We've all heard about how on-screen kissing can be incredibly awkward, but sometimes it's
just the opposite. It can even lead to real-life romance! Keep watching to see which famous
co-stars really felt the heat when they locked lips while the cameras were rolling
Mila Kunis grew up on the small screen, as she started playing Jackie on That '70s Show
when she was just a teenager. For eight seasons, audiences enjoyed watching her overbearing,
mouthy character gripe at her dimwitted boyfriend Michael Kelso, played by Ashton Kutcher. But
what a lot of fans didn't realize at the time was that Kunis' on-screen kisses with Kutcher
were also her first kisses in real life. In 2001, she talked with People Magazine about
the moment that she realized she'd have to smooch Kutcher. As she put it,
"I was like, 'Oh, he's so cute, it's the Calvin Klein model!' Then I was like, 'I have to
kiss him?' I was so nervous and uncomfortable. I had the biggest crush on him."
Kutcher had no idea that he was Kunis' first kiss, but their on-screen chemistry made a
decades-long lasting impression. In 2011, she ended her relationship with Home Alone
star Macaulay Culkin, and that same year Kutcher separated from his wife Demi Moore. Soon thereafter,
Kunis and Kutcher started hanging out and hooking up, much like his character in No
Strings Attached and her character in Friends With Benefits.
"And if we would've just paid attention to how those movies turned out, we would know
that we can't go into a relationship this way."
"Yeah."
"And yet we did exactly as both those movies."
They ultimately discovered that they had a deep connection that proved to be undeniable.
They got married in 2015, and now they have two kids together.
From 2008 to 2014, HBO viewers were enamored with Sookie Stackhouse, as played by Anna
Paquin on the supernatural series True Blood. The show was a big hit, thus proving the eternal
appeal of vampires, werewolves, witches, and other mythical creatures. Paquin captured
the hearts of millions with her performance as Sookie, including that of her co-star Stephen
Moyer.
From the moment the two actors met for their chemistry read, Moyer was absolutely taken
with Paquin. On the show, his character, the sensitive vampire Bill Compton, agonized over
his love for Sookie, which was in direct contrast to his fate in the underworld. But in real
life Moyer and Paquin's relationship was much less agonizing. They got married in 2010 and
welcomed twins Poppy and Charlie in 2012. They currently co-produce the Amazon series
Flack, in which Paquin plays a tortured publicist.
"What's the secret to looking like this?"
"I have twins and a full-time job."
"That would do it."
"How hot does your wife look? Oh my goodness."
"Isn't that some blessed good, innit?"
The strikingly handsome Irish-German actor Michael Fassbender has a history of hooking
up with his colleagues. After playing a struggling addict in the 2011 indie flick Shame, he briefly
dated his co-star Nicole Beharie. He also dated Zoë Kravitz after they starred together
in X-Men: First Class. But when he starred opposite Alicia Vikander in the 2016 romantic
drama The Light Between Oceans, he was so smitten that his serial dating came to a halt.
A classically trained ballet dancer, Vikander gained plenty of notice for playing a robot
in the offbeat 2015 sci-fi flick Ex Machina. The following year, she won an Oscar for The
Danish Girl. That same year Fassbender was nominated for the title role in the biopic
Steve Jobs. This powerful acting duo tend to keep their romance on the down low, though
a few shots of their secret 2017 wedding in Ibiza did pop up on the internet. Their careers,
meanwhile, are anything but low-key, as Vikander is set to reprise her role as the new Lara
Croft in Tomb Raider 2, and rumors are swirling that Fassbender will star in a reboot of The
Wild Bunch.
After starring in the likes of Avatar and Colombiana, Zoe Saldana was eager for more
action films to come her way. The 2012 mystery romantic drama The Words was the total opposite
of this desire, but she nevertheless soon connected with the role with the help of her
co-star Bradley Cooper. As a writer who steals someone else's work to become famous, Cooper
was charismatic, but afflicted by his secret. Playing his wife, Saldana was supportive but
no-nonsense, and their chemistry jumped off the screen.
"Okay, I gotta finish this."
"Fine. You're missing out."
Cooper and Saldana were romantically linked for a year, and their ultimate split resulted
in some professional awkwardness, as the actors had to spend some more time together on the
red carpet as they promoted The Words. Saldana eventually married Italian artist Marco Perego
in 2013 and the couple have three sons together. And as for Cooper, after several short-lived
romances, he got serious with his model girlfriend Irina Shayk, and they had a daughter together
in 2017, though they separated in 2019.
Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams seem like they were destined to meet each other. They
were both born in London, Ontario, Canada, though they took different paths to success.
Gosling was a child actor on The Mickey Mouse Club, while McAdams studied theatre at York
University and made her Hollywood debut in the 2002 comedy The Hot Chick. They were paired
up soon after in the 2004 romantic classic The Notebook, based on the Nicholas Sparks
novel of the same name. The movie was an instant hit, thanks in particular to the explosive
chemistry between its leads.
"You wanna dance with me?"
"Sure. Now?" "Mm-hmm."
Playing conflicted lovers Noah and Allie, Gosling and McAdams initially had a hard time
finding their romantic rhythm. In 2014, director Nick Cassavetes told VH1 that Gosling even
wanted to work with a different actress. But they eventually worked it out, and their fiery
on-screen love soon crossed into real life as they started dating. But their demanding
schedules got the best of them as they parted ways in 2007. Since 2011, Gosling has been
with his long-time girlfriend Eva Mendes, with whom he has two daughters. And as for
McAdams, in 2016 she started dating her current partner, screenwriter Jamie Linden, with whom
she has one son.
Ginnifer Goodwin's career has seen her often play the girl who has a hard time getting
a guy. In the likes of Mona Lisa Smile and He's Just Not That Into You, she puts all
her cards on the table for men who aren't exactly the most emotionally available. In
2011's Something Borrowed, she falls for her best friend's fiancé, and on the HBO show
Big Love, she shared a husband with two other women. But on the ABC fantasy series Once
Upon a Time, she played Snow White, and appropriately enough, she finally found her Prince Charming.
Josh Dallas was the actor who played Charming on that show, and he also swept Goodwin off
her feet in real life. As she recalled during an appearance on Live with Kelly and Michael,
"I knew that in fact I was going to marry my husband Josh at Disneyland because I took
him for his first time ever and we had just started dating. We were on Big Thunder Mountain
and he threw his arms in the air and he goes, 'This is the best day of my life' and I was
like, 'We're totally getting married.'"
The couple went public at the 2012 White House Correspondents Dinner and then got married
in 2014. They welcomed their first son that same year and a second one in 2016. When Dallas
is away for work, he likes to send his wife flowers and FaceTime with her as much as possible.
"You guys are like a real Hollywood story. Was it love at first sight, love on the set?"
"Yeah, basically."
There were so many twists and turns on the scandalous ABC show Revenge, which starred
Emily VanCamp as Emily Thorne, a young woman who makes her way into the lives of the wealthy
Grayson family to get revenge for her father's death. She uses the romantic interests of
Grayson son Daniel, played by Josh Bowman, to uncover their dirty secrets. It was quite
a different part for VanCamp, at least compared to her work as Sharon Carter in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe.
Though her Revenge character's intentions were fake, there was nothing fake about the
romance that was blossoming off screen between VanCamp and Bowman. They attempted to keep
their budding relationship private, but the paparazzi caught them engaging in heavy PDA
all over Los Angeles. In 2017, VanCamp announced their engagement in a cute Instagram post,
and then they got married in the Bahamas the following year.
When Jennifer Lopez met Ben Affleck on the set of 2003's Gigli, she was already a married
woman. The movie was notoriously panned by critics, with the leads' lack of on-screen
chemistry at the center of much of the criticism. But they didn't let that negativity stop them
from working together again, as they also played husband and wife in 2004's Jersey Girl.
And they went public as a real-life couple once Lopez separated from her choreographer
husband Chris Judd.
In 2002, Affleck appeared in Lopez' music video for "Jenny from the Block," in which
they acted out much of the tabloid fodder and lack of privacy they were experiencing
in real life. That same year, Lopez showed off the blingy pink diamond engagement ring
Affleck gave her, which cost a whopping $2.5 million. But all that glitters isn't gold,
and a year later the couple called off their wedding. The flashing bulbs and constant attention
were just too much for them to handle. Lopez went on to marry singer Marc Anthony in 2004,
though they divorced in 2011, and she's now been engaged to Alex Rodriguez since 2019.
As for Affleck, he was married to Jennifer Garner from 2005 to 2018.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise first met when she auditioned for the 1990 sports drama Days
of Thunder. As she recalled in 2016 on The Jess Cagle Interview,
"I walked into the [audition], and [Tom] was the one that stood up and shook my hand. And
I just remember […] electricity going through me."
Kidman played a doctor who checked on the vitals of Cruise's race car driver, and whatever
she felt in her audition translated on screen, as their scenes were purely electric. Soon
after the movie wrapped, the two of them got married.
Cruise was a bona fide superstar at the time, while Kidman was still on her way to reaching
her highest levels of fame. When the couple appeared on screen together again in Stanley
Kubrick's 1999 psychological drama Eyes Wide Shut, audiences speculated about whether their
characters' marriage issues mirrored Kidman and Cruise's in real life. There may have
been something to the speculation, as they split up in 2001 after 11 years of marriage.
Cruise would go on to be married to Katie Holmes from 2006 to 2012, while Kidman married
country crooner Keith Urban in 2006.
In 1989, Johnny Depp was a teen heartthrob, hot off his starring role on the Fox police
procedural 21 Jump Street, while Winona Ryder, fresh off of Heathers, was already the poster
girl for the burgeoning alternative scene of the era. The stars aligned when they met
at the premiere of the 1989 movie Great Balls of Fire. They locked eyes, and as Depp recalled
to Rolling Stone,
"It was a classic glance, like the zoom lenses in West Side Story, and everything else gets
foggy."
Depp made a big impression on Ryder, as he was her first kiss, first boyfriend, first
fiance, and first person she slept with. They got engaged after only five months of dating
and Depp famously got a tattoo that said "Winona Forever."
They starred together in the quirky 1990 Tim Burton film Edward Scissorhands as love interests
who are ultimately pulled apart. Life imitated art for the couple, as they parted ways after
four years of dating. After the split Depp changed his tattoo to "Wino Forever." In 2020,
Ryder testified on Depp's behalf during his abuse trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
On the witness stand she stated,
"I truly and honestly only know him as a really good man — an incredibly loving, extremely
caring guy who was so very protective of me and the people that he loves, and I felt so
very, very safe with him."
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