Winston Duke & Lupita Nyong’o

Sticking with Marvel, the 2017 blockbuster hit Black Panther might have been Nyong’o and Duke’s first time working together on-screen, but their connection goes way back. The Us co-stars and real life friends attended Yale’s School of Drama at the same time. Nyong’o even gave Duke a tour of the campus on his first day of school. The duo grew close, oblivious when they watched the first Avengers film together that they would be joining the cast years later.

Duke told Esquire that “[Lupita] and I became really close because we shared that immigrant experience.” He’s from Trinidad, and the Academy Award winner is Kenyan, but was born in Mexico. “We shared the idea of having really big dreams knowing that we’d left our own country.”