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Ethan Hawke says his first real-life kiss with Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t live up to expectations — and he’s still thinking about it decades later.
The Oscar-nominated actor admitted he was “disappointed” that his first real-life makeout with his “Great Expectations” co-star happened during a game of Truth or Dare.
During the Wednesday, Jan. 7 episode of “TODAY With Jenna & Friends,” the 55-year-old actor revealed his biggest Hollywood regret involved his first kiss with Paltrow, which happened off-screen – and not during the filming of their 1998 film.
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The Oscar-nominated actor admitted he was “disappointed” that his first real-life makeout with his “Great Expectations” co-star happened during a game of Truth or Dare. (Lawrence Schwartzwald/Sygma via Getty Images)
“I remember, to be honest, I didn’t even say this to her, being disappointed that was my dare, because I didn’t want that to be the way…I wanted to kiss her, but not in a game,” Hawke said. “I’m allowed to say that now.”
The candid confession came as Hawke and Paltrow recently reunited to reminisce about their early days together in another interview, where the pair reflected on life — and romance — before smartphones and social media.
Alfonso Cuarón directed Paltrow and Hawke in the movie. (Ronald Siemoneit/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)
“There was about a six-month period where I would run into you, at six or seven different places, at somebody’s house, at a play opening, at Corner Bistro, or this other bar. It was so much fun. There were no phones,” Hawke said to Paltrow in an interview with Vanity Fair.
Hawke went on to pinpoint the exact moment their first kiss took place — a casual, unscripted night that has stuck with him decades later.
“That’s the first time we made out. Do you remember? Truth or Dare at my apartment on Prince Street. What a highlight,” Paltrow said.
Ethan Hawke reveals his biggest Hollywood regret. (Getty Images)
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Still, Hawke couldn’t help but admit that the setting didn’t live up to the romantic expectations he had built up in his mind.
As he revisited the memory, Hawke emphasized again how he “didn’t want that [kiss] to happen in that stupid game,” as he “had different plans for that moment.”
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Later in the same interview, Paltrow and Hawke spoke in detail about their experience filming 1998’s “Great Expectations,” including the explicit sex scene she flat-out refused to do.
Paltrow and Hawke spoke in detail about their experience filming 1998’s “Great Expectations,” including the explicit sex scene she flat-out refused to do. (Steven Ferdman)
“Do you remember Alfonso pitching you the love scene?” Hawke asked, referring to the film’s director, Alfonso Cuarón. Paltrow replied, “Oh my god,” explaining that Cuarón had wanted to film a scene in which her character received oral sex from Hawke’s character.
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“I was like, ‘Oh my god, my father’s going to have a heart attack,'” she remembered.
In “Great Expectations,” a modernization of the Charles Dickens classic, Hawke starred as Finn, a painter who was fixated on Paltrow’s Estella.
Fox News Digital’s Emily Trainham contributed to this report.