Marcia Gay Harden Reveals Her Best On-Screen Kiss: 'I Was Like Please Don't Say Cut' (Exclusive)
18.05.2023 - 23:17
/ etonline.com
Marcia Gay Harden isn't shy about her best on-screen kiss. While speaking with ET's Kevin Frazier, the 63-year-old actress is quick to recall her favorite movie kiss.«Ed Harris in. Bar none,» Harden says of her co-star in the 2000 flick.
While Harden notes that she «loves» and «worships» Harris' real-life wife, Amy Madigan, she recalls wishing the scene of their smooch wouldn't end.«I was like, 'Please don't say cut, Ed, please,'» Harden recalls of Harris, who also directed the film. "[Then he said], 'Cut,' [and I was like], 'OK.'«Harris is far from Harden's only on-screen kiss. In fact, Margaret, her character on, is gearing up to lock lips with someone new.»Margaret has this wonderful man played by Jeff Nordling… He comes in and he's trying to date her.
She's so sort of resistant, and then all of a sudden, they have that beautiful kiss," she adds. «I think it will awaken something in her that we haven't seen yet, although I don't think she's going to want to be any less controlling.»Aside from Margaret's budding romance, the attorney is adjusting to letting her adult son, Todd, who's played by Skylar Astin, grow into his own person. It's something Harden has experience with as a «hands-on» mom to three: Hudson, 19, Julitta, 19, and Eulala, 24.«I think that's one of the hardest journeys for parents to do.
Let me step back and let you be who you are and just trust that you're going to be OK,» Harden says. «They're not nice during this moment. They will not be nice… You have to go, 'OK.
I love you anyway. I'll be there for you anyway. I will love you to the end of time.' But it's tough.»Amid that «tough journey,» though, Harden's kids end up teaching her about life.«You want them to pass the torch down to you.