Denzel Washington And Julia Roberts
While filming the 1993 film The Pelican Brief with Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington made the surprising decision not to kiss his drop-dead gorgeous costar. He was probably one of the only men in the world who would have passed up that chance.
Washington later claimed that he didn’t want to film the kissing scene because he didn’t want to play into the beauty ideals of Hollywood. He explained that black women were part of his core audience and they were rarely seen as objects of desire on screen. Washington felt that he would eliminate a large part of his fan base by kissing Julia Roberts
Liam Hemsworth And Jennifer Lawrence
A key element of The Hunger Games trilogy is the love triangle between Katniss, Gale, and Peeta. Liam Hemsworth stars as Gale, the man who loses Katniss in the end. The actors share a kiss in the final movie, one which was apparently very awkward for Hemsworth.
However, Jennifer Lawrence made the scenes awkward on purpose. Since she and Hemsworth were close, she would purposefully eat garlic or tuna to make every kiss as gross as possible. Hemsworth dreaded his kissing scenes with Lawrence, which perhaps explains why some of their chemistry was lacking on screen.