your leg, please? I gotta go.
01:13Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Somebody found a souvenir.
01:17They play off each other so well. The pair would eventually do many projects together,
01:22with Falcone often directing and them sometimes co-writing.
01:25This is this wedge, and this one was this wedge.
01:29On anything, we never would have made the day with two cameras.
01:31No. I think we needed every single camera and every trick in the book.
01:35Number nine, Christine Taylor and Ben Stiller.
01:38Dodgeball, a true underdog story.
01:40If you didn't know, Dodgeball stars Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor were spouses.
01:45You'd definitely never guess from their scenes in the movie.
01:48Surprise!
01:50Wait. Uh, what? What are you doing here? How do you know where I live?
01:58It's called the Freedom of Information Act, Kate.
02:00The two got married in 2000 and have appeared alongside each other in a few movies since.
02:05Although they play love interests in Zoolander,
02:07there's no love lost between the couple's characters in Dodgeball.
02:10We should mate.
02:12What?
02:13Date. I said we should date sometime, you know, socially.
02:17Go out and kick it.
02:19Are you okay?
02:21I'm fine. I just, uh, threw up in my mouth a little bit.
02:24Stiller portrays the repugnant gym owner, and Taylor plays an attorney.
02:29Her disgust and contempt in their scenes together is a show of some truly award-worthy acting.
02:35Has a real-life couple ever looked this hilariously uncomfortable on screen?
02:39To be continued.
02:41You don't get to touch me. Ever.
02:44Number 8. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
02:47Julie.
02:48I don't think this is the best time to be drawing attention to ourselves.
02:53She had been dominating the charts for years.
02:55He could basically star in any movie he wanted.
02:58So imagine everyone's shock and awe at the disaster that was Julie.
03:02It's turkey time.
03:05Huh?
03:08Gobble, gobble.
03:10Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez may have been the early 2000s It couple,
03:14but even their combined star power couldn't save them here.
03:18Julie is a woefully inept rom-com that has managed to offend virtually anyone with a modicum of taste.
03:24It was so bad that the next flick they made together, Jersey Girl,
03:28had the team actually giving away the twist that Lopez's character passes away early on.
03:34I'm sorry, honey.
03:35I should be more sensitive.
03:36I'm sorry.
03:37I should be more sensitive, honey. I know.
03:40I know.
03:41Number 7, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
03:44Famous.
03:45I need to, like, brace you.
03:47Kanye is going to shoot a music video for the song Famous.
03:52The people that the video's about, it's like Amber, Rose, Ray J, Chris Brown, Rihanna, Taylor Swift.
04:02In 2016, the notorious rapper and his reality star now ex tried to make a statement about fame
04:08and the entertainment industry.
04:10The music video to Kanye West's single Famous turned more than a few heads.
04:14I think she got freaked out by the reaction and all of a sudden she flipped.
04:19More of a problematic performance art piece than a traditional video,
04:23Kim and Kanye demonstrated their shared skill for grabbing headlines with a less traditional way of collaborating.
04:29Though Kardashian herself didn't appear, she approved her wax figure's appearance.
04:33It also got the attention of Taylor Swift, whose name dropped in the song
04:37and who's among the celebrities depicted lying in bed with the couple.
04:40I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative.
04:44Subsequent allegations only added fuel to the fire.
04:47West and Kardashian are controversial figures all on their own, so it's perhaps no surprise
04:52their collaboration and Kim's subsequent support of Kanye drew so much attention.
04:58Number 6, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
05:01Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
05:03I said I warn you.
05:04I'm impressed.
05:05I warned you not to go too far.
05:06I'm just beginning.
05:09The classic Hollywood power couple had made movies together before,
05:13but they were mostly crowd-pleasers that usually didn't have much in the way of major critical acclaim.
05:18So when news broke that they wanted to bring Edward Albee's controversial play to the screen,
05:23they were met with shock and skepticism.
05:25No, there are limits.
05:28I mean, a man can put up with only so much without he descends a rung or two
05:31on the old evolutionary ladder which is up your line.
05:34Few were convinced Taylor had the chops to play the venomous Martha,
05:37a middle-aged woman who engages in a vicious psychological war game with her husband George.
05:43The naysayers were proved wrong when the film premiered.
05:46It's largely considered her greatest performance.
05:49Watching the two, whose real-life tempestuous marriage was the talk of the industry,
05:53spar in such vicious and vulgar scenes is pretty thrilling.
05:57Is that a threat, George, huh?
05:59That's a threat, Martha.
06:00You're gonna get it, baby.
06:02Be careful, Martha. I'll rip you to pieces.
06:05You are not man enough. You haven't the guts.
06:09Total war.
06:10Number 5. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Eyes wide shut.
06:14This A-list couple made three movies together.
06:17Their least mainstream and most provocative collaboration
06:20has to be this erotic thriller by master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.
06:24It's just, uh, just these weird things.
06:31What was it?
06:37So weird.
06:38In it, Cruise plays Bill, a young and ambitious doctor
06:42who becomes targeted by an underground society of the rich and powerful.
06:46Kidman portrays his wife,
06:48whose revelation that she's fantasized about another man completely undoes Bill.
06:53It was weird, because at the same time,
06:57you were dearer to me than ever.
07:00Eyes Wide Shut probes questions about marriage, intimacy, and relationships
07:04that most married couples would prefer to leave alone.
07:07The fact that such a high-profile pairing would want to open themselves up to those questions
07:12and play them out on screen is pretty bold.
07:15The important thing is...
07:19we're awake now.
07:20Number 4. Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson.
07:23Newlyweds. Nick and Jessica.
07:25You always hear, like, the first year of marriage is, you know, toughest,
07:28and I think especially for people who haven't lived together prior to getting married,
07:33you know, you have to go through all those adjustments.
07:35Back in 2003, the idea of celebrities doing reality television
07:39was still new enough to be borderline scandalous.
07:42MTV's newlyweds, Nick and Jessica,
07:45showed the 98-degrees frontman and the pop singer
07:48in all of their ostentatious newlywedded bliss.
07:51Despite their fame, they were shockingly candid and kind of mundane.
07:55Is this chicken what I have, or is this fish?
07:59I know it's tuna, but it says chicken...
08:03by the C.
08:04From Simpson's confusion about canned tuna
08:07to their petty arguments about finances and decorating,
08:10there was an element of ordinariness that made them easy to relate to.
08:14Though their marriage only lasted a few years,
08:16the show made them even bigger stars than they already were.
08:20This is a moment.
08:23Give me a kiss.
08:30Number 3. John Krasinski and Emily Blunt.
08:32A quiet place.
08:34One thing this beloved couple shares is a flair for comedy.
08:37It wasn't surprising that after roughly a decade together,
08:40they'd finally appear in the same project.
08:42What was surprising is that their debut collaboration
08:45turned out to be a horror movie.
08:47I was very nervous about it, to be honest. I think we both were.
08:49Before we started shooting, she said,
08:50are you nervous? And I said, I'm terrified.
08:52And she said, oh good, me too.
08:53The two play parents living in a post-apocalyptic world,
08:56terrorized by sound-sensitive alien monsters.
08:59Krasinski ended up taking the director's chair
09:01and co-writing the script after signing on,
09:04with Blunt ultimately joining the cast.
09:06Just like children sleeping,
09:10we could dream this night away.
09:15As good as these two are on screen,
09:17there's no denying their very real connection.
09:19A Quiet Place turned out to be a huge hit.
09:22The pair would return to work on the sequel.
09:25It sounds really sappy, but it's true.
09:27I think it's the greatest collaboration I've ever had in my career.
09:29Number 2. Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn.
09:32Folklore.
09:33Joe plays piano beautifully and he's always just playing
09:36and making things up and kind of creating things.
09:39As the first of Swift's pandemic albums,
09:42when Folklore dropped in 2020, it made a splash.
09:45Soon, fans noticed an unfamiliar name in the credits.
09:49Someone named William Bowery was among the named writers
09:53of two of the album's most popular songs,
09:55Betty and the heartbreaking duet Exile.
09:58Swifties immediately speculated, as they are wont to do.
10:02That would have gone on forever.
10:03What?
10:04Who?
10:05When?
10:06So...
10:07Swift later confirmed fan speculation that Bowery was a pseudonym
10:11for her then-partner, English actor Joe Alwyn.
10:14She says she overheard him singing the chorus of Betty from The Other Room
10:18and the rest was history.
10:20Alwyn later received co-producing credits on a number of other tracks as well.
10:24You heard the rumors from Inez
10:27You can't believe a word she says
10:30But this time it was true
10:32Interestingly, the Bowery name would also be credited on songs
10:36from Swift's subsequent albums Evermore and Midnights.
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10:561. Beyoncé and Jay-Z
10:58Lemonade
10:59What is it about you
11:04That I can't erase, baby
11:10When footage from a hotel elevator showed Beyoncé's sister Solange
11:14attacking Jay-Z, gossip was rampant.
11:17Although the connection wasn't confirmed,
11:19Jay-Z later admitted to cheating on Beyoncé.
11:21You can be in love with someone, you can love someone
11:24and if you haven't experienced love and you don't understand it
11:27and you don't have the tools to move forward
11:29then you're going to have complications, period.
11:32And you can either address it
11:34or you can pretend until it blows up at some point.
11:37Bey usually doesn't let us get too involved in her personal life
11:40but 2016's Lemonade was a soul-bearing project
11:43notably taking us through this journey.
11:46Bey and Jay performed their reunion in a touching scene set to sandcastles.
11:51We also see home video footage of them
11:53during the all-night redemption section.
11:55That he's in the film at all was surprising.
11:58Considering his indiscretions
12:00fuel so much of her painful reflections on relationships and trauma.
12:03But watching them represent their healing process on screen
12:06was a show of unexpected vulnerability
12:08from two industry giants
12:10who sometimes seem superhuman.
12:13Stars
12:15Stars
12:17Don't walk away
12:20Who's your favourite celebrity power couple?
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