According to Rupert Grint, kissing Emma Watson in Harry Potter isn’t exactly all that it’s cracked up to be. The actor, who starred along-side Emma for around ten years, told reporters recently about the grossness involved in sucking face with his hot co-star:

The hardest thing for me are intimate scenes. Last week I filmed the long-awaited kissing scene with Emma Watson for Half-Blood Prince. Kissing her was always going to be strange.

We’ve known each other for 10 years so it was a bit like kissing my sister. We were both determined to get it right the first time, but our first try was a disaster because we both felt so self-conscious we couldn’t stop laughing. It took five takes in all.

Kissing Emma Watson five times? Shoot me with a blow dart.

Vintage video of Rupert and Emma, above.