20 Things You Didn't Know About The 40-Year-Old Virgin

13. The Film Features Steve Carell's First On-Screen Kiss

The 40-Year-Old Virgin Steve Carell
Universal Pictures

Despite Steve Carell having a sizable number of movie and TV roles to his name before appearing in The 40 Year-Old Virgin, the role marked the first time he'd ever kissed someone on-screen.

Carell said of the surreal experience:

"I'd never kissed a woman on screen before, so the fact that I wrote a movie in which I kiss several women was interesting for me wife, asking me what my hidden agenda was!"

Thankfully it's probably fair to say that any awkwardness Carell may have felt about kissing several women throughout the movie translated perfectly into how utterly adorkable Andy is in those scenes - most of them, anyway.

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