Do Real-Life Couples Make Better On-Screen Partners?
Throughout Hollywood, there are many couples working together.
Whether they met on set, a la Zendaya and Tom Holland, or decided to work together after they got together, there are plenty of real-life couples who share the big and small screen, and most fans eat it up.
Who has more chemistry than a couple who are madly in love when the cameras stop rolling?
Despite the crazy chemistry, not all fans are interested in seeing couples act together, especially if it happens frequently.
So, what camp do you fall in?
Do you find real-life couples acting together cute and fun?
Or does it annoy you?
You Can’t Fake the Chemistry
One of the positives of real-life couples sharing the screen together is that, oftentimes, you’ll get a glimpse into what may make their relationship work well.
You can see the chemistry and the ease with which they exist with each other, especially if a couple is also portraying a loving couple on-screen.
As previously mentioned, Zendaya and Tom Holland have a very sweet chemistry that has been evident in the Spider-Man movies, making the pairing of Peter Parker and Michelle Jones-Watson feel all the more real and exciting.
You can buy that the pair are falling in love, and there’s certainly an element of their real-life bond that helps to sell the pairing on-screen.
John Krasinski and Emily Blunt teamed up for A Quiet Place, a collaboration that was beautiful and emotional on every level.
With Krasinski also serving as director, it must have been a heavy load for the pair, but in the end, both actors rose to the occasion, with critics lauding the pair for delivering a creatively enriching film together.
The trust between them clearly helped them bring something special to a project that relied on the audience connecting with two parents struggling to keep their family safe in the face of unspeakable horrors.
Is It Too Much of a Good Thing?
Back in the day, many of Hollywood’s most famous couples would often act alongside each other, to the point where they became synonymous with one another and left a lasting legacy.
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall may be perhaps the most famous of all, with several iconic movies to their names, including Dark Passage and Key Largo.
Nowadays, there aren’t quite as many Bogie and Bacalls, though couples like Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, as well as Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, show up in the same projects more often than others.
On the television front, Jennifer Love-Hewitt has starred alongside real-life hubby Brian Hallisay in The Client List, 9-1-1, and the Lifetime holiday movie, The Holiday Junkie.
In 9-1-1, the married couple was also married on-screen, but Hallisay’s Doug Kendall was an abusive murderer, who at one point kidnapped estranged wife Maddie, with Maddie eventually killing Doug after a tense and emotionally heavy hour of television.
The intimacy of that hour was intense, and there was surely a comfort between the two of them having to play something so awful and terrifying that they may not have had with any other actor on the planet.
Hewitt and Hallisay are a great example of a couple that plays off one another well, whether they’re married, falling in love, or some devastating third thing, and that will never get tiring for audiences who long to see that feeling of authenticity reflected in character relationships.
What’s the Reality of Working On-Screen?
While there are plenty of couples who have worked together to great effect, not every on-screen couple link-up works out, at least from an audience perspective.
Working together may also be something that’s fun for couples, but it can also be taxing at times, considering the sheer amount of time spent together, both personally and professionally.
It’s up to each couple whether or not they feel comfortable and are amenable to what working together and being together entail.
While not many couples are constantly working together, save for a few, the general consensus in Hollywood seems to be that working with significant others is something that many couples find enjoyable.
And fans are usually eager to see projects that star real-life spouses, as they love to get a glimpse of the couple in a new and different capacity through fresh and engaging characters.
For the celebrities who choose to work together, it can definitely strengthen their bond and bring something unique and different to a project.
Yes, acting is about immersing yourself in a character and making the audience believe you’re madly in love with the person standing across from you, even if in real life, you’ve just met them.
But when two people with history and actual love and romance between them come together, it can only enhance the story you’re trying to tell, and in turn, the audience’s experience.
Do You Like Real-Life Couples Working Together On-Screen?
What do you guys think about couples starring in multiple projects?
Is that something you enjoy? Or does it start to feel like overkill?
What are some of your favorite couples who’ve acted together?
Let us know in the comments!
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