Yikes! Celebrities Who Are the Worst Kissers In Hollywood: Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Watson, More

Scarlett Johansson

Many actors would jump at the chance for a kissing scene with Scarlett, but her We Bought a Zoo costar Matt Damon joked that the experience was “hell” because of what she ate.

“I had to kiss Scarlett Johansson — can you imagine how horrible that was for me? It was hell!” he began while telling the story in a July 2023 interview “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.”

After thinking the scene had wrapped, they broke for lunch and Scarlett indulged in a rather stinky meal. “She ate, like, an onion sandwich,” Matt recalled. After the break, they were asked to reshoot the kissing scene.

“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!’” Matt explained, as he was “making fun of her onion breath.” The Oppenheimer star took it in stride, adding sweetly, “Her breath smells like roses!”

Emma Watson

When Emma Watson and Harry Potter costar Rupert Grint locked lips for the first time, the Beauty and the Beast star said that she really didn’t know what to do. 

“I was like, ‘Do I use tongue? Do I not use tongue? Do I cover my teeth? What do I do? Do I go first? Oh my God!'” she said, before adding that she “ended up pouncing on Rupert.”

Revealing that she was “so desperate” to get the scene over with, Emma added, “After the first take, he was like, ‘Whoa, there! Where did that come from?’ I was like, ‘Sorry!'”

Robert Pattinson

Many might dream of kissing the Twilight heartthrob, but costar Reese Witherspoon didn’t have the best experience while locking lips with him during Water for Elephants filming. “It wasn’t appealing; it wasn’t pleasant,” she said. Turns out, he had a terrible cold and a drippy nose. Yikes!

Jennifer Lawrence

Arguably one of the funniest women in entertainment, Jennifer Lawrence clearly wanted any kissing scene shared with Hunger Games costar Liam Hemsworth to be memorable – just maybe not for the right reasons. 

“Anytime I had to kiss [Jennifer] was pretty uncomfortable,” Miley Cyrus’ famous ex said of the Oscar winner. “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!'”

When rehashing what her former costar said, Jennifer told “Hot Ones” host Sean Evans that the bad-breath kiss “was not intentional.”

“It was just, like, what I was eating, and then we’d kiss! He should just, you know, get over it,” she jokingly said.

Shailene Woodley

Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller may have shared the screen on more than one occasion, but the Top Gun: Maverick star didn’t hesitate to throw his costar under the bus when it came to her kissing skills. 

“Before our first kissing scene, Shailene took these Chinese dirt supplements and shoved them in her mouth,” he said of their locked lip action while filming The Spectacular Now. “It’s like a dirt pouch, and it smells like crap.”