Matt Damon recalled a less-than-enjoyable second when he needed to smooch Scarlett Johansson after she downed a smelly sandwich whereas filming the 2011 film We Bought a Zoo.
“I had to kiss Scarlett Johansson — can you imagine how horrible that was for me? It was hell!” he recalled throughout a latest interview with LADbible, experiences Page Six.
“What happened was, we did a shot before lunch and it was this nice little two-shot that ended in the kiss. And it was really good.”
Thinking they have been finished with the kissing portion of their filming day, the 2 actors went for lunch the place the Nanny Diaries actress, 38, ingested a pungent sandwich.
“She and I both thought it was over,” Damon, 52, mentioned, including, “She ate, like, an onion sandwich.”
But unbeknown to them, the celebrities needed to choose up the place they left off and movie the lip-locking scene as soon as once more after they returned from break.
“She came in, and [director] Cameron Crowe had set the camera up, and it was like a tight shot of the kiss. She goes, ‘Ah s**t! I literally just had an onion sandwich!’” Damon recalled.
The Oppenheimer actor mentioned he was “making fun of her” the entire time about her “onion breath” however famous that it was all in good enjoyable.
“Her breath smells like roses!” he insisted.
This isn’t the primary time Damon has made headlines for divulging his on-screen kissing experiences.
In 2021, Damon and shut pal Ben Affleck revealed that they have been initially presupposed to kiss of their film The Last Duel however the scene in the end bought axed.
“In the original actual version of that scene — the way that ceremony actually took place was that you kissed everybody on the mouth,” Affleck instructed Entertainment Tonight that October. “And we had that in the script.”
Damon then emphasised, “That would’ve been our first on-screen kiss.”
And in 2012, Damon complimented Michael Douglas’ kissing skills after they needed to make out of their HBO Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra.
“Michael was a wonderful kisser,” the Good Will Hunting star instructed Playboy that 12 months. “It’s not like I kiss him just once. We drew it up like a football plan.”
The Ford v Ferrari star mentioned that they wished to do an excellent job with their kissing scene.
“We both have a lot of gay friends, and we were not going to screw this up or bull[s – t] it,” he joked.
Damon has been married to Luciana Barroso since 2005. The couple — who have been lately noticed entangled in a real-life smooching state — share 4 daughters: Alexia, 24, Isabella, 17, Gia, 14, and Stella, 12.
As for onion-breath Johansson, the Avengers star wed Colin Jost in 2020. She shares 2-year-old son Cosmo with the Saturday Night Live star and daughter Rose, 4, together with her ex-husband Romain Dauriac.
This article initially appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission.
Originally revealed as Matt Damon: Kissing Scarlett Johansson was ‘hell’
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