Favorite Actor Kissing Partners Revealed

Sure, kissing other actors is all part of the job — but that doesn't mean that work can't sometimes be fun. The 1988 movie "Big" had Tom Hanks playing a 12-year-old named Josh, who is suddenly transformed into an adult and lands his dream job testing toys. Elizabeth Perkins, who played Josh's love interest, Susan, had a good day at work when they shot their kissing scenes.

In 2021, when asked which onscreen kiss she still remembers years later — for the right reasons — on "Watch What Happens Live," Perkins named her scenes with Hanks in "Big." The kisses themselves were relatively innocent, since the character is technically 12, but Perkins was still impressed by her scene partner. "I had such a crush on [Hanks] at the time," she admitted, noting that while she was single, Hanks was then dating his current wife, Rita Wilson. "So he was completely off-limits, but he was adorable," Perkins added. 

She nearly had a different partner to pucker up with, however. In the same interview, Perkins said that Robert De Niro originally signed up to play Josh, but was replaced by Hanks due to scheduling conflicts. That's a big difference!