Rupert Grint Didn't Want To Kiss Emma Watson In Harry Potter. Here's Why

Harry has no shortage of on-screen kisses during the Harry Potter films — between his eventual wife Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright) and his Hogwarts crush Cho Chang (Katie Leung) — but as he recalls, his kiss with Watson was just plain weird.

Radcliffe took a fairly gentle approach to their first kiss, but apparently, Watson really went for it. As Radcliffe told MTV News, "I've just been getting into so much trouble with Emma about this, because apparently I said in an interview that she was like an animal. I thought it was going to be a kind of a slow, sensual thing, and Emma really went for it."

As fans know, Harry and Hermione don't actually kiss, and their entire romantic entanglement is a vision produced by an evil magical object known as a Horcrux as a means torture Ron — but that didn't change how weird it was for everybody on set. Radcliffe echoed his friends' comments, saying, "It was kind of weird. It is a bit like kissing your sister. I'm not complaining! It was good. It was vigorous. For me, I wasn't too freaked out. But it's a bigger deal for Emma. I think it generally is a bigger deal for girls."

As for Watson, she was apparently so embarrassed by the scene that she made Grint, who couldn't stop laughing, leave the set. While Watson told J-14 that she was "proud" of the kiss between Harry and Hermione, Grint remembers that he was kicked out of the room: "When they were there actually filming that kiss, they did actually want me there to kind of play off something, but I just found that too funny. Emma sent me out because I kept laughing. It just looked really strange."

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