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Matt Damon has portrayed several characters over the years and has given his best. However, not every movie left him with a pleasing experience, and something similar happened while filming the kissing scene withThe Avengersstar Scarlett Johansson that did not go the way one might expect. Damon and Johansson shared the screen in the 2011 biographical comedy-dramaWe Bought a Zoo.
Based on Benjamin Mee’s memoir, the movie follows a widowed father who purchases a dilapidated zoo with a challenge to reopen it to the public. While the film did pretty well at the box office and among critics, it has seemingly become memorable to its lead star for a whole other reason.
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Matt Damon Recalled Filming the Kissing Scene With Scarlett Johansson
A playful Agree to Disagree segment onLADBibleledMatt Damonto recount a memorable and awkward experience involving hisWe Bought a Zooco-star,Scarlett Johansson. He shared that they had to film a kissing scene for the movie.
After filming the scene, they went for lunch, and once they came back on set, the movie’s director,Cameron Crowe, had again set the camera to get a“tight shot of the kiss.”However, Johansson, who believed that they were done filming the scene, had an onion sandwich during the lunch break.
“She goes, ‘Oh, sh*t! I literally just had… I had, like, an onion sandwich!'”theJason Bournestar recalled her words. “I had to kiss Scarlett,”he said before playfully adding,“Can you imagine how horrible that was for me?”
Despite his initial shock that his co-star had an onion sandwich, Damon humorously added that the Oscar-nominated actress’ breathe still managed to smell“like roses.”However, it did not stop the actor from making fun of his co-star, as he shared during the conversation that he was making fun of her onion breath the entire time.
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Scarlett Johansson Claimed Matt Damon Cried While FilmingWe Bought a Zoo
During a conversation withPeople, Scarlett Johansson revealed how his co-star Matt Damon was on set while filming the 2011 film. She shared that her co-star was“pretty terrified”and would“cry like a baby and rock back and forth when the snakes were spread all over the set.”
The actress herself is animal-friendly and has had reptiles, cats, dogs, and horses, and hassaidthat it“felt like that zoo was kind of mine.”Johansson further said,“[Matt Damon] was definitely sweating a bit, and maybe the sweat formed in the corner of his eye.”
However, the situation was not the same for her co-star, who has admitted that he has a phobia of snakes. The Oscar winner admitted the same, saying,“I’m afraid of snakes.”He also shared that his co-stars “bullied”him into interacting with them.
We Bought a Zoois available on Disney+.
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Laxmi Rajput
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Laxmi Rajput is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, with over 3,300 articles published covering film, TV, and pop culture. With a degree in Broadcast Journalism and over three years of experience in content writing, she pivoted to entertainment journalism because let’s be honest, superheroes, sitcoms, and Netflix binges are way more fun. Laxmi frequently covers Marvel, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and popular TV shows, offering both fan-first enthusiasm and thoughtful analysis. Her work often dives into Marvel theories, revisits the genius of The Big Bang Theory, or unpacks the Netflix phenomenon of Stranger Things.
