Celebrities who had crushes on their costars

• Several celebrities have admitted to having crushes on their costars.

• "Speed" costars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock had a mutual crush on each other, but never dated.

• Ashley Greene had a "big old crush" on "Twilight" costar Jackson Rathbone.

"Speed" costars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock had a mutual crush on each other.

Reeves and Bullock met through their roles as love interests Jack and Annie in the 1994 thriller film "Speed."

In December 2018, more than two decades after their first meeting, Bullock revealed to Ellen DeGeneres that she had a crush on Reeves.

"I think about how sweet Keanu Reeves is and how handsome he was," she said. "It was hard. It was hard for me to really be serious."

The "Lost City" star also said that she would giggle whenever he'd look at her, but they never dated in real life. To this day, they still remain good friends.

"There was just something about me that I guess he didn't like," Bullock said.

Unbeknownst to her, Reeves also had feelings for Bullock.

During an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in May 2019, the "John Wick" star was surprised to learn that Bullock crushed on him.

"She obviously didn't know I had a crush on her either," Reeves said.

Reeves also said they didn't date because "we were working."

"It was nice to go to work," he added of Bullock. "She's such a wonderful person, a wonderful actress."

"Boy Meets World" star Danielle Fishel had a crush on Rider Strong, but he didn't find out until nearly 30 years later.

Fishel and Strong starred as friends Topanga Lawrence and Shawn Hunter, respectively, on "Boy Meets World," which lasted for seven seasons between 1993 and 2000.

On an episode of their rewatch podcast with costar Will Friedle, "Pod Meets World," Fishel admitted that her crush on Strong began "maybe later in season one and definitely through season two."

Strong, for his part, was surprised, saying: "That's not true, you've never told me that."

Fishel said that she was attracted to Strong because he was "so smart" and described him and "very effusive." The actor also said that she and Strong also formed "a very nice, deep friendship" filled with "meaningful conversations."

"He will tell you how he feels and he's very free with his compliments, but he doesn't throw them out willy-nilly," she said. "When Rider compliments you it is thoughtful, it has meaning, and you can tell... it's coming from a very real place."

Just like Ross and Rachel, "Friends" costars David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston had romantic feelings for each other.

Ross Geller and Rachel Green's on-again, off-again romance was one of the pillars of NBC's hit sitcom "Friends," which ran for 10 seasons between 1994 and 2004.

Schwimmer and Aniston completely shocked fans during the 2021 "Friends" reunion special for HBO Max when they admitted that they had a mutual crush.

"The first season, I had a major crush on Jen," Schwimmer said. "And I think at some point we were both crushing hard on each other."

Schwimmer recalled him and Aniston being flirty with each other when the cameras weren't rolling during the early years of the show.

He also said that they didn't date because they were never single at the same time.

"It was like two ships passing because one of us was always in a relationship and we never crossed that boundary," Schwimmer said. "We respected that."

When it came time for their characters' first kiss on "Friends," during season two, Aniston said that they "channeled all of our love and adoration for each other into Ross and Rachel."

"It was quite enjoyable, actually," Aniston said of her and Schwimmer's first on-screen kiss during an appearance on "Live With Kelly and Ryan" in March 2023.

Matthew Perry said that his crushes on "Friends" costars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow made it "difficult to go to work."

"How can you not have a crush on Jenny, and Courteney, and Lisa?" Perry said in a 2022 interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer. "So that made it kind of difficult to go to work because I had to pretend that I didn't have these crushes."

In Perry's memoir released that year, "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing," the actor spoke about being attracted to his costars, particularly Aniston.

The two met through mutual friends a few years prior to starring on the sitcom and Perry said that he asked out Aniston and she "declined."

"Fairly early in the making of 'Friends' I realized that I was still crushing badly on Jennifer Aniston," Perry wrote. "Our hellos and goodbyes became awkward. And then I'd ask myself, How long can I look at her? Is three seconds too long?"

Perry said that Aniston had a "deafening lack of interest" in him romantically, and his crush on her dissipated when she began dating Brad Pitt.

The actor also spoke fondly of Cox (Monica Geller) and Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay).

He described Cox as "cripplingly beautiful" and said Kudrow was" just as gorgeous and hilarious and incredibly smart" as a friend had told him before getting cast on "Friends."

Cole Sprouse's childhood crush was "Friends" costar Jennifer Aniston.

Sprouse recurred as Ben Geller, Ross and Carol's son, on "Friends."

"I remember feeling so, so intimidated by my crush on her that I completely blanked and forgot every single one of my lines, and she just stared at me," Sprouse said of Aniston during an appearance on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" in November 2018.

The "Riverdale" star added that a cameraman on set called him out for his crush on Aniston, which "broke" him.

Daniel Radcliffe had such strong feelings for "Harry Potter" costar Helena Bonham Carter when he was a kid that he wrote her a letter.

Even though Bonham Carter played the menacing character Bellatrix Lestrange in the "HP" films, Radcliffe wasn't afraid of her in real life.

In fact, Radcliffe revealed his childhood crush on her during HBO Max's "Harry Potter" 20th anniversary reunion special.

While reuniting, Bonham Carter resurfaced an old autograph from Radcliffe that he gave her during the filming of the franchise.

Radcliffe's autograph also included a heartfelt note for his costar.

"Dear HBC, it was a pleasure being your costar and coaster, in the sense that I always ended up holding your coffee," the note read. "I do love you and I just wish I'd been born 10 years earlier. I might've been in with a chance. Lots of love and thanks for being cool."

Tom Felton also had a crush on Bonham Carter.

"I had a little boy crush on Helena Bonham Carter," Felton, who played Draco Malfoy, told Metro in 2011. "She's a very beautiful woman."

Felton elaborated on his feelings for his costar in an interview with Evening Standard that year.

"She is completely unique, an English rose with a crazy twist," he said. "She wears vintage French clothing and she's very cheeky. Off the set it's all hugs and darlings, then when the camera starts rolling she turns into a complete psycho. It's amazing to watch."

Emma Watson said that she had a crush on Felton during the first two "Harry Potter" films.

Watson and Felton played "HP" enemies Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy, but there was no hostility between the pair off-camera.

In a 2011 cover story for Seventeen magazine, Watson said that Felton was her "first crush."

"He totally knows," she said. "We talked about it — we still laugh about it. We are really good friends now, and that's cool."

During an interview for "Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts," which was released on HBO Max in January 2022, Watson vividly recalled the moment that she "fell in love" with Felton when they were kids.

"I walked into the room where we were having tutoring," she said. "The assignment that had been given was to draw what you thought God had looked like and Tom had drawn a girl with a backward cap on a skateboard. And I just don't know how to say it, I just fell in love with him."

The actor also said that she would look for his number on the call sheet "every day," and if she saw that he was scheduled to be on set, "it was an extra exciting day."

"I became very protective over her," Felton said, mentioning that he was informed of her crush on him. "I've always had a soft spot for her and that continues to the day."

Watson and Felton have said that nothing romantic ever happened between them, but they love each other.

In his 2022 memoir, Felton said, "I don't think I was ever in love with Emma, but I loved and admired her as a person in a way that I could never explain to anybody else."

They remain close friends, long after the last "HP" movie was released, and Watson called them "soulmates" in the foreword of Felton's book.

"A Walk to Remember" costars Shane West and Mandy Moore had a mutual attraction.

West and Moore portrayed teens Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, respectively, in the 2002 film based on Nicholas Sparks' novel of the same name.

Since the movie's release, both stars have spoken about their mutual adoration.

"Everyone liked each other," West told Vulture in June 2021. "It was the opposite of the movie. Everyone got along and had a great time."

"And yeah, there was chemistry," he continued. "I think we [Mandy and I] both had a little bit of a crush, but then we were just there for each other in the most honest and purest of ways. That sounds incredibly corny but is true and rare."

Moore also gushed about her costar while speaking to Entertainment Weekly for the movie's 15th anniversary in 2017.

"Shane was so cool," she said. "Everything about him – the way he dressed, the little cigarettes that he smoked, and the music he listened to. He was the character to me and there was definitely a part of me that absolutely fell in love with him."

Years later, in honor of the 20th anniversary in 2022, Moore posted a video of her rewatching the film and reacting to key moments.

"I mean, can you understand why I had the biggest crush ever on Shane West?! Come on!" Moore said while watching one of the scenes play out.

Moore and West also spoke to People for the milestone anniversary and spoke about their effortless chemistry.

West told the publication that they "always kept it professional" because they "inherently cared about each other."

"I think when you do [have an attraction] and you're doing such a sweet story that it just makes it very easy," he said. "Everybody got along and balanced in reality. I was a bit older. Mandy was not 21, so it was more of a loving thing where we were just all out to protect her."

Hilary Duff crushed on "A Cinderella Story" costar Chad Michael Murray.

Duff starred as Sam Montgomery, the protagonist in the 2004 teen rom-com who fell in love with a high-school quarterback named Austin Ames (Murray).

"I definitely had a crush on him," Duff told Cosmopolitan in 2016. "We had a few kissing scenes in the movie and I remember feeling pretty nervous about that, but then we became friends and I wasn't so nervous anymore."

Ashely Greene had a "big old crush" on "Twilight" costar Jackson Rathbone.

In a 2022 interview with Insider, Greene said that it was "only natural" for the cast members of the vampire franchise to develop crushes on each other.

"Being around each other solely four or five years of our life, it's kind of bound to happen and obviously some of them turned into relationships and some of them didn't," she said.

Greene, who starred as Alice Cullen in the "Twilight" movies, revealed her crush on Rathbone (Jasper Hale) during an episode of her and Melanie Howe's podcast, "The Twilight Effect."

"Our first encounter, I was like, 'This dude's super cute and a Southern gentleman.' I was like, 'Oh, OK, I'm into it,'" Greene recalled. "He sings, he taught me how to swing dance. And he's supposed to be my lifetime love on-screen and I was like, 'This is gonna be easy.'"

Greene said that she felt as though Rathbone "had to have known about her romantic feelings, but "if he did know, he just wasn't into me."

"I also hadn't developed the skill set of creating on-screen chemistry and separating that," she said, adding that it was "a harmless crush."

Greene also said that her feelings for Rathbone didn't last the entire duration of the franchise because "at a certain point, you can only crush so hard until your dreams are just broken."

Lucy Hale had a crush on "Pretty Little Liars" costar Ian Harding at the start of the series.

Hale and Harding played Aria Montgomery and Ezra Fitz, respectively, on "PLL" and were the show's most controversial couple. The hit series ran for seven seasons between 2010 and 2017.

In an interview for "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in September 2017, Hale revealed that she had feelings for Harding during season one.

"Whatever, I was 20," she said.

Hale's crush on "PLL" costar Drew Van Acker inspired her 2014 song "Lie a Little Better."

On "PLL," Van Acker starred as Jason DiLaurentis, the older brother of one of Aria's friends. Jason and Aria had a short-lived romance

She also called her costar a "cutie."

In a since-deleted tweet posted in 2018, Hale shared a screenshot of the song and wrote: "Y'all deserve the truth. This song was about Drew."

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight that year, Hale admitted, "I had a crush on Drew. It was years ago."

"For years, people had asked me what that song was about or who it was about and I was like, 'I should just tell them,' and then I was like, 'No, I should just tease people for a little bit,'" Hale explained to ET. "So for years, I didn't tell anyone. Then finally the other week, it came on my shuffle, and I was l like, 'Yeah, this song is about Drew.'"

Selena Gomez adored Billy Crudup long before they costarred in the 2014 movie "Rudderless.

Gomez told Jimmy Kimmel in 2014 that she was obsessed with Crudup because of his role as rockstar Russell Hammond in Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous."

"I had a crush on him," she said. "I went through my whole 'Almost Famous' phase, so I was like Penny Lane for a good month."

"I wore the outfits and had the hair and the glasses and then I found out I was going to be a part of the movie [with Billy] and it took me a minute at first, because I kind of had a little bit of a crush on him!"

Gomez also told Kimmel that she didn't tell Crudup about her crush when they met through the film "Rudderless."

"He's a great guy," she said. "He's completely awesome. We had the best time."

David Harbour revealed that he has a professional crush on "Stranger Things" costar Winona Ryder.

Long before playing Joyce Byers on "Stranger Things," Ryder had a thriving film career thanks to movies like "Beetlejuice," "Heathers," "Edward Scissorhands," and "Girl, Interrupted."

Like Jim Hopper on "Stranger Things," Harbour also has a lot of love for Ryder.

"Professionally, I've had a crush on Winona Ryder for a long time," he said in a video for Netflix in 2022. "I grew up with her movies. To be let into that world is a dream come true."

Ryder, for her part, said that she admires her costar and said she loves the way he surprises her in life and in their work.

"We've spent seven years inhabiting these characters," Harbour added of working with Ryder. "And looking into each other's eyes and being on set for long nights. The weight of that I feel when I'm with her because I feel she's a big part of my life."

Lana Condor had feelings for "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" costar Noah Centineo, but they decided to keep their dynamic professional.

Condor and Centineo starred as love interests Lara Jean Song Covey and Peter Kavinsky in Netflix's hit rom-com trilogy, based on Jenny Han's novels.

During an appearance on NBC's "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" in January 2019, Condor said that they made a pact to stay platonic.

Prior to filming the first movie in the franchise, released in 2018, Condor said that the pair attended a hot yoga class and ordered pizza at his apartment afterward.

"And I felt something," Condor said.

Rather than act on her feelings, she said to him, "Noah, it's not going to happen between us."

"We kind of made a contract and set boundaries," Condor said, similar to their on-screen characters. "I'm so happy we did that because the movie turned out great.

Then in 2021, Condor told Entertainment Tonight that the trilogy wouldn't have been the same if she and Centineo dated in real life.

"We love each other in a very friendship way and there's real love there, but I think in an alternate universe — I can't even imagine — if we would've dated, I think it would've ruined the movies," Condor said.

Ariana Grande guest-starred on her longtime crush Jim Carrey's Showtime series "Kidding."

Longtime fans of Grande know that she's always gushed about her love for Carrey.

During an appearance on "Live With Kelly and Michael" in 2015, she described the veteran actor as "my childhood crush, my lifelong crush."

Grande also recalled crying when she met him for the first time.

"It was so weird," she said. "It was so uncharacteristic of me. I'm usually sort of chill. I'm usually somewhat contained."

"I was kind of nervous to meet him, you know, he's been my crush forever," she added. "What if he's not as nice as I'm expecting? He was so over-the-top nice, and perfect, and just as I hoped he'd be."

Five years later, Grande guest starred on season two of Carrey's show "Kidding."

Regé-Jean Page named "Bridgerton" costar Phoebe Dynevor as his crush.

Page and Dynevor's roles as fiery love interests Simon and Daphne on Netflix's "Bridgerton" propelled them to fame upon the release of season one in December 2020.

In an interview with "The Rundown," Page called his costar his celebrity crush.

"I'm gonna go with the joy that is Phoebe Dynevor, my Daphne Bridgerton, because how could you not be?"

Years before joining the "Fast & Furious" franchise, Helen Mirren publicly gushed about Vin Diesel.

"I'm a huge fan of Vin Diesel," Mirren explained during an appearance on NBC's "Late Night With Seth Meyers" in 2015.

Mirren said that her adoration originated from hearing one of Diesel's speeches at a ceremony. "He was just so smart and so funny and so cool and I just sort of fell a little bit in love with him right then and there."

In later interviews with Jimmy Fallon, The Hollywood Reporter, and People magazine, Mirren said she saw Diesel at a party, introduced herself, and "begged" him to put her in one of his films.

Sure enough, Mirren found her way into the Diesel-led franchise. She made her debut as Queenie, the son of siblings Owen (Luke Evans) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), in 2017's "The Fate of the Furious."

And in "F9," Mirren got behind the wheel of a car alongside Diesel.

"It was just great to be in a very small space with Vin Diesel for quite a long time," she told Entertainment Weekly. "I just loved every minute. It was great, hearing that beautiful, soft brown velvet voice really, really close, because we were squished together. Oh, I just so love his voice. He's got the best voice ever."

As for the on-screen flirtations between Queenie and Diesel's Dominic Toretto, Mirren said it's the result of "completely natural chemistry" between the actors.

"It was there right from the very beginning of my first meeting with Vin," she said. "And I just adored him immediately, and he's always been so kind and lovely to me."

Diesel has also spoken highly of Mirren, telling People magazine that she has "a charisma that is timeless," "looks to kill," and a "jovial spirit."

Long before costarring on "Succession," Justine Lupe had a teenage crush on Matthew Mcfadyden.

In a 2021 interview with Insider, Lupe, who plays Willa Ferreyra, said that she "was in love" with Mcfadyden (Tom Wambsgans) because of his portrayal of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 2005 film "Pride and Prejudice."

"I had my boyfriend labeled 'Mr. Darcy' in my phone when I was in high school because of his performance in 'Pride and Prejudice,'" she said.

Josh Brolin had a "man crush" on "Deadpool 2" costar Ryan Reynolds.

"I'm a massive fan of 'The Proposal,'" Brolin said during an appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" ahead of his debut as the villain Cable in 2018's "Deadpool 2."

The "Avengers" star was referring to the 2009 rom-com that starred Reynolds and Sandra Bullock.

When Fallon asked if Brolin had a "man crush" on Reynolds," the actor said: "I do."

"I feel weird admitting it in front of you because you're laughing at me right now, but I feel confidence," Brolin said.

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