Major Roles That Destroyed Celebrity Relationships

We've all heard about actors who go truly method when they're playing a part (looking right at you, Daniel Day Lewis and Jim Carrey) or who get a little too committed. Extreme weight loss or weight gain, bad haircuts, shaving their eyebrows — you name it, some celeb has probably done it (and maybe even received an Oscar in return). 

But the following stars may have gone a little too far, diving headfirst into their romantic roles or just letting the drama of a part intrude on their personal life. And yes, we're talking extreme situations like Shia LaBeouf possibly getting way too into character for a film called Nymphomaniac and Ben Affleck potentially relapsing into alcoholism just to portray a realistic hangover. However, instead of an Academy Award, all these unlucky-in-love A-listers ended up winning was a proverbial session with a couples therapist. Let's see who went from method acting to relationship mayhem. 

In the early 2000s, it was nearly impossible to escape the tabloid coverage of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. "Bennifer," who starred together in the 2003 bomb Gigli, was all over the news, especially after the co-stars got engaged that same year (and filmed a particularly memorable music video for her song "Jenny from the Block.") 

One flop brought them together, and it seems another flop may have helped tear them apart. The stars had planned a September 2003 wedding while also working on a second movie together, but just four days before the nuptials, Affleck reportedly called the whole thing off. Bennifer released a statement saying, "Due to the excessive media attention surrounding our wedding, we have decided to postpone the date." Unfortunately, they couldn't call off the movie. By the time the critically-slammed Jersey Girl was finally released in 2004, the real life romance was no more. 

Affleck told GQ the whole experience "was really bad for me in all kinds of different ways, particularly in terms of my emotional life, my sense of self."

British actor Andrew Garfield picked up a ton of buzz and critical acclaim for his role as a Jesuit priest in Martin Scorcese's Silence (2016), but he may have paid the price with his personal life. In April 2015, reports suggested he'd became so immersed in his work that long-term girlfriend Emma Stone (They'd been dating since 2011) had no choice but to end things and move back to Los Angeles.

An insider told US Weekly, "He'd been in a dark place for months, getting into his role... He wasn't being the best partner." Garfield reportedly had to spend tremendous amounts of time in Taiwan and lose 40 lbs for the part. It's probably safe to assume took that all the fun out of date night. However, the split didn't stop them from respecting each other's artistry — at least not in Garfield's case. In January 2017, he told Vanity Fair's Little Gold Men podcast, "For me, it's been bliss to be able to watch her success and watch her bloom into the actress that she is. And it's also been wonderful to have that kind of support for each other. It's nothing but a beautiful thing." As far as Stone's thoughts about Garfield post-romance? Well... she hasn't been as forthcoming. 

A classic Hollywood tale: two beautiful actors meet on the set of a movie, fall in love, and live happily ever after. Or, in the case of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (pictured right), they meet on the set of Cleopatra (1963), experience nonstop drama during a troubled shoot, get married, get divorced, and get married again. Oh, and did we mention that Taylor left then-husband Eddie Fisher (pictured left) to start said relationship, and Burton, who was also married at the time, was reportedly more than happy to carry on their torrid affair. That's two relationships destroyed by one film.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the glamorous couple's life together didn't exactly calm down after the affair was out in the open. Taylor and Burton's relationship became nearly as mythic as the roles they played in the film. They wed in 1964, divorced in 1974, remarried in 1975, and split again in 1976.

Suzy Amis got more than just the tip of the iceberg after signing on to play Lizzy Calvert in the mega blockbuster Titanic (1997). The film's director, James Cameron, reportedly grew infatuated with the actress, despite the fact he was with actress Linda Hamilton at the time. 

According to an interview with Hamilton in the Daily Mail, Cameron got together with Amis during shooting, then went back to Hamilton, married her, divorced her, and ended up back with Amis. Phew. "It's interesting because while he was making Titanic, Suzy at that time was the gargoyle on the end of my bed, waiting to swoop in," she said. "Now I'm the gargoyle on her bed because for Jim, the one who doesn't end up with him is always the one he wants. I'm the one who got away, and she has to live with that."

Be that as it may, Amis and Cameron wed in 2000, had kids, and have been together ever since. 

Back in 1999, Laura Dern was happily involved in a serious relationship with Billy Bob Thornton, or so she thought. Dern was working on a film while Thornton shot a role in Pushing Tin (1999), and as Dern told Talk magazine (via ABC News), he ghosted her. "I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I've never heard from him again...It's like a sudden death. For no one has there been any closure or clarity."

So what happened? Like some kind of proto-Pitt, Thornton got the hots for co-star Angelina Jolie and threw caution to the wind. The new couple quickly made things official, getting hitched in Las Vegas in 2000 after about two months of dating. 

Two vials of blood, some weird tattoos, and a few awkward red carpet appearances later, Thornton and Jolie called it quits in 2003 (just in time for Brad Pitt to swoop in.) Dern moved on to marry (and then divorce) musician Ben Harper.

Jennifer Lawrence may have starred in Darren Aronofsky's Mother!, but she is young enough to be the filmmaker's daughter. However, the age difference wasn't what doomed their relationship. It was, in part, the failure of the project. Though the flick maintains a 69% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, as of this writing, it had a bumpy start. 

According to The Telegraph, Mother! was met with "the lowest wide-release opening of Lawrence's entire career." Audiences hated it so much there were reportedly "mass walkouts." One critic from Observer even called it the "worst movie of the century." The film's onslaught of negative reviews really took a toll on Lawrence's relationship with the director. In an interview with Adam Sandler for Variety, she admitted the criticism consumed them.

"I was doing double duty of, you know, trying to be a supportive partner while also being like, 'Can I please, for the love of God, not think about Mother! for one second," she said. "And then he would start reading me reviews, and then I finally was just like, 'It's not healthy.'"

The pair, who met on-set, didn't even last through Mother!'s press cycle. According to Entertainment Tonight, they split in October 2017 after a year of dating. Mother! had premiered a month prior.

You can thank the forgettable TV flick Mind Over Murder for the reality gold that is Tori Spelling's string of reality shows with Dean McDermott (pictured right). Seriously, you thought you had problems, right? If it wasn't for the 2005 movie, the actors might have never met and fallen in love.

At the time, the Beverly Hills 90210 star was married to actor-writer Charlie Shanian (pictured left). McDermott was married to TV personality Mary Jo Eustace. That didn't stop them from letting sparks fly during their three-week shoot. Once Mind Over Murder wrapped, the stars wrote down a list of their shared goals on their flight back to L.A. 

"We wrote things like, 'Bicycling with Lance Armstrong. Both of us!' And we wrote that we'd have lots of babies. He wrote, 'I'd die for you,' and I wrote, 'I die a little bit every time I'm apart from you.' And we said we were never going to be apart for more than two days," Spelling said (via People).

In an interview with GQ (via E! News), Shanian admitted he found out that Spelling had been cheating by reading the National Enquirer. She later "officially dumped him" during a therapy session. McDermott reportedly filed for divorce "immediately" after returning home, and Spelling announced her separation the following week. They wed 30 days after McDermott's divorce was finalized, according to ABC News.