On-Screen Couples That Couldn’t Stay Together In Real Life

There are lots of celebrities that somehow start a relationship together either during or after playing in a movie together where they’re supposed to be a couple. But much like other, normal love, it doesn’t always end in the best way. Sometimes the fire just dies out after a while, other times there’s a third party involved which turns the whole thing into a mess the tabloids are going to adore.

Regardless of the who and why, let’s take a look at some celebrity on-screen couples that couldn’t make it work in real life.

Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise

When this couple met each other at the audition for Days of Thunder, they became the most popular couple in Hollywood. They starred in many movies together, and to everyone’s surprise, Tom Cruise filed for their divorce in 2001. Rumor has it that had something to do with him becoming very much tied to Scientology at that time, but no one will really know what went on in Tom’s head at that time.

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck

The only good thing to come out of that bad Daredevil movie was the relationship between Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck. They met a few years before that, on the set of Pearl Harbor, but didn’t develop feelings for each other until Daredevil. Nothing to make souls align like the worst comic book movie in cinematic history, am I right? The day after their tenth anniversary, they announced their separation.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Despite Pitt being married to Jennifer Aniston at the time, he fell for Jolie’s charms when filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith together. It took them a while to admit to their relationship and fully go for it, but after marrying in 2014 (11 years after the movie, if you’re keeping track), they divorced only two years later and Brangelina was no more.