Many actors have needed to carry out romantic scenes with their costars, and a few of their companions have voiced their discomfort with the outcomes.
Kristen Bell obtained plenty of reward for her on-screen chemistry with No person Needs This costar Adam Brody. Her husband, Dax Shepard, had different ideas.
“We watched that scene collectively, the kissing scene, which I’d argue is the easiest kissing scene ever, ever placed on movie,” the podcaster stated on the New Yorker Competition in October 2024. “And my finest good friend, Aaron, from childhood, he goes, ‘Does she ever kiss you want that?’ No, I didn’t even know she may kiss like that.”
Shepard isn’t the one well-known partner who has opened up about feeling uncomfortable watching their accomplice’s love scenes. Maintain scrolling to see who else has been candid in regards to the awkward scenario through the years:
Jason Ralph and Rachel Brosnahan
Jason Ralph and Rachel Brosnahan Eric Charbonneau/Warner Bros. by way of Getty Pictures
Ralph made headlines in August 2025 after he appreciated a shady publish seemingly directed towards Brosnahan’s chemistry together with her Superman costar David Corenswet. (Corenswet has been married to Julia Greatest Warner since 2023.)
“It’s genuinely unhappy to see your profession being tucked out to be remembered as a cuckold as a result of your spouse couldn’t deal with herself together with her co-actor,” the publish that Ralph appreciated learn. “Like bro.. let’s have some self love and get up for your self man, go away her to be with him if she needs that a lot on the finish of the day.”
Ralph and Brosnahan didn’t publicly reply to the drama. Us Weekly reached out for remark on the time.
Debbie and Donny Osmond
Donny Osmond, Debbie Osmond Getty Pictures
When Donny appeared within the Broadway adaptation of Magnificence and the Beast because the villainous Gaston in 2006, his spouse allegedly had blended feelings when his character needed to kiss Belle who was performed by Sarah Uriarte Berry.
“You already know the kissing scene the place I drive a kiss onto Belle after which she slaps me?” Donny recalled throughout a June 2022 look on the “Broadway World” podcast. “My spouse hated the kissing scene however she liked it when she slapped me.”
Brenda Marshall and William Holden
William Holden, Brenda Marshall Earl Leaf/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Pictures
Holden famously starred within the traditional movie Sundown Boulevard alongside Nancy Olson. In August 2025, Olson opened up about her expertise working with Holden and their scorching chemistry.
“We liked to embrace – we liked to hug one another, and we liked to kiss,” Olson recalled to Individuals.
Olson acknowledged that their affectionate nature “didn’t lead wherever,” however there was an occasion the place it was too intense for Holden’s spouse, Marshall.
Olson recalled filming a scene the place director Billy Wilder advised Holden, “don’t cease kissing her” till he yelled reduce.
“We begin the scene, and we rehearsed it very nicely, however we by no means kissed – we obtained to that time after which that was that,” she mirrored. “However now we’re enjoying a scene. The digicam is rolling, and we get to the purpose the place he asks me what occurred, and I reply, ‘You probably did.’ And he takes me into his arms and he begins to softly kiss me, however pulls me into probably the most extraordinary embrace. And we stored this kiss going.”
Olson added that the scene felt prefer it went on for a great period of time, and the one that referred to as for them to cease was not the director.
“Lastly, there was a feminine voice under us who stated, ‘Minimize, Dammit! Minimize!’ And it was Mrs. Holden,” Olson stated, referring to Marshall.
Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell
Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell John Nacion/GG2025/Penske Media by way of Getty Pictures
Along with Shepard’s feedback about his spouse’s efficiency on No person Needs This, Bell additionally shared that her husband gave her suggestions whereas watching the scene at house.
“Even I can acknowledge watching it, like, ‘Whoa, that’s scorching.’ My husband stated the identical factor. Like, watching the primary episode he was like, ‘Oh, my God, I need you to kiss him so badly,’” the actress stated to etalk in September 2024. “I’m not attempting to be reductive, however I believe there’s a math to it. You might have two actors that know tips on how to stare dopily into one another’s eyes, and it’s a must to have the boldness to develop that and actually sit the anticipatory worth earlier than the kiss, which I believe is actually vital.”
Blake Vigorous and Ryan Reynolds
Blake Vigorous and Ryan Reynolds Gotham/GC Pictures
Vigorous confessed she had a tricky time watching Reynolds’ Deadpool intercourse scenes.
“It’s kinda torture today, as a result of I’m on a airplane and in every single place I look, each display is my husband in a intercourse montage all through the vacations with one other lady,” Blake stated throughout a June 2016 look on The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon. “As a result of all people needs to look at Deadpool on the airplane. Everybody. However for 14 hours, having your husband having mashed potatoes eaten out of his butt gap … as a result of that’s within the movie. It’s beautiful. It’s a merciless and weird type of torture.’”
Package Harington and Rose Leslie
Package Harrington and Rose Leslie Marc Piasecki/WireImage
The Recreation of Thrones alum recalled going to the premiere for spouse Leslie’s movie Honeymoon and sitting between her and her love curiosity.
“I went to see a film Rose did referred to as Honeymoon the place she spends half the film snogging with my good friend Harry Treadaway. About 5 minutes in I needed to shut my eyes as a result of I couldn’t stand it,” Harington stated in a 2019 interview with The Every day Mirror. “I used to be watching them play a pair on a honeymoon and it wasn’t nice, as a result of she’s an unbelievable actor and I used to be watching her pondering that she actually liked this man.”
Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann
Leslie Mann, Judd Apatow Lionel Hahn/Getty Pictures
Apatow is just not a fan of seeing his spouse get intimate on display, together with within the movies he has labored on.
“I’m at all times disgusted when she fools round with anybody,” the director advised Alec Baldwin on his WNYC podcast, “Right here’s the Factor,” in January 2013. “I bear in mind once we shot The Cable Man she kissed Matthew Broderick, after which once they parted I noticed within the dailies there was, like, a spit string that linked them for, like, a foot.”
