Back in 1999, Gellar and Blair’s onscreen kiss was a huge offer. And it won the award for Best Kiss at the 2000 MTV Movie Awards, with the friends recreating the kiss on phase.
Not in the script? That renowned string of spit that follows their kissing lesson. ” I forget who, however somebody stated, ‘We require to go once again, there’s saliva linking them.’ And [cinematographer] Theo [van de Sande] resembled, ‘No, it’s lovely.’ And I resembled, ‘No, it’s hot. I suggest, we’ll go once again, however I believe it’s cool,'” Kumble remembered toCosmo “So it was a happy accident. And it’s kind of been remembered for that.”
When it pertained to really recording it, Gellar as soon as stated, “Selma was afraid she would suck at kissing me. But she didn’t!”
Blair (who was really 27 playing the 15- year-old freshman Cecile) confessed to some preliminary nerves, however exposed Gellar had some too, stating, “Besides kissing my sister years ago in a game of truth or dare, I had never kissed a girl up to the point where I had to kiss Sarah. We shot our kissing scene on the last day of filming. And, it actually felt great. On our way from LA to NYC to film the scene in Central Park, I said to Sarah, ‘Tomorrow we get to make out!’ She was like, ‘Shhhh. Don’t speak.'”
For Gellar, the kiss, which was carried out in Central Park with numerous bonus and professional photographers around, wound up making tabloid headings the list below week. “[We] saw headings that stated something like, ‘Sarah invests a day in Central Park with a buddy,'” Blair kept in mind. “I guess they all had their telescopic lenses ready that day.”
