Patricia Arquette Made a Pact With Her Actor Ex-Husband to ‘Eat Garlic If We Had to Do Love Scenes’ With Others; But Only She Followed

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/patricia-arquette-sex-scene-pact-actor-husband-1236298856/

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  1. > “I was married to somebody at the time and we were very young and impressionable people,” Arquette said. “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.’”

    > “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 continued. “I was like, ‘What?!’”

  2. Way to punish the other actor because you can’t trust each other. That’ll show em!

  4. This is all I’ll be able to think about the next time I watch Lost Highway.

  6. A friend of mine was a stage actor and he claimed to always eat a handful of Doritos before any love scene.

  11. The exception being Holes, wherein she ate some sweet sweet onions.

  13. I’m assuming the husband would be Nicholas Cage and the movie she did with Ewan Mcgregor would be ‘Nightwatch’ (1997/98).

    (It’s an ok, but largely forgotten serial killer mystery: As per usual being a Weinstein Bros production, it got heavily fiddled with)

  14. May have happened or not. But there are always three sides to the story: her side, his side, and the truth.

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