How can you not wonder about the offscreen relationship of two people starring in a movie together? We all want to know if the sexual chemistry between them is real! Did they have a good time filming those kissing scenes? We all know that actors get paid to play pretend, but it turns out that there is sometimes more to it than talent. Ever since Hollywood started, stars have always partaken in romantic dalliances with their costars. However, the bad news is that many of them are already in a relationship with other people. Sometimes, they are even married! This is a list of movies that led to the end of marriages. Stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood had been less discreet about their affairs, but they continue to happen to this day. Which stars cheated on their partners and spouses with their costars?
Cleopatra – Richard Burton And Elizabeth Taylor
In 1961, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton worked on Cleopatra together. At first, the two of them hated one another. The actress even said he was “brutish and boorish.” On the other hand, he referred to her as “Miss Tits.” However, things changed once they had their first kiss. It looks like they could not stop in front of the cameras! The only catch was that both of them were already married by then. She was with Eddie Fisher, her fourth husband. Meanwhile, he was the husband of Sybil Williams. When the cat was out of the bag, their marriages came to an end. Burton and Taylor tied the knot in 1964 and stayed together until 1974. They then divorced, only to remarry each other in 1975. It only lasted a year at that time.
Cleopatra – Richard Burton And Elizabeth Taylor
Mr. & Mrs. Smith – Brad Pitt And Jennifer Aniston
It is safe to say that Mr. And Mrs. Smith was when the marriage between Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt went down the train. When she filed for divorce months before the movie came out, she said that it was because of “irreconcilable differences.” The actor later admitted that he “fell in love” with Angelina Jolie on the movie set. It started as a rumor, but they eventually came clean. Jolie admitted that sparks were flying at the time, but she was hesitant since he was married. “It took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe,” she shared. “And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration.” This was the start of Brangelina!
Mr. & Mrs. Smith – Brad Pitt And Jennifer Aniston
To Have And Have Not – Humphrey Bogart
Before they became known as one of the biggest couples in Hollywood, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were friends. If you can use that word to describe people who kissed and held hands on the set. They were filming To Have and Have Not when people noticed the chemistry between the 19-year-old actress and the 44-year-old actor. Their costar Dan Seymour explained, “We knew things were happening. He had that sort of smile you can still see on the screen.” At the time, Bogart had been married to Mayo Methot. As you can imagine, she was not happy to hear the news. He got out of the marriage and managed to do so without getting stabbed by his wife again. After that, Bogey and Bacall finally tied the knot. They remained man and wife until he died in 1957.
To Have And Have Not – Humphrey Bogart
The Outlaw Josey Wales – Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood was quite the ladies’ man back in the day. However, he is probably best known for the relationship that began while working on The Outlaw Josey Wales. At the time, he was still married to a woman called Maggie Johnson. This did not stop him from starting a rather obvious affair with Sondra Locke, his costar. The two of them eventually cohabitated together, but it was not quite as blissful as the others on the list as it ended in resentment. At any rate, we added it here because he and Johnson divorced because of it. Locke talked about this in detail in her memoir. It is called “The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly.”
The Outlaw Josey Wales – Clint Eastwood
Days Of Thunder – Tom Cruise
When Tom Cruise started working on Days of Thunder, his marriage with Mimi Rogers was already on the rocks thanks to his dalliances. The coffin’s final nail was none other than his affair with Nicole Kidman, his costar in the film. A month into the production, he and Rogers finally went their own ways. According to a former Scientology executive, Scientology leader David Miscavige had to do with this. At the time, this man had a feud with the father of Rogers. We will not go into details but let us say that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman walked down the aisle less than a year after they met.
Days Of Thunder – Tom Cruise
By The Sea – Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie
Earlier, we talked about how Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got together. Sadly, things eventually ended for the power couple as well. In 2015, they starred in By the Sea. When it was released, she said that it was a “test” of their marriage. However, it ended up looking more like a documentary instead. There were rumors that her “dark side” poisoned the relationship during production. The actress herself has said that the two of them butted heads on the set. A year after it came out, she filed for divorce.
By The Sea – Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie
The Misfits – Marilyn Monroe And Arthur Miller
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller were four years into their marriage when they worked together on The Misfits. Sadly, the pressures of the project had been too much for them. The playwright wrote it as a way to help her career. However, the actress did not enjoy his blatant sexism and constant rewrite. In “The Passion and the Paradox,” a biography about her, she alleged that the movie’s most interesting characters went to the male stars. Aside from that, they spent months in the Nevada desert. Her health was also on the decline at the time. They eventually divorced. The movie was the last one that both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable did before they passed away. The actor died twelve days after filming it, while she passed away a year after its release. Some critics that she gave her best film performance here.
The Misfits – Marilyn Monroe And Arthur Miller
Daredevil – Jennifer Garner
In 2002, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner started to film Daredevil. At the time, both of them were in committed relationships with other people. He was engaged to Jennifer Lopez back then, while she was still married to Scott Foley. Neither of them has admitted to having a relationship on the set, but the actor confirmed that they fell in love while working together on the superhero movie. “That’s where I found my wife,” Affleck shared, “We met on Pearl Harbor, which people hate, but we fell in love on Daredevil.” A year after the movie came out in February 2003, he broke up with JLo. Two months after that, Garner filed for divorce. In October 2004, they made their first public appearance as a couple at a Red Sox game.
Daredevil – Jennifer Garner
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh was the director and tar of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. At the time, he made up a power couple with Emma Thompson. They were one of the most famous couples in British cinema at the time. Production on the movie started five years into their marriage. However, he was unable to look past his attraction to Helena Bonham Carter. His wife divorced him as soon as the affair came to light. However, the two women have since cleared the air. Thompson shared, “As Mike Nicholls [the film and theatre director] once said, and I’ve picked it up because I think it’s such a wonderful phrase – all blood under the bridge. You can’t hold on to anything like that. I think… pfft… It’s pointless. I haven’t got the energy for it. Helena and I made our peace years and years ago.”
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Kenneth Branagh
Green Lantern – Ryan Reynolds
They might be one of the most beloved couples in Hollywood right now, but Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are not exactly forthcoming about when their relationship began. However, it looks like they got to know each other better while working on Green Lantern. They were spotted in New York City at the time. We can only guess that their friendship blossomed into something else and ended their relationships. Back then, Lively was still with fellow Gossip Girl alum Penn Badgely. On the other hand, Reynolds split up with his then-wife, Scarlett Johansson. In 2012, they finally tied the knot.
Green Lantern – Ryan Reynolds
Dream House – Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz used to be in a relationship with Darren Aronofsky, the director of Black Swan. They were together for nearly a decade when she was cast to appear in Dream House. At the time, her costar Daniel Craig was already engaged to Satsuki Mitchell. However, it was hard to ignore the attraction between the two stars. Neither has said that the movie led to their breakups with their previous partners. However, Weisz has been candid about where she was in life back then. She said, “I worried about so many things, and it was hard for me to feel happy or understand what made me happy. Once you reach your forties, you know where to look.” The two of them went public not long after production wrapped up. Not only that, but they also became man and wife seven months later.
Dream House – Rachel Weisz
Stage Beauty – Billy Crudup
Billy Crudup and Mary Louise Parker were not married, but they were in a relationship for eight years. On top of that, she was seven months pregnant with their baby when he left her for his Stage Beauty leading lady Claire Danes in 2005. Yikes. Parker has talked about what was like for her in “Dear Mr. You,” the memoir she released in 2015. Danes, on the other hand, has talked about it from her point of view. The actress explained, “I was just in love with [Crudup] and needed to explore that, and I was 24… I didn’t quite know what those consequences would be.”
Stage Beauty – Billy Crudup
House Of Wax – Chad Michael Murray
In 2006, teenagers were shocked when Nick Carter joined Ryan Seacrest on the radio and dropped the bomb. He said that Paris Hilton, his girlfriend, hooked up with her costar Chad Michael Murray while they were taping House of Wax the previous year. What made it even more scandalous was that the actor was then married to Sophia Bush, his One Tree Hill costar. The couple had only been man and wife for five months at the time! They separated right away and finalized the divorce after a couple of months. In 2014, she defended the divorce but circumvented the rumors related to the heiress. Bush just said, “We were two stupid kids who had no business being in a relationship in the first place. To all the other co-stars who’ve worked it out, more power to you.”
House Of Wax – Chad Michael Murray
Northern Lights – Leann Rimes And Eddie Cibrian
If you are a fan of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, we bet that you are also familiar with Northern Lights. After all, the Lifetime movie was the cause of tons of drama on the reality TV show’s set. On the movie set, Eddie Cibrian cheated on his wife Brandi Glanville with his costar LeAnn Rimes. At the time, the actress was married to Dean Sheremet as well. Not long after the news came to light, Cibrian and Rimes divorced their spouses. The two of them got married in 2011.
Northern Lights – Leann Rimes And Eddie Cibrian
Titanic – James Cameron And Linda Hamilton
Famous director James Cameron had only been married to Linda Hamilton for nine months when he fell in love with someone else. She was his fourth wife. They remained a couple for two years or so, but she said it was difficult for her. When she talked to The Telegraph, she shared, “The parading around, the lunches, the stress of being with Jim during the Titanic days – for years I could barely get make-up on, I was shaking so hard, because every award show we had was terrible.” She said that she was truly in love with the filmmaker but admitted that a lot was going on behind the scenes. Not long after the divorce, he got married to Suzy Amis. She was an actress in Titanic, and they met on the set!
Titanic – James Cameron And Linda Hamilton
Proof Of Life – Meg Ryan And Dennis Quaid
While Meg Ryan and Russel Crowe were filming this thriller, they were seen getting all cozy with each other. This resulted at the end of the marriage between the actress and Dennis Quaid. They split up, but she filed for shared custody of their 8-year-old child Jack. Years after that, he opened up about what it was like for him. “It’s kind of hard to ignore when you’re at a grocery store, and you’re like, checking out and those magazines on the side [feature] a photo of [Ryan and Quaid] with a little paper rip thing. If they hadn’t told me about the divorce, I would’ve been like ‘What’s that?’ as a kid,” he shared with US Weekly. We are sure that it was not easy for him, but he is still close with his parents. However, the romance between Meg Ryan and Russel Crowe was short-lived.
Proof of Life – Meg Ryan And Dennis Quaid
Mind Over Murder – Tori Spelling
Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling have been man and wife since 2006. However, the two were married when they met while working on a Lifetime television movie called Mind Over Murder. Back then, she was with Charlie Shanian. On the other hand, he was with Mary Jo Eustace. Not even an entire year after the movie wrapped up, the two of them eloped in Fiji! They have not looked back since then. The actor has a son with his ex-wife, while he has five kids with Spelling.
