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Joanna Lumley doesn’t think kissing Leonardo DiCaprio was fun. However, to be fair, the same pretty much goes for just about all of her on-screen kisses. She confessed that while she got the chance to exchange kisses with DiCaprio multiple times, the experience was akin to a dentist appointment.
“I did kiss Leonardo DiCaprio, about 15 times in fact,” she recalled (via The Telegraph). “But I’ll let you into a secret. It’s actually no fun kissing actors, no fun at all. There are so many takes and you both have to chew so much chewing gum. It’s like kissing someone in a dentist’s waiting room.” In an interview on “The Graham Norton Show,” Lumley also recalled how they had their “teeth cleaned virtually to extinction” as a courtesy to each other. But she did say that she found the actor “adorable” and that she’d always wanted to meet him. “He is incredibly sweet and charming, really good-natured, utterly humble and grounded – not at all starry. He’s an actor’s actor” (via The Mirror).
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DiCaprio, for his part, admitted that he enjoyed flirting with Lumley on-screen. “She is an incredibly beautiful, charming woman,” he told The Evening Standard, adding that the kissing part was never part of the plan. “We decided on those make-out sessions that we have quite spontaneously and she rolled with it. I loved that flirting scene we had together.”
