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This trope is when two actors—or, occasionally, groups of more than two—end up working together over and over for no other reason than because directors think audiences like them. Sometimes, the two are in a Real Life relationship, but that's not the reason why they're cast together; the chemistry that gives them might help, but the essential point is audience appeal.
In Hollywood, this trope was more common in the studio era, when most actors and actresses were under contract to a particular studio, and those studios would match them up together repeatedly if they proved a success. It's still common in Bollywood, where jodinote "couple" or "pair" is used to describe costars who frequently play lovers onscreen.
This doesn't apply when the actors work together over and over because they're part of a film franchise (like the kids in the Harry Potter movies, for example).
See also Double Acts and Groups, Production Posse and Only So Many Canadian Actors. Unrelated to, but may overlap with, Those Two Guys.
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Brazilian actors Wagner Moura (best known for his roles in The Elite Squad and Narcos) and Lázaro Ramos, going as early as 1998 and even extending to the Penélope Cruz film Woman on Top (2000).
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In both Jo and The Big Restaurant, he's facing Bernard Blier as a Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist (and Straight Man).
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Mad TV veterans Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele, whenever one of them as much a has a guest role in a TV show such as Bob's Burgers or Rick and Morty they will usually find a role for the other one.
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Andy Mientus and Krysta Rodriguez have been in Smash, Chasing Life, and Spring Awakening together.
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The success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was in large part due to the chemistry between leads Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Little wonder they were paired again in The Sting.
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They were joined by Marc Warren (Danny from Hustle) in one episode of Life on Mars, State of Play and Mad Dogs, so it seems it's a trio.
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Kate Ritchie and Martin Dingle Wall have twice played a romantic couple (Sally and Flynn on Home and Away (though Flynn had been recast by the time the two got engaged) and Les and Judi Kane in Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities) and once played two (platonic) partnered police detectives (Cops: L.A.C.).
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William Gaxton and Victor Moore were already established stars on Broadway in 1931, when they starred in Of Thee I Sing, which began a partnership that lasted for fifteen years. After Of Thee I Sing and its sequel Let 'Em Eat Cake, they starred in the Broadway musicals Anything Goes, Leave It to Me!, Louisiana Purchase, Hollywood Pinafore and Nellie Bly. They also starred with Mae West in the 1943 movie The Heat's On.
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Outside of Minder, Dennis Waterman and George Cole co-starred in the horror film Fright and provided the voices for a children's cartoon series called Tube Mice. Cole also made guest appearances in Waterman's shows The Sweeney and New Tricks.
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His two highest-grossing movies (The Sucker and La Grande Vadrouille) were with another French comedy superstar, André Raimbourg, better known as Bourvil. They also played together in La Traversée de Paris (1956) and Poisson d'avril (1954), where De Funès had smaller roles. A third Gérard Oury film, Delusions of Grandeur, was planned to be their fifth together, but it was derailed by Bourvil's death. Yves Montand took his place after his wife Simone Signoret told Oury about him, and the whole story was rewritten to match differences between Montand and Bourvil.
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This duo is even referenced in Homestuck, which casts them as the titular protagonists of the In-Universe film adaptation of the Defictionalized Webcomic Within A Webcomic Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.
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It did facilitate another Ben & Matt movie eventually, The Last Duel.
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Robert Brown played Moore's squire in Ivanhoe, made two guest appearances on The Saint and appeared in three of his Bond films (first as an admiral, then as M).
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British actors tend to work with each other quite a bit. Watch the Harry Potter movies, then watch some other British movies and see how many of the Harry Potter actors appear together in the same movie. It can be all but guaranteed that if a British actor wasn't in a Harry Potter film themselves, they've shared a screen with someone who was — probably several times. This phenomenon has been nicknamed "British Actor Bingo", leading to the common Tumblr wisdom that "Britain has twelve actors, six writers, three locations and ten props."
Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson in Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually, Judas Kiss, the Harry Potter movies, A Little Chaos, and The Winter Guest (which Alan directed and made a cameo).
Thompson also had this during her marriage with Kenneth Branagh: Henry V (1989), Dead Again, Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and Peter's Friends, as well as the TV series Fortunes of War (which came before their marriage). They both appeared in the Harry Potter series, but not in the same movie: Branagh's lone appearance as Gilderoy Lockhart was in the second film, while Thompson didn't start playing Sybil Trelawney until the third film.
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However, she did five films with Gordon MacRae: Starlift, Tea For Two, The West Point Story, On Moonlight Bay and its sequel By The Light of the Silvery Moon.
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Conrad Coleby and Josh Quong Tart have played best friends on All Saints, headLand and Home and Away.
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Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Casino also feature Frank Vincent, typically on the receiving end of violence from Pesci's character. Pesci and Vincent previously appeared together in The Death Collector (which got them their Raging Bull gigs after De Niro saw it), and later in Easy Money and Dear Mr. Wonderful, and had been longtime collaborators even before their film careers as musicians and as a Martin and Lewis-style comedy team (Pesci was the Jerry Lewis-type figure).
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Xiao Zhan and Li Qin have acted together in one film and three television series (Joy Of Life, Battle Through the Heavens, and The Wolf).
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Other than Lethal Weapon 3 and Lethal Weapon 4, Mel Gibson and Rene Russo also made Ransom together in between these two films.
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Many, many cast members also appear in Legend of the Seeker.
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In-universe: America's Sweethearts is centered around a romantically involved movie star couple (played by John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones) that starred in several successful movies before suddenly splitting up, forcing their publicist to maintain the illusion to promote their latest movie.
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Joseph Kosala and Ron Dean were in Code of Silence, Above the Law (1988), The Package, The Fugitive, Steal Big Steal Little, and Chain Reaction together, and often in the same scene. Not by coincidence, all six movies were Andrew Davis films.
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Dilraba Dilmurat and Vin Zhang have acted together in five series so far: V Love, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, Pretty Li Hui Zhen, The King's Woman, and The Flame's Daughter.
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Even before Life On Mars, John Simm and Phil Glenister had done State of Play and Tuesday. In 2010, they were reunited in Mad Dogs.
They were joined by Marc Warren (Danny from Hustle) in one episode of Life on Mars, State of Play and Mad Dogs, so it seems it's a trio.
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The box office value of film pairings such as these was established early on, as recognized by the in-universe example of Don Lockwood & Lina Lamont from Singin' in the Rain.
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand examples:
Many, many cast members also appear in Legend of the Seeker.
Manu Bennett (Crixus) was in an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, where his character has an affair with Xena, just like Crixus has an affair with Lucretia, played by Lucy Lawless.
Viva Bianca (Ilithyia) and Hanna Mangan Lawrence (Seppia) starred in X: Night of Vengeance.
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Liu Yi Jun and Ji Chen have acted together three times: in Nirvana in Fire, Lost Love in Times, and The Legend of Xiao Chuo.
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Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins of Ginger Snaps fame played sisters again in Another Cinderella Story.
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Christine Taylor, Stiller's wife, has appeared in a number of things opposite him. Zoolander, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, and Arrested Development.
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Outside of the Ocean's Eleven trilogy, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon appeared in Happy Feet Two.
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Laurie also appeared on the first episode of QI.
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Liang Jie and Xing Zhao Lin have starred together four times: in The Eternal Love and its sequels, and in You Are My Destiny.
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Other than the two live-action Scooby-Doo movies, Matthew Lillard and Freddie Prinze Jr. worked together on She's All That, Wing Commander and Summer Catch.
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Bronson and Coburn also made guest appearances in McQueen's TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive.
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