What's your favorite actor-director pairing?
Peele and Kaluuya. Gerwig and Ronan. The Coen brothers and, well, lots of actors. Here are the tandems serving up today's best cinematic synergy

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(Clockwork L to R): Saoirse Ronan and Greta Gerwig attend SiriusXM’s Town Hall on December 09, 2019. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for SiriusXM), Willem Dafoe and Robert Eggers attend The Lighthouse UK on October 05, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for BFI), Rachel Weisz and Yorgos Lanthimos attend the 91st Oscars Nominees Luncheon on February 4, 2019 in Beverly Hills. (Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images), Daniel Kaluuya and Writer/Director/Producer Jordan Peele on the set of NOPE (Glen Wilson/Universal Pictures).
While filming the Oscar-winning Get Out, Jordan Peele told Daniel Kaluuya, “You’re my De Niro.” Meaning that just as Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro collaborated on film after film, so too would this filmmaker and his muse. It’s why they’ve reunited for Peele’s third horror feature, the upcoming Nope, and it’s why here at The A.V. Club we started wondering what is it about certain movie stars that makes a director want to cast them again and again? What’s at the heart of that synergy on either side of a camera? Then we decided to go a little deeper, as we’re wont to do, and come up with our favorite actor-director duos. So here’s the question: Which current actor-director pairing is your favorite and why? For the answers, just read on.