The relationship between PhD student and advisor is often much more like apprentice and master than the relationship between two actors/actresses working together.
Indeed, perhaps a more apt analogy from acting would be the many famous actors who trained under Lee Strasberg (Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, James Dean, Jane Fonda, Paul Newman, Ellen Burstyn and others).
Strasberg in turn was a student of the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavski[1].
Strasberg in turn was a student of the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavski[1].
And so it goes.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting