a) either substantial interaction between them b) OR both actors must be leads/protagonists with an important plot connection between them
The idea is to honour actor "couples"
• playing side-by-side and just go very well together
• or even achieve a performance together that is greater than the sum of its (two) parts
• or playing in a great "non-interacting" juxtaposition (e.g. superhero - supervillain, or a detective chasing a cunning criminal in a constant "duel" althouth physically meet only once at the end)
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(Divine, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce, and the rest of the Dreamlanders)
Gena Rowlands/John Cassavettes (Love Streams) John Cassavettes/Peter Falk (Mikey and Nicky) Gena Rowlands/Seymour Cassel (Minnie and Moskowitz)
Warren Oates/Harry Dean Stanton (Two-Lane Blacktop) Sammo Hung/Yuen Biao/Jackie Chan or any combination thereof (Wheels on Meals) Jean Arthur/James Stewart (You Can't Take It With You) Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn (Holiday) William Powell/Myrna Loy (The Thin Man) Ray McKinnon/Walton Goggins (The Accountant [2001]) Dennis Hopper/Dean Stockwell (Blue Velvet) William H. Macy/Joe Mantegna (Things Change)
Nothing to add to my list above, but Tom Noonan and Jennifer Jason Leigh are two of my favourite actors and have the rare and frustrating distinction of having performed in three of the same films without sharing the screen together, though their voices do in Anomalisa and they starred in Kaufman's original stage production, which led to their roles in Synecdoche, New York. The first time, somehow perfectly, was almost 40 years ago in the Rodney Dangerfield comedy Easy Money, in which Leigh played Dangerfield's daughter and Noonan one of his pals (along with Joe Pesci, funny like a clown).