Patricia Arquette ate garlic before onscreen kiss with Ewan McGregor due to pact with her actor husband

Patricia Arquette is not afraid to kiss and tell about her worst onscreen kiss — mostly because it was her fault it went so badly.

The actress revealed on a recent episode of Hot Ones Versus with her Severance costar Adam Scott that she once ate garlic before an onscreen kiss with Ewan McGregor due to a pact that she’d made with her fellow actor husband. 

“I was married to somebody at the time and we were very young and impressionable people,” Arquette explained. “We made a deal that we were going to eat garlic if we had to do love scenes, so I ate garlic before I had to kiss Ewan McGregor and I’m like, ‘I’m so sorry, but I told my husband I was going to have to eat some garlic.’”

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Her husband, however, chose not to skip out on the cloves before his next spicy scene. “Then he had to do a love scene and I’m like, ‘Well, did you eat garlic?’ He’s like, ‘I thought we were kidding,’” she recalled. “I was like, ‘What?!’” 

While Arquette did not explicitly state her ex’s name, snapshots of her and ex-husband Nicolas Cage — whom she was married to from 1995 until 2001 — were featured in the video during her response. Arquette and McGregor’s first and only project together was the 1997 horror film Nightwatch, which would’ve been shot during her marriage to Cage. 

Arquette later tied the knot with actor Thomas Jane in 2006, but the pair ultimately went their separate ways in 2011. Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Arquette, Cage, and Jane for comment.

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An English remake of the 1994 Danish film of the same name, Nightwatch follows young law student Martin Bells (McGregor) as he attempts to track down a serial killer while working as an overnight security guard at a local hospital morgue. The film, which was written and directed by Ole Bornedal, also starred Arquette, Josh Brolin, Lauren Graham, and Nick Nolte. 

Watch Arquette recall her worst kiss in the clip above.

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