Henry Cavill has confessed that a kiss with his Man of Steel co-star Amy Adams felt a bit ‘too much’.
Cavill is widely recognized as a talented and entertaining actor, and for many, he remains the iconic Superman, despite the fact that the films featuring the Man of Steel didn’t dominate the year’s box office charts.
Although Cavill’s exceptional role in The Witcher garners much attention, there are other films he’s been a part of that have sparked discussions for entirely different reasons.
One such instance is from the 2013 release Man of Steel, where Cavill shared a notably intimate kiss with Adams’ character.
The duo appeared on BBC’s The Graham Norton Show, where Adams shared that she learned the ‘tongue’ technique from director David O. Russell while filming The Fighter.
She explained: “David O. Russell has a thing with tongue, okay? He likes to see it, like a 1980s music video or something. I tried that with Henry, it didn’t work! They were like, ‘Ew, what’s that?'”
Cavill concurred with Adams’ sentiments, admitting the kiss was ‘too much’.
“I was such a creeper for poor Henry,” Adams joked. She went on to say: “Like I know it’s all you know, but I talked to other people like, ‘Oh, Henry is beautiful, he’s such a nice guy,’ but then you say it in front of him and then you feel really creepy.”
Despite that potentially awkward filming moment, Adams has previously praised Cavill, calling him the ‘nicest person’.
“He’s the nicest person on top of being just a wonderful actor and wonderful looking,” she once told OK! magazine.
“He’s also got this great humility and he does a really great job in the role. He’s got a great sense of humour, but he’s not cheeky at all, so… I kind of wish he’d misbehaved!”
Cavill has previously talked about intimate scenes in various projects, noting on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that sometimes ‘a sex scene actually is beneficial to a movie’.
According to the Express, the 42-year-old elaborated: “There are circumstances where a sex scene actually is beneficial to a movie, rather than just the audience. I think sometimes they’re overused these days. It’s when you have a sense that you’re going, ‘Is this really necessary, or is it just people with less clothing on?’
“That’s when you start to get more uncomfortable and you’re thinking, ‘There’s not a performance here. There’s not a piece which is going to carry through to the rest of the movie.'”