Actors may be great at pretending — but just because a hot and steamy kiss looks convincing
on camera doesn't mean any of that heat translates to real life. From bad breath offenders to those
who just don't have the chops, here are the so-called worst kissers in Hollywood. Pucker up.
"I won't get mononucleosis, will I?"
Jennifer Lawrence has kissed quite a few stars over the course of her Oscar-winning career.
She's even been nominated for best kiss at the MTV Movie Awards three times — with a win in 2013 for
locking lips with Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook. But, sadly, it appears that her kisses
were the result of some really good acting because J-Law certainly isn't doing herself
any favors. On The Graham Norton Show, Lawrence admitted that her Hunger Games love interests,
Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, were wildly unlucky to lock lips with the star.
She revealed she didn't exactly pop a breath mint before the camera started rolling, adding,
"I was like, 'Who cares?' and I'd eat mustard and tuna."
Hemsworth, for one, definitely noticed, and later told Jimmy Fallon,
"Anytime I had to kiss Jennifer was pretty uncomfortable. […] If we had a kissing scene,
she would make a point of eating garlic or tuna fish […] something that was disgusting."
"Right before the scene, she'd be like, 'Yeah, I had tuna' or 'I had garlic and
I didn't brush my teeth.' […] Fantastic. I can't wait to get in there and taste it."
While Hutcherson hasn't commented specifically on J-Law's breath,
the actor did note that when it came to their scenes, her kisses were pretty messy.
During a panel at Comic-Con, the actor revealed,
"In the resuscitation there was a kiss and there was slobber,
and the slobber sort of got connected to my face."
J-Law even agreed, remembering specifically that
the snot coming from her nose got caught up in Hutcherson's mouth. Pretty gross.
For a time, Robert Pattinson was the sparkly-skinned vampire we all wanted to kiss.
The Twilight star shared some uber-romantic scenes with Kristen Stewart in the franchise
that made him a household name, but when it came to his project Water for Elephants,
Reese Witherspoon spilled the ultimate make-out tea. Apparently,
the dedicated British actor wouldn't tap out when he was sick. In an interview with InTouch,
Witherspoon admitted that locking lips with Pattinson was pretty gnarly, revealing,
"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. I'm talking green, infectious, disgusting — I'm not kidding!"
Vampires might have some level of immortality, but humans certainly don't. When they kiss a
sick person, they often also get sick. Still, Pattinson does seem self-aware. Metro reported
the star owned up to being a, quote, "really bad kisser" long before shooting Water for
Elephants. Nonetheless, the overall experience didn't seem to damage his bond with Witherspoon.
According to The Telegraph, their friendship was so strong that he allegedly moved in with
the actress when things blew up in the press with him and Kristen Stewart.
Could you blame Vanessa Hudgens for not exactly wanting to kiss James Franco on the set of Spring
Breakers? The dude was basically dollar store Riff Raff if Riff Raff wasn't already the dollar
store version of himself. We'd be remiss not to mention that Hudgens was maybe better used
to kissing her High School Musical co-star Zac Efron. And how could Franco compare to that?
"Bikinis and big booties, yo, that's what life is about."
While Spring Breakers may have been fun for everyone watching at home — especially
because we finally saw Hudgens and Selena Gomez break out of their Disney shells — apparently
Franco wasn't the best scene partner. According to The Queensland Times,
Hudgens admitted that she would have rather kissed her co-star Ashley Benson. She also told
Glow that after filming the three-way kissing scene with Franco, she declared to her agent:
"I never want to do it ever again."
Apparently, Hudgens isn't alone on that one, either. During an appearance on Watch What
Happens Live, Franco's Why Him co-star, Zoey Deutch, admitted that she wasn't impressed with
the actor's makeout skills. Then she described his kissing style as "meh" and not at all memorable.
"Just not, nyeh."
She also claimed his breath wasn't cutting it, either. Sorry James!
Shailene Woodley is practically Gwyneth Paltrow's mini-me in training when it comes
to offering head-scratching, alternative health advice. And this just might be the very reason
that the star — who's known for foraging her own wild food and making her own toothpaste — isn't
the best kisser…at least according to her Spectacular Now co-star Miles Teller. The
actor told Vulture that Woodley's breath was a bit of a challenge, during filming, explaining,
"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."
"You're absolutely beautiful. Oh my God, no."
Apparently, Woodley was a picky kisser, too. Teller claimed the actress complained when
he drank Gatorade before a scene. On the job, you've got to stay hydrated,
after all. But it wasn't only Teller's beverage choices. Woodley admitted to the outlet,
"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."
On the bright side, Han Solo didn't kiss his sister like Luke Skywalker did,
but we can't say much more about Harrison Ford's cinematic smooching skills. Apparently, the actor
isn't a winner in the makeout department, which is surprising considering his dating history.
He's been romantically linked to Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart for almost two decades.
You'd think it would take some top-notch smooching to land such a hottie, but
apparently, maybe not. Even several years before Ford would meet his future wife,
his Mosquito Coast co-star Helen Mirren publicly trashed his kissing skills.
In a 1997 BBC radio show interview, Mirren admitted the Star Wars stud was an all
around great guy, but lambasted his smoochability. She added,
"He can't kiss — he finds it impossible to kiss on screen. He's probably not very
good off screen either. It's not just me — other actresses agree. Whenever we get
chatting off screen and we get around to talking, we come to the same conclusion:
'He couldn't do it with me either!' He does try, but it is just not there."
If all that doesn't cut through him like a lightsaber, what does?
Julia Roberts' smile and laugh is just as well-known as the star's decades-long,
Oscar-winning career on the big screen. But when it comes to puckering up, her infamous mouth
apparently makes for a very awkward kiss — at least if you're asking Hugh Grant.
The British heartbreaker has spoken at length about how he deeply disliked kissing Roberts
on the set of 1999's Notting Hill. In a 2014 appearance on the Chatty Man Show, he claimed,
"It's a big mouth. I was aware of a faint echo when I was kissing her."
"I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
He shared the same sentiment the following year on an episode of Watch What Happens Live
and rehashed his old statements about how difficult it was to kiss the star
because of the shape of her mouth. As someone who once locked lips with the late
Heath Ledger in 2002's The Four Feathers, Kate Hudson seems like she'd be an excellent smoocher
by proxy. She's even gotten some practice on hotties like Mark Wahlberg, when they co-starred
together in Deepwater Horizon, and Liv Tyler, whom she kissed in Dr. T and the Women. But, alas,
Hudson's kissing skills are apparently lacking, even though she trained with some of the best.
And her My Best Friend's Girl co-star, Dane Cook, had no problem calling her out for her less than
stellar makeout sessions — but like Jennifer Lawrence, it seemed to be entirely her own doing.
During a 2014 appearance on Watch What Happens Live, Cook revealed that Hudson's breath was a
little offensive to work with when they locked lips on set. He said,
"I think she purposely ate a feast of onions right before our scene. I had to burn her on that one."
But, yes, this is coming from a guy who claims to have slept with, quote, "a few hundred"
groupies in his youth. Does that make him an authority or a liar? We'll let you be the judge.
If there were ever any Spice Girl who was good at kissing, it was always going to be Posh Spice.
Crazy Spice would've been our go-to guess for a runner up, since the idea of the word
"crazy" attached to any kiss sounds potentially thrilling. Rounding out our unofficial ranking,
Baby Spice and Sporty Spice come last only to Ginger, since Ginger bailed on the girls early.
Either way, our guesses are apparently completely wrong.
The famous lips that kiss soccer king David Beckham — arguably one of the hottest men on
the planet, proven purely by his H&M underwear collaboration — apparently need some practice.
According to the late actor Corey Haim, who claimed to have dated Victoria Beckham in 1995,
she's kind of terrible. He told The Sun at the time,
"When she kisses she does this little […] thing. What did it feel like?
Like a girl gnawing on your lip!"
"This really is where two become one."
But hey, if Becks can still be married to Victoria after 20 years, her kissing can't be that bad.
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