Stars Get Real About Their Worst Onscreen Kisses

Credit: Shutterstock (3)

Stars Get Real About Their Worst Onscreen Kisses: Kate Hudson, Miles Teller, Emma Watson, More

Not afraid to kiss and inform! Kate Hudson, Miles Teller and Emma Watson are only a few of the celebs who’ve spoken out about their worst onscreen kissing experiences, revealing some smooches aren’t all as magical as they appear.

“Honestly, I feel like I kind of haven’t had the best kissers,” Hudson advised Gwyneth Paltrow on an October 2020 episode of “The Goop Podcast,” earlier than pointing to buddy Matthew McConaughey as her worst.

The actress, who starred in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Fools Gold with the Texas native, defined that “there’s just something happening and there’s like snot or wind” each time the 2 attempt to make out.

“Like when we were kissing, like, in the end of Fool’s Gold, we’re like in the ocean, we had the plane crash, he just had snot all over his face,” she added.

One month later, the Greenlights writer responded to his costar’s feedback, telling InModel that “many” of the pair’s kisses “have been awkward” through the years.

“We’re nonetheless like, ‘Hey, can we ever get a kiss where it’s just like the temperatures [aren’t freezing]? The ocean’s not wiping us away? Nobody’s dropping stuff on us, above our head?’” he defined, noting there was a “lot of saltwater and snot” through the Fool’s Gold shoot.

McConaughey added: “So there have been all the time, like, parts that made it tougher … We by no means acquired to have our good romantic kiss.”

[jwplayer Z7IwTJf7-l3ahXupL]

Teller revealed that he’s had dangerous kissing conditions with longtime buddy Shailene Woodley whereas engaged on a lot of their 5 movies collectively — particularly The Spectacular Now.

“I would be drinking a Gatorade right before a kissing scene. She would be like, ‘Are you serious? You’re gonna kiss me after that?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I am,’” he advised Vulture in July 2013 of the pair’s pre-kiss banter. “She would take these herbal supplements, these Chinese herbal supplements, and they tasted like crap. And she would always eat them right before we had a kissing scene! We put stuff in our mouths so we could just offend each other.”

The Big Little Lies star agreed with Teller’s recollection of their set shenanigans, saying, “We’d have to kiss in a scene, and he’d be like, ‘Shay, you just ate dirt.’ And I’d be like, ‘Miles, you just ate licorice.’ It was just this ongoing back-and-forth.”

Watson, for her half, recalled not understanding what to do when she lastly needed to kiss Rupert Grint within the Harry Potter collection, having grow to be like household all through the franchise’s 10 years of filming.

“[It] was the most horrible thing I’ve ever had to do,” she said during a 2009 appearance on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross. “It just felt like incest. That’s the only way I can describe it.”

Scroll all the way down to see who Liam Hemsworth, Tobey Maguire, Selena Gomez and extra stars recognized as their worst onscreen kiss ever.

Credit: Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock

Sally Field: Burt Reynolds

“Oh, boy. Should I really name names here. This is going to be a shocker. Burt Reynolds,” Field mentioned of her worst costar kiss throughout a December 2022 look on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.  

The California native famous that though she dated Reynolds on and off for 5 years after assembly on the set of 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit, his kissing strategies had been missing. “I tried to look the other way and say, ‘That was just then,’” she defined. “It just was not something he did really well. Just a lot of drooling.”

Credit: YouTube

Kate Hudson: Matthew McConaughey

“Every time I kiss McConaughey, I mean, it’s like there’s just something happening and there’s like snot or wind,” Hudson advised Paltrow throughout an October 2020 episode of “The Goop Podcast” podcast. “Like when we were kissing, like, in the end of Fool’s Gold, we’re like in the ocean, we had the plane crash, he just had snot all over his face.”

Credit: YouTube

Gwyneth Paltrow: Robert Downey Jr.

The Shakespeare in Love actress pointed to her Iron Man costar as a not-so-good kisser. “With Robert, like, when I kissed him, I was like, ‘You’ve got to me kidding me,’” Paltrow revealed on an October 2020 episode of “The Goop Podcast” podcast. “This is literally like kissing my brother.”

Credit: YouTube

Ashley Tisdale: Zac Efron

The Merry Happy Whatever actress revealed that her shut bond with Efron made for an uncomfortable kiss when he visitor starred on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody in 2006. “It’s the worst because I’m so close to him and he’s like my brother,” Tisdale advised Elle in January 2020. “At the time, he was used to acting on, like, Warner Bros, which is The CW, and we were on Disney Channel.”

She recalled him making an attempt to kiss her together with his tongue, saying, “I was like, ‘Get away from me!’ I, like, closed my mouth so fast. I was like, ‘This is Disney Channel! We don’t kiss like that on Disney Channel!’ It’s just weird when you’re so close to somebody. We had already done [High School Musical]. I had known him for years before. That is why it was the worst. It’s just [that] we’re just too close.”

Credit: YouTube

Scott Foley: Tyra Banks

The Scandal alum named the supermodel as his worst-ever onscreen kissing accomplice whereas showing on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in February 2019. “She was just not into it,” he mentioned about Banks’ Felicity smooch. “I think it was her first onscreen kiss, and I was so excited about it, but it was … a lot bigger than it needed to be or should have been.”

Credit: YouTube

Morena Baccarin: Ryan Reynolds

The Gotham alum just isn’t a giant fan of puckering up together with her Deadpool costar. “I keep saying that kissing him in that mask is like kissing a giant latex condom,” Baccarin advised People Now in May 2018. “It basically just smells like rubber the entire time.”

Credit: GIPHY

Liam Hemsworth: Jennifer Lawrence

“Anytime I had to kiss Jennifer was pretty uncomfortable,” Hemsworth mentioned on a November 2014 look on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “When you look at it on the outside, it looks like a great picture. 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 disgusting. Right before the scene, she’d be like, ‘Yeah, I ate 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!'”

Credit: New Wave/Terra Firma Films/Kobal/Shutterstock

Dane Cook: Kate Hudson

The comic referred to as out Hudson for her dangerous breath when filming 2008’s My Best Friend’s Girl. “I think she purposely ate a feast of onions right before the scene,” Cook mentioned throughout an October 2014 look on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. “I had to burn her on that one.”

Credit: YouTube

Miles Teller: Shailene Woodley

Teller recalled that he and Woodley purposely ate completely different meals to “just offend each other” whereas filming The Spectacular Now. “She would take these herbal supplements, these Chinese herbal supplements, and they tasted like crap,” he advised Vulture in July 2013. “And she would eat them right before we had a kissing scene.”

Credit: Kobal/Shutterstock

Reese Witherspoon: Robert Pattinson

When filming 2011’s Water for Elephants, Pattinson had a “bad cold,” which led to an ungainly makeout session for Witherspoon. “He did have a very runny nose,” she advised MTV News in December 2010. “It wasn’t appealing. It wasn’t pleasant.”

Credit: YouTube

AnnaLynne McCord: Matt Lanter

McCord revealed that her 90210 love curiosity was “a really bad kisser [which] kind of sucks” throughout a March 2010 interview with HollywoodLife.

Credit: GIPHY

Emma Watson: Rupert Grint

The Beauty and the Beast actress recalled the uncomfortable lead-up to kissing her longtime buddy in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. “I was like, ‘Do I use tongue? Do I cover my teeth? What do I do? Do I go first? Oh my God,’” she told MTV News in July 2009. “I ended up pouncing on Rupert. I used to be so determined to get it over. After the primary take, he was like, ‘Whoa, there! Where did that come from?’ I used to be like, ‘Sorry!'”

Credit: YouTube

Selena Gomez: Dylan Sprouse

When visitor starring on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody in 2006, Gomez needed to smooch Sprouse and it didn’t go as deliberate. “I actually leaned in to kiss him and I had my eyes closed a little too early and I ended up missing, like, half of his lips,” she advised Tiger Beat in January 2009. “It ended up being the most awkward kiss in the world.”

Credit: YouTube

Alec Baldwin: Jennifer Aniston

The 30 Rock alum joked in November 2008 that his onscreen kiss with Aniston, when she performed a lady stalking his character Jack Donaghy, was not nice. “It was painful,” he advised New York Magazine on the time. “I mean, every man who’s had to makeout with her in TV and movies — I don’t know how they do it!”

Credit: GIPHY

Tobey Maguire: Kirsten Dunst

Maguire’s iconic Spider-Man kiss with Dunst was something however enjoyable for the 2 actors. “I was hanging upside down, it was really late at night, it was raining, and the whole time I had rainwater running up my nose,” Maguire told Parade in April 2007. “Then, when Kirsten rolled back the wet mask, she cut off the air completely.”

Credit: YouTube

Hugh Grant: Julia Roberts

Grant recalled Roberts being “very big-mouthed” after they filmed 1999’s Notting Hill. “Literally, physically, she has a very big mouth,” he mentioned throughout an October 2004 look on The Oprah Winfrey Show. “When I used to be kissing her, I used to be conscious of a faint echo.”