Pretending to be in love with someone else - maybe even someone not particularly likable or agreeable - is a big part of acting. Many stories involve love of some kind, and it's an actor's job to portray that love in a convincing manner. Even if the actor hates the other. In some rare cases, the job is made incredibly easy thanks to a real-life love between the two performers.
It's not often that real couples act alongside each other, but it's certainly not unheard of. And when it does happen, there is a certain type of electricity that simply cannot be replicated through acting alone.
A Quiet Place (2018)
Released in 2018 to enormous popularity and acclaim, A Quiet Place is a horror movie starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. They play Lee and Evelyn, a couple who are forced to protect their children from sound-sensitive monsters who will attack anything within range of the source of the sound - no matter how quiet.
Krasinski and Blunt are a couple in real life and have been together since 2008. They married in July 2010 and currently have two children of their own. They have also worked together on The Muppets (2011), The Wind Rises (2013), and the upcoming A Quiet Place II.
Blades Of Glory (2007)
Blades of Glory is a figure skating-based comedy starring Will Ferrell and Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder. Playing the top figure skating team, Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, are Will Arnett and Amy Poehler.
At the time, Arnett and Poehler were married, having tied the knot back in 2003. They have two children together, the first of which was born one year after the release of Blades of Glory. The couple also went on to work together in Horton Hears a Who (2008) and Monsters v. Aliens (2009). However, Arnett and Poehler have since split, with their divorce finalized in 2016.
Daredevil (2003)
Daredevil certainly isn't one of the more fondly-remembered superhero movies, despite its stellar A-list cast. At the heart of the story are Daredevil and Elektra, played respectively by real-life couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.
Although Affleck and Garner worked on Pearl Harbor (2001) together, they didn't make their relationship official until they worked on the Marvel movie. They later married in June of 2005 and remained together for twelve years. The couple officially filed for divorce in April 2017, and the divorce was finalized over one year later in October 2018.
Hackers (1995)
Released in 1995, Hackers follows a group of tech-savvy high school students as they become embroiled in a corporate conspiracy. Playing the lead roles were Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller. The two quickly grew close while filming and soon entered into a romantic relationship.
They married in March 1996 - just six months after the release of Hackers. Unfortunately, their public marriage did not last very long, and Jolie filed for divorce in February of 1999. Still, the two exes have remained amicable, with Jolie and Lee Miller working together on The Day After Peace (2008)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Kenneth Branagh is no stranger to Shakespeare adaptations, and in 1993, he adapted one of his most popular comedies - Much Ado About Nothing. Originally written in the late 16th century, Much Ado About Nothing concerns the love between Benedick and Beatrice. Playing these two characters in the 1993 adaptation were Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson.
The real couple had married in 1989 and often collaborated on several projects together, including Henry V (1989) and Dead Again (1993). Unfortunately, the marriage ended in 1995 when Branagh reportedly cheated on Thompson with Helena Bonham Carter.
10 Years (2011)
Produced by Channing Tatum, 10 Years was released in 2011 and starred an ensemble cast, including Tatum himself and Jenna Dewan. Tatum and Dewan were a married couple at the time, having met and fell in love on the set of Step Up back in 2006.
They had married in July of 2009, and their first daughter was born in May of 2013. The couple stayed together for nearly nine years, as they co-announced their separation in April 2018.
Take Me Home Tonight (2011)
Released in 2011, Take Me Home Tonight was a comedy that bombed at the box office, grossing just $7 million on a $19 million budget. It also received poor reviews. In the film are characters Wendy Franklin and Kyle Masterson, played respectively by Anna Faris and Chris Pratt.
The real-life couple met each other during the movie's table read and instantly hit it off. They married in 2009. When Take Me Home Tonight and What's Your Number (which also starred the couple) was finally released in 2011, Faris and Pratt were already two years married.
Cruel Intentions (1999)
This teen drama contains a fantastic cast consisting of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. Witherspoon and Phillippe had met back in 1997 and instantly hit it off, becoming engaged just one year later.
The couple married in 1999 and Witherspoon gave birth to their first child that same year. 1999 also saw the release of Cruel Intentions. The couple would later have a second child in 2003 before splitting in 2006.
Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
Released in 1986, Haunted Honeymoon is a comedy horror co-written and directed by Gene Wilder. Like John Krasinski, Wilder directed and co-starred with his real-life wife, Gilda Radner.
Wilder and Radner had previously met and fell in love on the set of Hanky Panky (1982), eventually marrying in September of 1984 (after Radner left her husband, G.E. Smith). Unfortunately, Radner grew sick during the filming of Haunted Honeymoon (1986) and she died from ovarian cancer in 1989 at the age of 42.
The Big Sleep (1946)
Often regarded as one of the greatest film noirs of all time, The Big Sleep stars Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe. Acting alongside Bogart as Vivian Rutledge was Bogart's real wife, Lauren Bacall. Bacall was actually Bogart's fourth wife, and they met each other while filming To Have and Have Not (1944).
The two married in 1945, and The Big Sleep was released the following year. They remained married until Bogart's death from esophageal cancer in 1957. Bacall outlived her husband by nearly sixty years, passing away at the age of 89 in 2014.