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Kissing on stage or film can sometimes be fun, but as I
and others have posted here, it's usually not. To make sure the
audience sees everything, it has to be tightly choreographed,
which takes all the spontaneity out of it. If you don't believe
this, try the following experiment with your partner: work
out a bit of kissing choreography that is really tightly controlled:
the kiss must take place for such-and-such angle and
last for exactly X amount of seconds. etc. now do it over and
over, while a friend watches you and stops you every time you
deviate a tiny bit from the plan.
So you might ask, if it's not going to lead to fame and fortune,
and if it's not even all that much fun, why do people do
it? And why do people's spouses put up with it?
Actors — the ones who have realized they're unlikely to
get rich or famous — do it because they consider themselves
to be artists. They love their work (which is telling stories),
and they take that work very seriously. To noT kiss someone
when it says to do it in the script would be unprofessional, as
would be kissing in a half-assed way. It would be like a doctor
refusing to see a patient or a waiter refusing to serve a patron.
Most actors I know (and in a couple of decades in the business,
I've met thousands) take their craft extremely seriously.
(My wife was once in a show I was directing, and his character
was supposed to be really attracted to hers, and yet he
kept giving her these lame, chaste kisses. The entire cast and
crew were pissed off at him. It felt as if he was letting us all
down, making us all look bad by refusing to tell his part of
the story.)
And most of their spouses are also in the business, so they
get it. The spouses that aren't in the business tend to get it,
too. (or those marriages don't last.) They understand that
their husbands and wives are working hard (and with great
integrity) and pride, and they support their spouses in that
effort. For some, it is disconcerting the first few times they
see their husband or wife kiss a stranger. But people have an
amazing capacity to adapt. The fiftieth time you see it, and
note that your partner still stays with you, the kissing starts
to seem pretty ordinary.
Yes, there are celebrity marriages that fall apart. (This
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