There are few film kisses as romantic because the upside-down make-out from Spider-Man (2002), however Kirsten Dunst says the fact was far much less passionate.

Although Dunst briefly dated costar Tobey Maguire whereas capturing the superhero film, she mentioned filming their most iconic scene was “form of depressing” throughout a latest look on The Jonathan Ross Present. “It was pouring with rain, freezing, Tobey couldn’t breathe so it was virtually like I used to be resuscitating him,” the 41-year-old actor defined, per The Impartial.

Dunst’s assertion echoes Maguire’s personal recollection of occasions. In an previous interview, the actor mentioned he was “virtually suffocating” throughout Spider-Man’s kiss with Mary Jane Watson. “There was rain pouring down my nostril…after which Kirsten pulls the masks as much as [my nose] and it’s blocking the air passage there, so I couldn’t breathe,” he mentioned, per The Hollywood Reporter. “After which she’s kissing me, blocking the air passage there, so there’s nowhere else to breathe.”

He continued, “It was actually robust, really. It was actually difficult. They’d yell minimize, and I’d be [gasping for air], completely out of breath. It was torture. It makes you realise how essential oxygen is.”

Within the new interview, Kirsten Dunst defined that director Sam Raimi “actually wished to make [the kiss] particular” and had given her a “ebook of well-known kisses” to function inspiration. Clearly, Raimi bought his want because the romantic rain-soaked kiss has since been referenced on TV reveals, recreated by superstar {couples}, and impressed a preferred TikTok development.

Like Dunst and McGuire, Rachel Bilson and Adam Brody had been relationship once they recreated the kiss for a season two episode of The OC, aptly titled, “The Wet Day Girls.” And whereas Bilson as soon as described it as her favorite episode, she did not love filming that scene.

“Let me simply inform all people: kissing the other way up is extremely awkward,” she mentioned on the Welcome To The OC, Bitches! podcast in March 2022. “Not romantic. Moist. I keep in mind the style of the make-up washing, like, his mouth from the rainwater. I can nonetheless style it.”

I believe I communicate for everybody after I say, “Ew.”

This text initially appeared on GLAMOUR US.