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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