Unlike their onscreen counterparts, the vibes were precise bully betwixt Cranston and Paul erstwhile they began filming their critically acclaimed AMC bid Breaking Bad.

"I instantly fell successful emotion with this man," Paul told Esquire successful the pair's associated screen communicative for the January 2022 issue. "He's intolerable not to love." Paul went onto accidental that Cranston became "one of my closest friends— my mentor—very aboriginal on" in the show's run. Cranston is besides the godfather of his 2nd child, lad Ryden Caspian, with his woman Lauren Paul. 

After Breaking Bad ended, Cranston and Paul teamed up erstwhile again successful 2019 to launch a Mezcal enactment called Dos Hombres. In their Esquire interview, Cranston was speedy to recognition Paul arsenic the "brains" of their concern venture.

"He started it all. It was his idea," Cranston said. "He knows much astir concern than I do. Someone has to beryllium the screen girl, and that's me."

Oft-cited as the golden modular of co-stars turned champion friends, the Friends duo instantly connected erstwhile they were formed connected the iconic NBC bid successful 1994. They famously ate luncheon unneurotic each time during the show's decade-long run, Aniston is the godmother of Cox's daughter Coco Arquette and Cox was determination for Aniston erstwhile her matrimony to Brad Pitt fell isolated successful 2005.

"There's perfectly nary judgement successful Court," Aniston gushed to More magazine successful 2014 for a illustration connected her friend. "You'll ne'er consciousness scolded. She's highly fair, ridiculously loyal and fiercely loving."

She added, "I've slept successful her impermanent chamber a lot. Without giving distant excessively overmuch of my backstage stuff, each I tin accidental is she's been determination for maine done heavy and thin."

But it's not conscionable hard times that the champion friends person shared, with Cox telling TV Week successful 2010, "We conscionable person fun, we laugh, we're inseparable and it's great."

Just telephone them humor brothers.

After spending 8 seasons arsenic brooding vampires Damon and Stefan Salvatore, Somerhalder and Wesley weren't acceptable to enactment a involvement successful their relationship. So, they launched Brother's Bond Bourbon successful 2020, referencing their characters' portion of prime that yet bled into their off-set after-hour hangouts arsenic the inspiration for their liquor brand. 

Already utilized to being "attached astatine the hip," according to Wesley successful a 2021 interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter, successful their TVD days, their institution pb them to the "2.0" signifier of their lives. Somerhalder added, "This is gonna beryllium different decennary together."

And, similar their beloved characters, Somerhalder and Wesley's differences blending together make for a potent pairing.

"Ian is an eternal optimist and I'm an eternal pessimist," Wesley explained. "We equilibrium each different retired successful truthful galore ways—he'll spell big, and past I'll bring him down a small sometimes, erstwhile it's necessary."

Forget Joey and Pacey, and Joey and Dawson, due to the fact that Williams and Phillipps were the existent emotion communicative of Dawson's Creek. The actresses became adjacent erstwhile Philipps joined the WB bid successful 2001.

"Someone had said, 'When you 2 meet, determination is going to beryllium a chemic reaction,'" Williams recalled successful a 2018 interrogation with People. "I had been truly excited for this miss to onshore successful Wilmington. We became inseparable and I fell successful emotion with her."

And their clip moving unneurotic connected the bid was formative.

"My representation of being with her past doesn't person thing to bash with the amusement oregon working, but it was connected our clip off," Philipps told Entertainment Weekly. "It was talking connected the structure each nighttime agelong and it was backmost erstwhile breadstuff was inactive good to eat. It was copious amounts of bread. That's what I remember: an endless speech implicit aggregate breadstuff baskets."

In the years since Dawson's Creek ended successful 2003, they person remained 1 of Hollywood's closest brace of friends, and it was Philipps who rushed to Williams' Brooklyn enactment location aft her erstwhile spouse Heath Ledger was recovered dormant successful his flat of an accidental overdose successful 2008. 

"I said to her recently, 'You person truly saved maine from ever being lonely due to the fact that you are ever close there,'" Williams told People successful 2018. "We are truthful adjacent and tin archer each different everything. I don't cognize what I would beryllium oregon who I would beryllium without Busy."

Philipps, who is godmother to Matlida Ledger, was Williams' go-to day to grant shows for years, with each acquisition reminding the duo however acold they person come.

"I deliberation for her, and for maine too, to person each different by our sides arsenic we spell done this process, and erstwhile she's been nominated, oregon connected different reddish carpets that we've done together, oregon events, it's conscionable large to person idiosyncratic that tin beryllium your touchstone for reality," Philipps explained to Elle. "Maybe I'm giving distant a secret, but we ever effort close earlier we get to 1 of these reddish carpets to conscionable look astatine each different and say, 'Don't hide however fortunate we are. This is our beingness now.'"

House Stark forever!

While Sansa and Arya whitethorn not person ever had the champion sister relationship, Turner and Williams forged an unbreakable enslaved erstwhile they began filming the HBO series, with Turner calling them "pretty overmuch champion friends" from the infinitesimal they wrapped their chemistry read.

That feeling was mutual. "I thought Sophie was the coolest happening I'd ever seen," Maisie recalled to Rolling Stone. "I get wherefore they bash chemistry reads, due to the fact that erstwhile it's right, it's truthful right. Like, we're champion friends. And they could spot that each those years ago, and it indispensable person been existent magic watching these 2 girls person the champion clip together."

As they grew up successful beforehand of the world, the 2 relied connected each different to woody with the pitfalls that travel with fame.

"Maisie is decidedly my protector and I'm hers, too," Turner told Glamour UK. "I cognize if thing happened...she'd spell brainsick and support me." Williams echoed the sentiment, sharing, "She truly helped maine done immoderate messy breakups and immoderate person breakups."

To commemorate their bond, the duo got matching tattoos of the day they some learned they had been formed connected GoT.

"She's 1 of my champion friends successful the full world," Sophie, who had Maisie serve arsenic maid of grant astatine her 2019 wedding to Joe Jonas, antecedently told E! News. "With Thrones, we were ever planning, from play one, similar if we marque it each the mode through, hopefully we could each get a matching thing."

It's hard to ideate 2 radical having much amusive than JD and Turk connected Scrubs, but, it turns out, their real-life counterparts person adjacent amended banter IRL than they did connected the NBC medical sitcom. 

Braff and Faison met for the archetypal clip astatine the array work for the show, with Faison admitting successful a 2020 interrogation with BUILD Series that the moment reminded him of the feeling helium got gathering his woman for the archetypal time. "That was precisely the vigor we felt erstwhile we met," Faison said. "He is my champion friend. It is legit erstwhile I accidental this." The brace went onto unrecorded unneurotic successful New York City after Scrubs' archetypal season, which, helium said, "cemented it. That's erstwhile we knew we were going to beryllium unneurotic forever."

While Scrubs ended successful 2010, the champion friends professionally reunited during the pandemic to motorboat their podcast, Fake Doctors, Real Friends, which rapidly became a hit. The 2 present unrecorded conscionable a fewer streets distant from each different successful Los Angeles, according to GQ, and Faison joined his woman Cacee Cobb astatine champion antheral Braff's location successful 2012.

Much to the delight of their fans, The Office alums and real-life exes are ever speedy to marque airy of their "complicated" idiosyncratic and nonrecreational relationship, adjacent taking the signifier astatine the 2022 Emmys for a hilarious bit.

Even though their romance fizzled successful 2007, Kaling and Novak grew adjacent person arsenic confidants.

"He is simply a fantastic person and he's godparent of some of my kids and helium loves children and they're truthful attached to him," Kaling explained connected The Drew Barrymore Show past year. "He's truly a portion of our family. But we've known each different for a long, agelong time."

Mindy continued, "I deliberation anyone who's been friends with idiosyncratic for 18, 19 years and astatine 1 constituent dated and present doesn't, they possibly recognize this."

While their characters clashed passim Veronica Mars' three-season run, Bell and Hansen rapidly became champion friends erstwhile they met successful 2004.

"I person known Ryan Hansen since we were baby-people," Bell wrote successful an Instagram station for Hansen's day successful 2021. "He was my arch-nemesis connected Veronica Mars, but became my champion person successful existent life. After VMars we became roommates, and (self-proclaimed) brothers. We bent retired astir each time due to the fact that we emotion hanging retired together."

Hansen is the godfather to Bell's 2 daughters with Dax Shepard, and his wife, Amy Hansen, was the witnesser astatine their 2013 wedding. Their families often spell connected vacations unneurotic and were successful each other's COVID pods during the pandemic, starring Bell to dub the radical "super spouses."

"To accidental I emotion having him successful my beingness is an understatement," The Good Place prima wrote successful different day tribute to Hansen. "I simply would not beryllium the idiosyncratic I americium contiguous without his relationship and the radical helium has brought into my life." What a Marshmallow. 

Jonathan Groff isn't the lone co-star that became 1 of Michele's closest friends arsenic the Glee prima formed a adjacent enslaved with Criss erstwhile helium joined the Fox musical's formed successful its 2nd season, adjacent going connected circuit unneurotic successful 2018.

"Darren's spontaneity truly does propulsion maine to bash things I would ne'er bash before, and it truly builds up my assurance a lot, whether oregon not helium knows that," Michele told Billboard astatine the time. "So I'm precise grateful for him and his friendship. We're some precise ambitious people, truthful this conscionable feels similar a precise earthy happening for america to beryllium doing successful our careers and successful our friendship. And it feels large to consciousness similar I'm getting to spot a antithetic broadside of myself on the way."

The brace bask a sibling dynamic, with Criss admitting to The Los Angeles Times that making amusive of Michele is "one of my favourite pasttimes, due to the fact that I emotion Lea and attraction astir her and americium inspired by her talent. And that conscionable makes her much susceptible to my joking."

And erstwhile Michele made her triumphant instrumentality to Broadway in Funny Girl in October 2022, Criss and his wife, Mia, were successful the assemblage to enactment her.

"The magnitude of times this feline has seen maine sing 'Don't Rain On My Parade,'" Michele aboriginal captioned an Instagram station of the saccharine moment. "I emotion you @darrencriss and @miavoncriss."