Damon, 52, who starred alongside the actress within the 2011 comedy, We Bought A Zoo, spoke concerning the scene throughout a sport he and his Oppenheimer co-star Emily Blunt participated in for LadBible.
When the off-camera hosts requested him and Blunt whether or not “you should tell someone if they have bad breath”, the pair agreed that slightly than telling somebody instantly, they'd subtly provide them some chewing gum as an alternative.
Damon then recalled having to unexpectedly kiss Johansson within the scene.
“Can you imagine how horrible that was for me?!” he joked.
He elaborated: “We went to lunch, and she and I both thought it was over. She ate an onion sandwich for lunch and she came in and Cameron Crowe had set the camera up and it was a tight shot of the kiss, and she goes, ‘Oh sh**, I literally just had an onion sandwich!’”
Asked by Blunt whether or not he was nonetheless “slightly aroused” when kissing the actress, Damon jokingly replied: “I was making fun of her the entire time about her onion breath, which I didn’t even smell… because her breath smells like roses.”
The Oscar-winner stars as Lt Leslie Groves Jr, director of the Manhattan Project, in Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer, which is about to be this summer time’s blockbuster.
The film additionally stars Peaky Blinders actor Cillian Murphy within the lead because the “father of the atomic bomb”.
Damon admitted he was all set to take a break from performing when he was provided the position, however he and his spouse of 18 years, Luciana Barroso, made a deal that he’d put his hiatus plans on maintain if the filmmaker was an award-winning director.
He informed Entertainment Tonight: “I had been in Interstellar and then Chris put me on ice for a couple of movies. So I wasn’t in the rotation, but I actually negotiated in couples therapy – this is a true story – the one caveat to my taking time off was if Chris Nolan called.”
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