Vardalos had by no means starred in a film earlier than, let by myself accomplished a large kissing scene, so she requested Corbett if he may give her a preemptive smooch earlier than they needed to lock lips for the cameras.
“‘I am truly fearful about everybody seeing it, and may you simply—may you simply kiss me presently and let’s simply get it over with?'” she recalled telling him to 20/20. “And he is going, ‘At this time?’ And I am going, ‘Yeah, simply kiss me presently.’ And he is going, ‘OK.’ So he simply kissed me, presently. And I used to be like, ‘Oh, that used to be simple.’ So by the point we had been at the set filming it 4 hours later, it used to be high-quality. It used to be simple. I wasn’t embarrassed.”
They would possibly have sought after to present the remainder of the workforce a heads-up that they had been rehearsing as a result of, Vardalos added, “We came upon years later that the hair artist at the film had pop out of the make-up trailer at that second, observed us kissing, and went, ‘Oh, they are having an affair.'”
In the meantime, Vardalos insisted to Bobbie Wygant in 2002 that Gomez had by no means observed her kiss Corbett, no longer on set and no longer even onscreen. They might watch the film, she defined, but when a kissing scene used to be about to occur, she’d squeeze his hand and he’d shut his eyes. She’d squeeze once more to let him comprehend it used to be over, “after which he at all times turns to me and says [whispering], ‘That used to be a truly very long time.'”
