Getting back to breath issues, Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller were in The Spectacular Now, where building believable onscreen romance was clearly rough going. As Teller explained, “I would be drinking a Gatorade right before a kissing scene. [Shailene] would be like, ‘Are you serious? You’re gonna kiss me after that?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I am.’ She would take these herbal supplements, and they tasted like crap. And she would always eat them right before we had a kissing scene!”
One time Teller told Woodley, “Shay, you just ate dirt,” and she countered, “Miles, you just ate licorice,” and so on. And as Miles devilishly confirmed, “We put stuff in our mouths so we could just offend each other.” It doesn’t seem like this kind of exchange would leave anybody hot and bothered, so if they looked really passionate on screen, they deserve the Academy Award.