14 movies that ended Hollywood marriages

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were once considered the golden couple but after he appeared in Mr & Mrs Smith with Angelina Jolie their marriage came to an abrupt end. There were problems before the movie but according to both Brad and Angelina they fell in love during the shoot which obviously didn’t leave much room for Jen.

Brad and Angelina’s own marriage was put to the test shooting this romantic drama about a married couple on the brink of separation. Jolie said she’s glad they did the movie as it helped communicate issues within their marriage but inevitably there were things wrong that couldn’t be fixed and she filed for a divorce a year later.

Ryan Reynolds was married to Scarlett Johansson during the filming of Green Lantern in 2010 but there had reportedly been trouble in their relationship before then. He met Blake Lively, who was dating her Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley, and the pair got on like a house on fire while shooting the DC film. Within a few months of each other, in the same year, Blake and Penn had split and Scarlett and Ryan had confirmed they were divorcing. By the end of 2011, Reynolds and Lively were a couple.

Rachel Weisz had been married to director Darren Aronofsky for eight years when she shot the horror movie with Daniel Craig. She soon split with her husband and got together with 007, who had ended his six year relationship with producer Satsuki Mitchell too.
Craig and Weisz married before Dream House had even come out but have been together ever since, and they have recently announced that she’s pregnant with their first child together.

Tom Cruise was married to Mimi Rogers when he signed on to star in the motor movie with Nicole Kidman. With trouble already in their marriage because of his cheating, Rogers filed for divorce one month into production and Cruise married Kidman a year later.

Ben Affleck says that he and Jennifer Garner fell in love shooting the superhero movie, having become friends on Pearl Harbour. Awkwardly, he was engaged to Jennifer Lopez at the time and she was married to Scott Foley. They didn’t get together straight away though; Bennifer broke up in 2004, a year after the Daredevil premiere, and Garner filed for divorce two months later.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton hated each other when they first started shooting the Hollywood epic but by the end of the shoot, they had fallen in love. Obviously, this didn’t go down well for their spouses Eddie Fisher and Sybil Williams, respectively, who were on the receiving end of divorce papers.
Not that Taylor and Burton’s marriage lasted. The couple married in 1964 only to divorce in 1974, then marry again in 1975 but divorce again the following year.

Kenneth Branagh was married to Emma Thompson when he starred in and directed this adaption of Shelley’s classic Gothic horror novel. He played Victor Frankenstein and Helena Bonham Carter played his fiancée and during the shoot, they had an affair. After Branagh and Thompson divorced, he and Bonham Carter were in a relationship for several years. They’re all friends now though.

Billy Crudup and Mary Louise Parker were technically not married but the pair had been together for eight years, and she was seven months pregnant when he left her for his Stage Beauty co-star Claire Danes in 2003.

Eastwood was known for being a bit of a philanderer but it came to a head on the set of this Western when he had a not-so-secret relationship with co-star Sondra Locke and they ended up living together. Obviously, his wife Maggie Johnson wasn’t ok with that so they ended up divorcing.

Meg Ryan married Dennis Quaid in 1991 but she claims he was unfaithful to her throughout. So when it came to shooting Proof of Life with Russell Crowe it seems their marriage was not in a good place so she ended up having an affair with her Aussie co-star. Meg and Dennis divorced in 2001 but her romance with Russell didn’t last much longer.

This film was written by Marilyn Monroe’s husband of four years, playwright Arthur Miller, as a vehicle for her to lead but it only ended up causing friction in their marriage. They argued on set over his constant rewrites and the fact that she thought the male characters were better written than her own. They divorced not long after the shoot, in 1961, and she died a year after its release, but it’s still considered by many her best performance.

Humphrey Bogart was married to Broadway star Mayo Methot but after shooting To Have and Have Not their marriage came to an end. Mainly because the 44-year-old actor had an affair with his 19-year-old co-star Lauren Bacall.

Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush were One Tree Hill sweethearts but their relationship turned sour after he cheated on her with Paris Hilton while shooting the horror movie. Chad and Sophia had only been married for five months when she filed for an annulment citing fraud but the judge denied the claim and they ended up divorcing instead.