Diego and Gael’s Gay Kiss Revisited

Mexican hotties Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna appeared on The Jimmy Fallon Show to promote their new movie, Rudo y Cursi. If anyone needs reminding, these are the two that locked lips in indie fave Y Tu Mama Tambien.

As big of a hit as that movie was, Bernal and Luna were still relatively unknown, so I guess that's why no one really cared about how it felt to kiss each other. They certainly didn't get the same treatment that Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall did when they were promoting Brokeback Mountain, or James Franco for Milk, with the press relentlessly hounding them, wanting to know how it felt to film a love scene with another man. The actors found themselves alternately dismissing it as no big deal and mock disgust.

And that's too bad, because judging from this clip, in which Bernal brings up his kissing scene with Luna eight years after the film came out, these two could've provided some welcome perspective to this line of questioning. Bernal asks Luna who the better busser is: him or Sean Penn, with whom Luna shared a kiss with in Milk. And it's not what his answer is as much as it is how his answer is delivered.  He's completely unphased by the question, and approaches the topic so comfortably and honestly it's truly a breath of fresh air.

Now, a word on the clip: if you are fans of these two, you'll likely enjoy the first six minutes. If you are not fans of these two, you might do well to skip ahead to the 7:00 mark for the exchange noted above.

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Comments

[michaelj72]

well i saw Y tu mama tambien here in mexico when it first came out, and you should have heard the reaction in the movie theater when those two kissed each other....quite a bit of audible disbelief, disgust and uncomfortable moving around in their seats. it was quite an unexpected scene and for those macho characters... well actually it was in line with a lot of the undercurrent of 'bisexuality' in mexico culture. which goes unacknowledged and untalked about.
in the movie of course, that kiss changed everything and 'ruined' their friendship - most unfortunate.

gael seems to want to bring it up from time to time in interviews too, it must have affected him. you can hardly catch it but diego's first reaction to gael asking who the better kisser is was "no mames", meaning "you're kidding", "don't mess around". he probably can't believe gael is bringing it up again. haha. one time in an interview gael said something like "we see each other every day, and i have to look at those lips...."

both of them are very very kissable