Matt Damon has revealed why his on-screen kiss with Scarlett Johansson was “hell”.
The actors starred alongside each other in the 2011 film ‘We Bought a Zoo’, which is about a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.
Matt took part in LADBible TV’s ‘Agree to Disagree’ with his Oppenheimer co-star Emily Blunt, and the pair discussed whether they agree or disagree it’s only right to tell someone they have bad breath.
The pair both agreed that they should, before the topic of bad breath in intimate scenes was brought up by a producer.
Matt said: “I had to kiss Scarlett [Johansson] – had to kiss. Can you imagine how horrible that was for me? But we did. It was hell, ok?”
“What happened was we did a shot before lunch and it was like this nice little two-shot that ended in the kiss. And it was really good. And we went to lunch and she and I both thought it was over.”
“She ate like an onion sandwich for lunch. And she came in and [the director] Cameron Crowe had set the camera up and it was like a tight shot of the kiss. And she goes, ‘Oh s**t.’ She goes, ‘I literally just had I had like an onion sandwich. I thought we did this.'”
Matt went on to say that he made fun of Scarlett’s breath, before clarifying that “her breath smells like roses”.
Matt and Emily star alongside Florence Pugh, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, Kenneth Branagh and Rami Malek in the Christopher Nolan directed film Oppenheimer – which hit cinemas on July 21.
It tells the story of “the father of the atomic bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer – played by Cillian Murphy.
