26 Celebrity Exes Who Had to Work Together After Breaking Up

After going through a breakup, even running into your ex is hard. The awkward glances, the embarrassing small talk, it's all something we'd love to avoid altogether. But, when you're a celebrity, you sometimes have no choice but to be cool with an ex as you might have to work together with them in the future.

Jennifer Aniston and Tate Donovan, for example, were together for two years before playing love interest in Friends. By the time Donovan was cast in the show, however, the two had just recently split up.

"It was just six episodes," Donovan told Us Weekly in 2018 of his brief character arch. "I mean, only because we were breaking up. We were like, 'Hey, can we not keep doing this? 'Cause this is really painful and tough,'" he remembered.

Other celebrity exes, on the other hand, work so well together it even makes us question if they were ever together in the first place. Zach Braff and Florence Pugh, for example, who reunited after their split to work on A Good Person, seemed like the ultimate director-actor duo.

"Every single moment she blew me away," Braff said of Pugh to SheKnows. "I mean, I suppose people might think I'm biased, but everybody knows she's the most exciting actress of her generation. She's just on another level. And this is a very hard part, this is not a part for a mediocre actor or actress and she just blew me away every moment, there's not a scene that has an off-note." Talk about an adoring ex!

Check out some other celebrity exes who had to work together below!

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