I think for good actors it shouldn't affect their chemistry, but I think it's easier said than done.

My theory is great chemistry can come from two places.

1. They are sexually attracted to that person. (I am NOT saying they are getting it on, but it's there)

2. They hate the person. lol.

^ I agree, or else they are really close friends. I think that helps.xD

Have you SEEN all the Brucas eyesex? Part of that is because of the way Chophia [Chad&Soph] look at each other.

I almost said Yes, totally but it's funny, it's Chad/Sophia that made me say "it depends".

Obviously their off-set relationship proved their chemistry, but even after they broke up... They still had such amazing chemistry and I can pretty much guarantee they weren't all BFF with each other.

I think it all depends on the actors and the situations.

Like let's look at Sawyer/Kate/Jack - Not letting who you ship play any bias, you have to admit that Evangeline has chemistry with BOTH Josh [Sawyer] & Matt [Jack]. And both men are married, and Evangeline is/was [?] in a relationship with Dominic [Charlie].

Then you look at a situation like Dawson & Joey VS Pacey & Joey. Katie Holmes dated both James Van Der Beek [Dawson] & Joshua Jackson [Pacey], yet in my opinion, after the first, maybe second season if I'm nice, the chemistry between Katie & James [Joey & Dawson] just disappeared. They never felt like more than brother and sisterly to me and I've always thought that their personal relationship could have played a part.

So I guess it all depends! It's easier to have insane chemistry with someone even if you're strictly platonic, when you've never been intimate with them. BUT, there are still those rare few that can continue to have great chemistry even if they don't get along very well with their co-star.

:o Sorry for the essay ;)

there are still those rare few that can continue to have great chemistry even if they don't get along very well with their co-star.

Exactly why I said

'My theory is great chemistry can come from two places.

1. They are sexually attracted to that person. (I am NOT saying they are getting it on, but it's there)

2. They hate the person. lol.'

:)

I think yes if they really get along(BFF outside the set) and respect each other it translates into the characters and makes it more real and natural.

Definitely.

My theory is great chemistry can come from two places.

1. They are sexually attracted to that person. (I am NOT saying they are getting it on, but it's there)

2. They hate the person. lol.

LMAO. love your theory,Lucy.

My theory is great chemistry can come from two places.

1. They are sexually attracted to that person. (I am NOT saying they are getting it on, but it's there)

2. They hate the person. lol.

I completely agree.

else they are really close friends

I agree.

I think it all comes down to how the people get along in "real life". I just don't think if two people hate each other or just don't jell, that they will be able to make a believeable couple or romance in a TV show. However, if two people are great friends in the "real world" or just get along together, or have sexual tension or whatever, I think it will show onscreen, which makes people see the romance going on and and makes it more believeable to people.

It helps if they're close friends, but I'm not one of those crazy fangirls who wants the actors to be a couple too.

Unless they're really, really brilliant actors.

Rachel MacAdams totally hated Ryan Gosling at the beginning, but their acting made them a wonderful couple on screen from the very first scene!

Jennifer Morrison & Hugh Laurie have no chemistry in real life but the eye sex of House & Cameron - priceless!

I think it definitely plays a part. If they have strong feelings for each other good or bad, that will set up chemistry on-screen. Now some really great actors may be able to fake it and feel completely indifferent, but I think what makes actors great is their ability to connect to a character, to make the character a part of themselves so much that they are effortlessly who they portray, and chemistry has a lot to do with that.

yep!

IMO the relationship between the actors affect greatly the chemistry on the set, in good and bad. If two actors are together in real life their chemistry on screen is more real and good - Seth & Summer. But, on the other hand, if two actors have a bad relationship or aren't friends their chemistry diminish greatly. An example are Luke & Lorelai, since I first time I watched Gilmore Girls I never liked Luke & Lorelai together, there chemistry felt so forced, while I liked Christopher/Lorelai. Years later, after GG had ended I read an interview that stated that Lauren Graham & Scott Patterson weren't ''friends'' and in some way this affected their chemistry on set IMO.

But i think mostly it does