"It Was Going To Be My First Time Kissing A Married Man" – 11 Kissing Scenes Actors Hated, And 6 They Absolutely Refused To Do (2024)

"Anytime I had to kiss Jennifer, it was pretty uncomfortable. She's one of my best friends, I love her, but, if we had a kissing scene, she would make a point of eating garlic or tuna fish or something that was so disgusting. Right before the scene, she'd be like, 'yeah, I had tuna' or 'I had garlic, and I didn't brush my teeth'. And I'd be like, 'fantastic, I can't wait to get in there and taste it'", Hemsworth told Jimmy Fallon.

"When I had to kiss Josh [Hutcherson] and Liam in The Hunger Games, I was like, 'who cares?' and I'd eat mustard and tuna", Lawrence later confirmed on The Graham Norton Show.

Lawrence struggled so much with the idea of kissing the married actor that she got tipsy before shooting the smooch.

"I got really, really drunk", she told The Hollywood Reporter. "But then that led to more anxiety when I got home because I was like, 'What have I done? I don't know.' And he was married. And it was going to be my first time kissing a married man, and guilt is the worst feeling in your stomach."

The two got on, with Reese saying that Rob was "amazing and wonderful and sweet and just the nicest guy." However, Robert Pattinson had a huge, nasssty cold that put her off her kissing scene (fair enough, really).

"I was doing it when I had a really bad cold. My nose is running all over the place, and it was in one of the additional photography scenes, and Reese had this wig on, and literally, I was wiping my nose on her wig", Pattinson shared.

They did kiss, in the end, so it wasn't a flat-out refusal. Reese did say though that it "wasn't appealing; it wasn't pleasant."

It wasn't personal, Butler had a cold at the time and Thandiwe (understandably) didn't want to smooch the runny-nosed actor while he was sick.

"Gerrywas very unwell indeed. So I wouldn't kiss him.Guy[the director] had to improvise. I don't know how he coped with those problems but it ended up being one of the most brilliant scenes", Newton said.

The actor chose to remove the kissing scenes with Julia Roberts in the 1993 movie for lots of reasons, he said. One factor was the response he'd received from another interracial kiss in 1989'sThe Mighty Quinn.

After The Mighty Quinn was released, Washington asked the studio to delete the kiss and decided to minimise the number of romance roles he took — especially as, in his words, "Black women are not often seen as objects of desire on film. They have always been my core audience."

"I have taken so much s--t over the years about not kissing Denzel in that film", Julia Roberts said of the absent kissing scenes. "Don't I have a pulse? Of course I wanted to kiss Denzel. It was his idea to take the damn scenes out."

The actor has since expressed his regret for refusing to kiss a man in the movie, saying in '93 that it "was very immature on my part... I was thinking, 'How are my friends in Philly going to think about this?' I wasn't emotionally stable enough to artistically commit to that aspect of the film… This was a valuable lesson for me. Either you do it, or you don't", Will Smith told Entertainment Weekly at the time.

This was 30 years ago though, and Willhas supportedLGBTQ+ rights since.

Aside from feeling more sisterly than romantic towards her co-star, Tisdale also shared that Zac took a different approach to on-screen kissing than she was used to.

"At the time, he was used to acting on Warner Bros, which is The CW, and we were on Disney Channel, and he tried kissing me with his tongue, and I was like, 'Get away from me!' I closed my mouth so fast. I was like, 'This is Disney Channel! We don't kiss like that on Disney Channel!'", she told ELLE.

At least, that's according to TMZwho say that Lohan may have had concerns over where Sheen's mouth could've been. Though the details are hazy, apparently both parties had to sign releases stating that they didn't have cold sores.

Ultimately, though, Lohan seemed to base her decision on Sheen's wild partying past. The film crew used a body double for some scenes, but mostly chose to write the kissing scenes out.

The actor allegedly didn't kiss Blanchett out of respect for his then-partner, Angelina Jolie. Cate told The Telegraph that the pair were "annoyingly" loved-up at the time.

Though the actor has had a stellar career, none of it has involved on-screen kissing. He says that this is due to his faith, and the respect he has for his wife and children.

"Life is about honoring God and being the best human being you can be and giving praise to God in everything you do. Killing people on screen— that's fake. That's not real. When you're in bed with another woman on screen — guess what? That's real. I don't like that kind of stuff. Especially now with kids, I don't want to have my kids say, 'Hey, Dad, what are you doing with that lady on-screen?'", Neal said when speaking toChristian Examiner.