As a longtime leading lady in Hollywood, Nicole Kidman has had more than her fair share of on-screen kisses — with everyone from her ex-husband Tom Cruise to the late Val Kilmer. Now, she’s revealing which smooch left her with the ick.
Appearing on Wednesday’s episode of the “Las Culturistas podcast,” the Australian American actor bluntly recalled having a hard time kissing her “Big Little Lies” co-star Alexander Skarsgård.
Kidman made the confession during the “I Don’t Think So, Honey” segment of the podcast when guests vent about their biggest pet peeve.
“I cannot stand bad breath,” she said. “I mean, this is a dealbreaker for me. You could be the most gorgeous, gorgeous guy, and you come at me with bad breath, and I’m like, ‘no.’”
The Oscar winner added that if “I have to recoil, yikes! I’m out. You could not offer me enough money.”
Holding back no punches, Kidman brutally named her handsome former co-star Skarsgård as the culprit.
“When Alexander Skarsgård ate a falafel sandwich before we did the scenes in ‘Big Little Lies,’ I’m like, ‘No, no, no, Alex. I’m meant to be kissing you and into you — put away the falafel now,’” she recalled, adding that “bad breath does not turn me on.”
Nicole Kidman and her “Big Little Lies” co-star Alexander Skarsgård, whose consumption of falafel was apparently a turnoff for Kidman.
Kidman told podcast hosts Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang that “the taste of the mouth and the smell of the mouth is very important” to her.
“I’m sure he did not eat a falafel ever again. I said, ‘No more falafel. Nope. Not before you kiss, not before you make love.’”
Kidman and Skarsgård starred as troubled married couple Celeste and Perry Wright in Season 1 of HBO’s “Big Little Lies.” They both scored Primetime Emmy Awards for their performances.
While Skarsgård’s faux pas apparently left Kidman turning up her nose, she revealed which star she thinks smells the “best ever.”
“Rihanna,” she gushed. “We don’t need to unravel it or decipher it, just know it’s all true… It’s intoxicating, it is like, ‘I will follow you around.’”
Watch Kidman’s remarks at the 1:18:39 mark on the “Las Culturistas” podcast below.