In this YouTube clip, Mary-Kate Olsen discusses her movie The Whackness with David Letterman, and mentions that a scene in the movie has her making out with co-star Ben Kingsley. Dave sums that up (quite accurately) as “You made out with an old guy!”
Olsen was 21 when the movie was shot; Kingsley was 64.
That’s got to be some kind of record.
Or is it? Is there another mainstream movie in which there’s an on-screen romantic kissing session with a larger age gap?
Harold and Maude (1971):
Ruth Gordon was 74;
Bud Cort was 23.
That’s the best I have, although having not seen the movie for 20 years I can’t say for sure they kissed.
Actors or characters? I’m thinking Buffy/Angel, Dracula/Winona Ryder, God/Sarah Silverman…
Catherine Zeta Jones and Sean Connery in Entrapment… hang on while I find out the age difference…
39 years.
I have not seen the 2006 movie Venus, with Peter O’Toole (~73 at the time) and Jodie Whittaker (~24), but I gather there is a little kissing going on. Some reviews say he kisses her on the neck. One review hints that Whittaker allows O’Toole “even more intimate privileges”. 59 years or so.
I was thinking lauren bacall and humphrey bogart! she was 17 and he was 46 in to have and have not, IIRC.
Sidney Walker and Meg Ryan in Prelude to a Kiss – 40 years difference.
The Ebony Tower (1984) had both Greta Scacchi (24) and Toyah Willcox (26) playing the lovers of Laurence Olivier (77). Which means their combined ages were 27 years less than Olivier’s.
In Circle of Two (1980) Tatum O’Neal (17) and Richard Burton (55) played lovers.
Whoops. That should be 49, of course. But Little Nemo has me beat anyway.
In Tough Guys (1986) Darlanne Fluegel (28) and Kirk Douglas (70) played lovers. But their characters’ ages were 20 and 72.
Yeah, I’m not so much worried about the characters’ ages, because as Krokodil points out, that leaves us with the spectre of 16-year-old Buffy Summers smooching 241-year-old Angel. But we don’t really have a ewwww factor at that, because it’s actually 20-year-old Sarah Michelle Gellar locking lips with 28-year-old David Boreanaz.
It’s been a really long time since I saw Harold and Maude, but I don’t remember an on-screen, lip-locking kiss between the principals. If someone can confirm that it happened, it would seem that’s the winner…
Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve in Deathtrap, but only 19 years apart.
I’m too lazy to pull it down from the shelf and check, but IIRC the closest you get is a shot of Harold pulling away from a kiss while Maude is blindfolded, but the angle is straight on to Maude’s face, so Harold’s head blocks the kiss itself.
Although I am pretty sure there is a scene of them kissing in the trailer (or a deleted scene, maybe) that didn’t end up in the film.
ETA: Yup, trailer. That bit is not in the movie though, pretty sure.
In the film Shortbus, Jay Brannon (23 at the time, I believe) and Allen Mandell (71) kiss.
A couple of centuries is no big deal. In The Hunger (1983) we had Susan Sarandon, whose character was in her thirties, kissing Catherine Deneuve, whose character was a five thousand year old vampire. But there was no ewwww factor because, hey, girl-on-girl action.
Not the “big” screen, but Television
Futurama
Fry and Lela… Fry is 1023 yrs old, lela is much much younger…
grin
FML
He was 44, she was 19, when production began in February 1944.