7 Actors Who Performed Love Scenes Share Their Most Embarrassing Stories

#1 Ah, the theater...

So theatre has to have the horniest men and women ever, and they all have to go and date each other. As the lights and sound person I tried to avoid it all, but I got to see everything. Our lead in the middle of the performance got a mega boner, like huge, so he jumped into my little box and hid there for a while. We somehow had so much improv on that fiddler on a roof that I had no idea what music and spotlight button to hit. Also the lead guy with the mega boner was my friend and crush so damn it was awkward. I should've probably done something to help him out, but his girlfriend was the other lead

#2 Just the right spot

A tamer story I guess, but in 2012 I was Lysander in a production of Midsummer Night's Dream, and near the end while we're watching the play within the play, Hermia and I and Helena and Demetrius are all lounging on cushions looking like happy cuddly lovers, and I run my fingers down the back of Hermia's neck. Apparently, I hit just the right spot because she went bolt upright, shuddered slightly and goosebumps shot down her neck and arms. After adjusting herself, she leans over and whispers in my ear "DO NOT tell my husband that happened"

#3 That's some cast party...

Most professionals can manage to separate acting from any real feeling, although theatre in general is full of drama (not just the on-stage kind) and sleeping around.

I've dry-humped, kissed, etc. on stage and never really thought much of it because it was my job. I've had a couple of colleagues get creepy (especially in the more risqué shows) but they're few and far between. As for interesting stories, one guy I worked with told me that on the last night of our show, during his big kissing scene, the woman he was working with slipped him the tongue. She'd been hitting on him for weeks and was generally pretty promiscuous, so it didn't surprise me. He banged her at the cast party (

#4 20 kisses later...

I was Claudius in a high school production of Hamlet and we were doing a rehearsal of the introduction of Gertrude where she kisses her husband. The girl and me were ok friends and we'd kissed on stage before so it wasn't a huge deal, except one day we get stuck in a loop where one guy sucked at remembering his lines so we did it like 20 times and on the third run she just started shoving her tongue down my throat every take. On take 7 I had no idea what to do, by take 20 I was confused and horny and had no clue what to do with that information

#5 A bloody kiss

I had a kiss scene in a movie where the girl punches me in the face off the bed and then follows me down and kisses me. About two takes in, she accidentally punched me in the face for real. Blood starts pouring out of my mouth, we actually have to stop to get me cleaned up.

#6 Voldemort gets awkward

I read an interview with Ralph Fiennes where he was asked this question. He said something like: "yeah, there is always this awkwardness with your partner as in: "sorry if I get aroused, also sorry if I don't"

#7 "I had peanut butter today!"

Not me but a friend of mine. He was supposed to do a kiss during this one scene, except just before their lips touched, the girl cries out "I had peanut butter today!".

Thank god she said something, because he was deathly allergic