Inside Marisa Tomei And Lisa Bonet's Real-Life Friendship

Marisa Tomei and Lisa Bonet hit it off so great when they met in the late 1980s that they even became roommates and shared a home together in Georgia while they filmed the one season of "A Different World" they appeared on together (via Eighties Kids). That's right, it took only one season for these two women to forge a lifelong friendship.

Bonet famously became pregnant with her first child in 1988, and show creator Bill Cosby didn't want a pregnant college student on his show, saying "Lisa Bonet is pregnant, Denise Huxtable is not" (via TV Web.com). He turned Denise into a college dropout instead and eventually brought the character back to "The Cosby Show" and Brooklyn. As for Tomei's Maggie, she just sort of disappeared after Season 1 and was never heard from again. 

The same can't be said for the two actresses. That one year of on-screen college friendship turned into the quintessential off-screen friendship that spans decades.