Together in life and at work: how does that go?

The personal is never brought to work, because everyone feels that vibe, even when we argue about work matters in a healthy way. It's also a matter of ethics that applies to everyone on the team.

Work, on the other hand, does sometimes wander into home territory, but when it comes to creative questions that's acceptable, because this is what we live for. For operational matters there are clear boundaries.

The personal stays at home, and the professional is professional. On set we use fewer pet names with each other, and we try not to show affection in front of colleagues, so as not to make anyone uncomfortable and not to throw ourselves off either. And by being professional with each other, we also set the direction for the rest of the team.

In our profession it's very easy to bring the personal onto the set, and unfortunately it almost always hurts the vibe.

The vast majority of the people around us, both in life and at work, adore him. He manages to be the good guy even while being a pain in the neck. In life that's great, but at work the role of the bad, menacing cop mostly falls to me.

You could say he's the beloved daddy of the family and I'm the strict mommy.

It drives me crazy that she always turns out to be right, both in our personal life and at work. But there's nothing to be done about it, that's my cross to bear.

In our case it only makes the partnership stronger. The work is pretty particular: little sleep, lots of problems. At the height of a shoot you need a certain resilience: the ability to quickly solve the endless problems that keep coming up, to be the cog the whole machine depends on.

And if you've learned to lean on each other there, both holding leadership positions and carrying a lot of responsibility, then in real life your confidence in that person grows too.

It works the same way in reverse.

For us, work strengthens the relationship; we understand each other better. Our work is deeply tied to creativity, and where there's creativity there's a lot of room for conversation on an emotional, sensory level, where it's hard to explain yourself in words and text.

Things we could never have learned about each other in everyday and professional life, we learned in our creative partnership. That's why we often joke that we share one brain between us: we can easily voice each other's thoughts on any topic.

"Taking a risk and drinking champagne"

"Getting ready for the premiere together"