Posted 5 minutes ago16 Actors Who Didn't Meet Their Costars Until After The Movie Came Out (Or Have Yet To Meet Them)Jack Black and Jackie Chan did three movies together before finally meeting in real life.by Lauren GarafanoBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink 1. John Krasinski played Mr. Fantastic in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and even had a fight scene with Elizabeth Olsen, who played Wanda Maximoff. However, a year after the movie came out Elizabeth said "I never met him" when she was asked about John during a lie detector test. Marvel / Everett Collection The interviewer responded, "You don't know him at all?" to which Elizabeth said, "I don't think so...no, I've never met him." She added that she had met his wife, Emily Blunt, though. The lie detector tech confirmed that she was telling the truth. 2. Tig Notaro replaced Chris D'Elia in Army of the Dead, but she wasn't cast until the film had already been shot. So, Tig never actually met her costars. Tig, who shared a number of scenes with Dave Bautista, said in an interview, "I've never met Dave Bautista in my life. I've never met the man." Netflix / Everett Collection A few months later, Dave did an interview where he said he still hadn't met Tig, but wishes he had. "What really bothers me, when I watch this film - it bothers me that I don't know Tig," he said. "I feel like I should know her. I want to meet her, and I want to hug her and tell her how amazing she was in the film. I've been able to do that with all my other co-stars, and I haven't been able to do it with Tig because I haven't met her yet. I think she's amazing and is incredible in the film." 3. Kate Mara appeared in the 2014 film Transcendence alongside Johnny Depp. However, she didn't actually meet him until after the film wrapped and they were doing press before the film's release. "I am in a Johnny Depp movie, but I didn't get to meet him! We were shooting for separate scenes all the while. I finally met him at the press junket for our movie," she said. Peter Mountain / Alcon / Everett Collection 4. Jack Black and Jackie Chan had worked together for a decade, making three Kung Fu Panda movies, before they actually met in real life. "We've worked together literally 10 years, side-by-side, on one of the most successful franchises of all time," Jack joked. "Never met the man. Never so much as a high-five, not even a glance across the room. We've never been within 100 yards of each other." Paramount / Â(C)Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection / Kevin Winter / Getty Images / Vcg / VCG via Getty Images For animated films, actors record their parts in separate areas, so that's why the two never crossed paths for 10 years. In 2016, Jack shared what it was like to finally meet Jackie. "I'd been dying to meet him," he said. "I see the man and his aura is just glowing. He's like, 'Hello, Mr. Black.' And we had this powerful shake, and this amazing eye contact - transferral of energies - and he said, 'Think of a movie. We do it.'" 5. While Jodie Foster and Anthony Perkins filmed their Silence of the Lambs scenes face-to-face, they actually never said a single word to one another on set. Jodie avoided him at all costs during filming, but finally, after the movie wrapped, they spoke. "We got to the end of the movie and really had never had a conversation," she said. Orion Pictures / Everett On the last day of filming, they chatted, and Jodie told Anthony that she was scared of him. Funnily enough, Anthony told Jodie that he was scared of her too. 6. Christopher Briney shared that while he and Mean Girls costar Jon Hamm were on set at the same time, they didn't actually meet each other until they ran into each other at the US Open. Paramount / Everett Collection While he was on The Tonight Show promoting Mean Girls, Jimmy Fallon asked if he got to hang out with castmates Jon and Megan Thee Stallion. Christopher said, "No, man. I didn't meet anybody." He added that he did get to see Jon crossing the field when he was done filming but they did eventually meet after filming wrapped. 7. Will Smith and Jared Leto were literally on set together filming Suicide Squad, but because Jared was always in character there was no way to actually interact with Jared himself. "I've never actually met Jared Leto," said Will during an interview back in 2016. Warner Bros. / Everett Collection "We worked together for six months, and we've never exchanged a word outside of 'Action' and 'Cut'," he added. "We've never said hello we've never said good day, I've only ever spoken to him as Deadshot and him as The Joker. I literally have not met him yet. Not a single word exchanged off-camera." 8. Several actors from past Spider-Man movies joined the cast of Spider-Man: No Way Home, including J.K. Simmons, who reprised his role as Daily Bugle's J. Jonah Jameson. Tom Holland said that despite being in the movie together, he never actually got to meet J.K. Marvel / Everett Collection He explained that because of t
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