Celebrities Kiss And Tell: Worst On-Screen Kisses They Experienced
1 Robert Pattinson Had A Hideous Cold
Advertisements
- Who said it: Reese Witherspoon
- The Movie: Water For Elephants
- In Touch reported that Witherspoon outed Pattinson as a terrible kisser, saying, “Rob possibly had the most hideous, horrible cold of any co-star I’ve ever had to do a love scene with ever in my entire life. He was literally snorting and snotting through every second of it—and it was not appealing.”
Advertisements
2 Kirsten Dunst Suffocated Tobey Maguire
Advertisements
- Who said it: Tobey Maguire
- The Movie: Spiderman
- Tobey Maguire admitted that his iconic kiss with Kirsten Dunst wasn’t the best experience. “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,” he told Parade. “Then, when Kirsten rolled back the wet mask, she cut off the air completely.”
Advertisements
3 Kissing Brad Pitt Was Gross
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Kirsten Dunst
- The Movie: Interview With A Vampire
- Dunst opened up to The Huffington Post about what it was like to kiss Pitt when she was just 10 years old. “It was horrible, and I hated it. Brad and Tom were like my big brothers on the set, so it was like kissing your big brother—totally gross,” she said.
Advertisements
4 Kate Beckinsale Shared A Dodgy Kiss
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Colin Farrell
- The Movie: Total Recall
- Colin Farrell talked about his uncomfortable experience kissing Beckinsale when he was a guest on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. “She’s actually the director’s wife. She’s married to the director. (It was) moderately uncomfortable… Kissing her was a little bit dodgy cause the director, her husband, wasn’t kind enough to leave the room,” he shared.
Advertisements
5 Jason Segel Tasted Like An Ashtray
Advertisements
- Who said it: Alyson Hannigan
- The Series: How I Met Your Mother
- Digital Spy reported that Hannigan hated locking lips with her on-screen husband, Jason Segel. “I cannot stand cigarette smoke. It’s like kissing an ashtray and he’s trying to be polite by having gum or mints, but it doesn’t help,” she once revealed.
Advertisements
6 Emma Watson Shared A Surreal Kiss
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Rupert Grint
- The film: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
- Rupert Grint gave People Magazine the details about his smooch with Emma Watson, saying, “I’ve known Emma since she was literally 9 years old and we had this very brother-sister relationship,” Grint revealed. “And it just felt very surreal. I have a memory of her face getting closer and closer. Like, ‘Oh my God.’”
Advertisements
7 James Franco’s Kiss Was Just “Meh”
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Zoey Deutch
- The Movie: Why Him?
- Deutch slammed James Franco’s kissing skills when she was featured on Watch What Happens Live. When asked by a fan what it was like to kiss him, her answer was revealing.“Meh. Yeah, very not memorable,” she added that Franco’s breath was “actually not good.”
Advertisements
8 Matt Lanter Is A Really Bad Kisser
Advertisements
- Who said it: AnnaLynne McCord
- The series: 90210
- AnnaLynne McCord had no love for her 90210 costar, Matt Lanter. The actress didn’t hold back when spoke to Hollywood Life, saying, “You know, he actually is a really bad kisser, so it kind of sucks.”
Advertisements
9 Harrison Ford Hates On-Screen Kisses
Advertisements
- Who said it: Helen Mirren
- The Movie: The Mosquito Coast
- Helen Mirren talked to BBC Radio about what it was like to kiss Harrison Ford, saying, “The nicest, sweetest guy you could want to meet. But he can’t kiss—he finds it impossible to kiss on screen.”
Advertisements
10 Kissing Ryan Reynolds Was Unbearable
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Morena Baccarin
- The Movie: Deadpool
- Morena Baccarin had such a hard time with the smell of Ryan Reynolds’ costume during their kissing scenes in Deadpool that she found it unbearable. “I keep saying that kissing him in that mask is like kissing a giant latex condom,” she told People magazine. “It basically just smells like rubber the entire time.”
Advertisements
11 Shailene Woodley Tasted Like Dirt Supplements
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Miles Teller
- The Movie: The Spectacular Now
- Miles Teller told People magazine, “Before our first kissing scene, Shailene took these Chinese dirt supplements and shoved them in her mouth,” he said. “It’s like a dirt pouch, and it smells like crap.”
Advertisements
12 Patrick Swayze Had Zero Chemistry With Jennifer Gray
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Jennifer Gray
- The Movie: Dirty Dancing
- Jennifer Gray didn’t enjoy playing Patrick Swayze’s love interest in Dirty Dancing, much less kissing him. She told Glamour magazine, “I was cast before he was. He came in [to test] along with a bunch of other guys. I didn’t think we had chemistry. But you either do or you don’t. It’s a weird thing, though. It doesn’t have to do with whether you like someone or not. It’s just you either have it or you don’t.”
Advertisements
13 Bradley Cooper Is A Wet Kisser
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Jennifer Lawrence
- The Movie: The Silver Linings Playbook
- Bradley Cooper told Graham Norton what Lawrence had to say about their kissing scene. “After the second take she [Lawrence] said, “You’re a wet kisser.” You don’t want to hear that. It was not a compliment.’ he revealed.
Advertisements
14 Zac Efron Slipped Ashley Tisdale The Tongue
Advertisements
- The accuser: Ashley Tisdale
- The series: The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
- Ashley Tisdale was a guest on Elle magazine’s Thirst Trap when she called out Zac Efron for being her worst on-screen kiss. “At the time, he was used to acting on like, Warner Brothers, which is CW, and we were on Disney Channel,” Tisdale said. “And so he like, he tried kissing me with his tongue, and I was like, get away from me! I closed my mouth so fast.”
Advertisements
15 Julia Roberts Has Big Lips
Advertisements
- The accuser: Hugh Grant
- The Movie: Notting Hill
- Hugh Grant revealed that Julia Roberts wasn’t the best smoocher because of her big mouth. He explained his difficulties with their kissing scenes when he was a guest on Bravo’s Watch What Happens: Live. “I’ve probably made too many jokes about the size of her mouth. She might hate me by now,” he said.
Advertisements
16 Kate Hudson Tasted Like Onions
Advertisements
- Who said it: Dane Cook
- The Movie: My Best Friend’s Girl
- Dane Cook revealed that Kate Hudson was a terrible kisser when he was a guest on Watch What Happens Live. “I did a movie with her, My Best Friend’s Girl, and I think she purposely ate like a feast of onions before our scene,” he said, “I had to burn her on that one!”
Advertisements
17 Angelina Jolie Was So Awkward
Advertisements
- The accuser: James McAvoy
- The Movie: Wanted
- James McAvoy opened up to The Huffington Post about what it was like to kiss Jolie and it wasn’t memorable in a good way. “Yes, we have a big old snog. It was memorable for its awkwardness,” he shared.
Advertisements
18 Kissing Robert Downey Jr. Was Like Kissing A Brother
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Gwenyth Paltrow
- The Movie: Iron Man
- Gwyneth Paltrow admitted during a Goop Podcast that her least favorite on-screen kiss was with Robert Downey Jr. “Like with Robert when I kissed him and I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,'” she said. “This is literally like kissing my brother.”
Advertisements
19 Selena Gomez Had Bad Timing
Advertisements
- Who said it: Selena Gomez
- The series: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
- Selena Gomez’s first kiss was on camera with Dylan Sprouse, and things didn’t go so well. She told Twist, “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 said. “So it ended up being the most awkward kiss in the world.”
Advertisements
20 Chris Pratt Made Jennifer Lawrence’s Stomach Turn
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Jennifer Lawrence
- The movie: Passengers
- Jennifer Lawrence opened up about what it was like to kiss Chris Pratt during The Hollywood Reporter’s awards-season roundtable. She admitted that it felt weird because he was married to Anna Faris. “It was going to be my first time kissing a married man, and guilt is the worst feeling in your stomach,” Lawrence said. “And I knew it was my job, but I couldn’t tell my stomach that.”
Advertisements
21 Nicole Kidman’s Kiss Wasn’t Romantic
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Hugh Jackman
- The film: Australia
- According to World Nation, Hugh Jackman once said about kissing Nicole Kidman, “[It’s] never particularly comfortable making out with someone in front of 70 people. That’s really not something that turns me on… [Nicole] and I talked about it separately… We said, ‘Okay, we need to really take this seriously.’”
Advertisements
22 Ashton Kutcher’s Weird Kiss
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Natalie Portman
- The movie: No Strings Attached
- Natalie Portman didn’t think kissing Ashton Kutcher was very fun at all. She told E! News, “It’s awkward! It’s always awkward. It’s just weird to kiss someone that you wouldn’t choose to kiss in your personal life.” Ouch!
Advertisements
23 Tom Cruise Was A Sloppy Kisser
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Thandie Newton
- The Movie: Mission Impossible 2
- Thandie Newton told People magazine, “Kissing Tom Cruise was slightly icky and sort of wet,” she said. “I’d really go home at the end of the day actually moaning about how hot it was and how many times we had to do it.”
Advertisements
24 Matthew McConaughey Was So Snotty
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Kate Hudson
- The movie: Fool’s Gold
- Kate Hudson talked about her worst on-screen kiss when she was a guest on the Goop Podcast. “The thing is, every time I kiss McConaughey, it’s like, I mean, it’s like there’s just something happening and there’s like snot or wind, or things are just… like when we were kissing in the end of Fool’s Gold, we’re like in the ocean, we like had the plane crash,” she said. “He just had snot all over his face.”
Advertisements
25 Jennifer Aniston’s Kiss Was Painful
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Alec Baldwin
- The series: 30 Rock
- Alec Baldwin revealed to New York Magazine that Jennifer Aniston is a terrible kisser. “It was painful. I mean, every man who’s had to make out with her in TV and movies—I don’t know how they do it,” he said.
Advertisements
26 Leonardo DiCaprio’s Kiss Wasn’t Memorable
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Virginie Ledoyen
- The Movie: The Beach
- Virginie Ledoyen slammed DiCaprio for being a bad kisser and was quoted saying, “I think Leonardo is a nice guy. But I don’t want him as a lover. There [was] no honest passion. No real sensitivity in our love scenes. In our underwater love scenes all I could think of was not drowning. I can’t even remember his kiss.”
Advertisements
27 Woody Allen Put In Zero Effort
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Helena Bonham Carter
- The Movie: Aphrodite
- Helena Bonham Carter dished to Elle magazine about her uncomfortable kissing scene with Woody Allen. “He tells you upfront certain ways of kissing he does not want. No exchange of liquid is permitted. It can be a bit offensive because he makes no effort at all. It’s like kissing the Berlin Wall,” she revealed.
Advertisements
28 Sienna Miller Had A Toothache
Advertisements
- The Accuser: James Franco
- The Movie: Camille
- ContactMusic reported that James Franco admitted that his on-screen kiss with Sienna Miller was less than passionate because she needed dental work. “I think we kissed once in that film and it wasn’t at all intense – there was no rolling around or anything. Sienna’s molar was giving her pain, so she called the dentist,” he said.
Advertisements
29 Blake Lively Was The Worst And Best Kisser
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Penn Badgley
- The series: Gossip Girl
- Penn Badgley appeared on Watch What Happens Live and dropped a truth bomb about his ex-girlfriend, Blake Lively. When host Andy Cohen asked him about his best on-screen kiss, he said it was Lively “because we actually had a relationship at the time. And then the worst? Maybe Blake after we broke up.” Talk about an awkward situation!
Advertisements
30 Jennifer Lawrence Had Tuna Breath
Advertisements
- The Accuser: Liam Hemsworth
- The Movie: The Hunger Games
- Liam Hemsworth had plenty of dirt to spill about smooching Jennifer Lawrence when he was a guest on The Tonight Show, saying, “She would make a point of eating garlic or tuna fish or something that was disgusting and right before the scene she’d be like ‘I didn’t brush my teeth’. I’d be like ‘great, I can’t wait to get in there and taste it’.”
Advertisements
