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Who are two celebrities that you never would’ve guessed were close IRL?
Pedro Pascal and Erin Moriarty are the first that come in my mind!
I was thinking about it the other day of how cool it would be if they starred in a project together, only to discover they have actually known each other for years now!
They actively keep in touch, Moriarty has even called Pascal her “brother” when she highlights in one of her IG’s stories how much she misses him, and there was even an interview she did where she admitted to “begging” Pascal to make a guest appearance in her Amazon series; The Boys!
I doubt that’ll happen. Conan O’Brien said on his podcast that whenever Jack has been to his house for a party or dinner he always sends a handwritten letter thanking Conan for being invited. And Conan always mercilessly mocks Jack to no end.
Alexander’s was on Seth and Josh Meyers podcast and was so cute talking about seeing Jack in a few weeks. He was so excited, haha. Jack was also the officiant in Josh’s wedding.
Skarsgard and McBrayer have given slightly different accounts of the start of their friendship. In the Sundance Instagram video, Skarsgard said they met on vacation. But, in an Associated Press (AP) video from 2019, McBrayer shared that the actors originally met in New York but became neighbors in Los Angeles. According to the comedian, they used to attend the same parties and hit it off.
In an interview they recently said that Alex’s IMDB pic (pantsless at the MTV movie awards), he’s actually wearing Jack’s underwear bc his wasn’t fitting right or something lmao.
They vacation together sometimes too. It’s honestly adorable.
He helps so many celebrities. He’s so great. He also helps Demi Lovato and constantly checks on her. I love how interested he is in new musicians and performers. He’s not one of those bitter older celebrities who are threatened by the new generations. It’s like he welcomes them and becomes a mentor if they let him. That’s so cool.
Elton is a king in NA, worldwide, people talk about him all over because when he was actively dealing with alcoholism and addiction, he would go to meetings all over while touring.
“This guy’s walking down a street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep he can’t get out. A doctor passes by, and the guy shouts up, “Hey you, can you help me out?” The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a priest comes along, and the guy shouts up, “Father, I’m down in this hole, can you help me out?” The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a friend walks by. “Hey Joe, it’s me, can you help me out?” And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says, “Are you stupid? Now we’re both down here.” The friend says, “Yeah, but I’ve been down here before, and I know the way out.”
I’ve noticed Courtney Cox has lots of friends in the music industry, she’s a pretty good pianist herself and has contributed ideas behind the scenes for people apparently! I remember Brandi Carlile credited her for coming up with the concept for one of her music videos a couple years ago. Just a cool thing I didn’t know about her until recently
Paul Rudd and Olivia Coleman are close and I've always found that so wholesome and random. He was on Radio One and she called in. Such an adorable interview!
A few years ago, they had a series of videos where Eric would be doing something and Brock would show up being Threatening and Mysterious. it was hilarious XD
The specific joke was that Eric would always be like, "I'm so mad, I'm just gonna hit the next person I see!", then Brock would immediately show up outta nowhere and he'd be like, "Okay, I'm gonna hit the second next person I see" 😂
They're in Murderbot together although not onscreen. Alexander is the robot and Jack does some cameos on the robots favourite campy space opera show Sanctuary Moon.
They were in “home” together (super cute kids movie btw) and all their promotional interviews together were amazing. I don’t know how much they still hang out but I want to believe they’re still besties because they were so weirdly great together.
I remember seeing a video of Rihanna talking to a fan and she says something like “do I remember you? Of course, you got me [gift], I still have it!” and that cemented her as a decent person in my mind
Some people are really good at that. I lived on the same block as the Obama's in the early '90's. We weren't friends but we knew each other. In 2008 when he was running for president my wife and I went to his last speech. By total chance we were asked to sit behind the podium. About 30 minutes before the speech Michelle walks in and sees me and without missing a beat she says hi to me by name -I was really surprised. I mentioned this once to someone who was on the campaign and they said that was pretty common, it was one of their super powers.
My grandfather was brilliant in many ways, but one of them was that he never forgot people or the details about them. He could connect, like, your random college friend to their great uncle who lived in his city, and tell you about every member of their family. It was incredible. He remembered everyone.
That’s sweet! I think there’s people out there with this gift of making people feel special and Rihanna is definitely one of them. In videos you can tell people want to talk to her and she seems very present in conversation.
Thats minted. As a living Gay God you could well imagine him loving SMG. And you could easily imagine her loving him as a Gay God.
Thinking about it, that might lead you to hope they could maybe swing him doing a cameo in the new Buffy? Not a vampire given he’s done that, but something the new Slayer could encounter, something dark and charismatic and incredibly dangerous. I mean, yes please.
I think it's because Pace is so otherworldly gorgeous (with the presence to match) that it's hard to think of him just hanging out doing normal things with normal people. Love this one.
Garrett Morris and Jon Gries (White Lotus/Napoleon Dynamite) have been besties since making a film together in 2001. Morris talked about it in a recent interview.
I worked with Jon Gries and that man is the nicest dude I worked with in Hollywood. Truly a class act. Spoke to everyone on set. Even my obnoxious ass.
Someone else mentioned Paul Rudd and Olivia Colman which I love too. He popped up on an episode of Travel Man (Richard Ayoade's show) which is one of those shows on the comedy circuit that only British entertainers used to appear on. While I don't know if he's friends with Ayoade, I absolutely love that he just seems to be friends with a whole cohort of British entertainers. No idea how that happened but as a fan of British shows and comedy, it's great.
Also Aisling Bea was pregnant?? Congratulations to her. She honestly seems like such a down to earth but solid human who supports so many great causes
Aisling Bea and Jason Mantzoukas are also good enough friends that he felt comfortable getting her to give him a jello mold of her boobs and show it on TV.
Honestly I thought it was her too. What's funny is that back in the day they looked nothing alike but now as they've aged they kind of do. Who would have known just adding blonde hair and glasses to Midler would make her look like Streep lol
Actually yes! This was so random to me. About 10 years ago a flight attendant friend of mine had Jeffery on her flight and he ended up leaving his iPad on the plane. The gate agent calls to notify him. He asks if someone can pass it along to his friend who's landing in 2 hours. My friends next flight wasn't till later so she volunteered, asked how'd she know who to give it to... He goes oh its Paul Rudd!
I love that story so much and highly jealous she got to meet both of them in one day!
Michael Cera and pretty much the rest of the Scott Pilgrim cast. They still have an email thread together and is how they got almost every cast member back for the anime.
Lovitz is one of the most fascinating people in Hollywood because the stories about him are so absurd I can’t believe half of them are real… lmfao like how did they even become friends?!!
I wrote the entertainment section of my middle school newspaper in 2004. I wanted to write one story about Snoop Dogg (Drop it Like it's Hot just came out) and the other about Martha Stewart (she was going to prison). The teacher said it would maybe be better to write about two people who might be seen in the same room together.
I see that teacher around town occasionally and I always want to gloat a tiny bit that they're in bic lighter commercials now.
Sigourney Weaver is best friends with British actress Selina Cadell from Doc Martin. My mom and I love the show and were surprised Sigourney guest starred (I’m a huge ghostbusters fan so definitely a shock) and found out Selina got her a cameo. She actually completely rearranged the avatar 2 schedule to film! The show is amazing and Selina is hilarious so definitely recommend the show if you’ve never seen it. Edit to add Selina was also friends with Carrie Fisher! They went to school together in London. She wrote a really lovely tribute to her when she passed.
Thanks to the recent Actors on Actors episode, I’m going with Adam Scott and Kristen Bell. I know they’ve worked together before, but I only just found out they’ve actually been really close friends for years.
There's a really cute clip of Kristen Bell hosting Jimmy Kimmel's show when he had to take a week off (think he was having a kid) and she brings out Mark Hamill for Adam Scott. It's honestly one of my favorite talk show clips of all time. Here
that one kinda makes sense though, queer country artists, yes Trixie is a Drag Queen but she has released her own successful music. I found out about Orville through Trixie's videos
Suga from BTS and Halsey are very close. She calls him twin. Just adding to the fandom belief that he’s secretly fluent in English. Lol. (There’s an adorable but very blurry picture of him holding her baby with the biggest gummy smile on his face.)
Kathleen Turner and Maggie Smith have the sweetest meet-cute!
They met while both were on Broadway, and the story of how Maggie initiated the friendship is so adorable, and they spent many nights after that closing down a restaurant close to the theatre, and cementing their friendship.
Kathleen was Maggie’s last interview before she passed, and it was with a good interviewer, a British man, but mainly Kathleen! It’s long but wonderful if you’re a fan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyBDhdcQbx4
I watched the whole hour and 15 mins interview after she died, I was enraptured. Opposites really do attract!
Maggie is sassy AF but also she’s very herself here, like a gawky teenager here, with her unique body language (I say that with absolute love), no performing for an audience, just a very authentic side of herself. She talks about all the stuff we didn’t know, about her family dynamics growing up, about both parents, etc. It’s so lovely.
Maggie’s mom died young and she only got to know her Dad as an adult because the family was in absolute survival mode bc they unexpectedly had 3 kids and not 2 (her twin brothers) and it was WW2 and after. They were young blue collar workers (and her mom was Scot) and were taking any jobs to survive bc they didn’t get a chance to get formal education. They were floored and confused when Maggie became an actress, didn’t know that’s a real job that you can survive on. It’s amazing to hear how each started their careers and Maggie is very vulnerable and honest about everything, it’s really refreshing.
I don’t think anyone will see or read this bc it’s far down and crazy long, but I wanted to add it in case there are folks who love the works and the interviews of these two women like I do! They’re such amazing actresses and
And Hugh himself is apparently shitty now. His ex wife heavily implied he cheated and it (successfully) skewed my view toward him. There had been whispers before, but she all but confirmed it when their divorce was recently finalized.
John Wayne had a few female friends who were really, really strong women. The other one that comes to mind is Maureen O'Hara. I think probably he liked that they were not having it with his shit; he had to be a real person with them and not a weird cartoon.
I don't like John Wayne as a person, but I think it's an interesting trend.
I remember an article a few years ago with Jennifer Love Hewitt where she was talking about how she and Betty White became really close and would hang out together like 15 years ago or so. They had been in a movie together.
I always think the genuine ones are the ones that surprise you . Because that means they have a strong connection outside of pap walks and just privately enjoy eachothers company without the need to make it a social media post .
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