Christina Milian on Filming the Best Kiss

Spoiler Alert: This tale comprises spoilers for “Meet Me Subsequent Christmas,” now streaming on Netflix.

Christina Millian and Devale Ellis knew their passionate kiss in Netflix’s “Meet Me Subsequent Christmas” needed to be highest.

“Probably the most manufacturers was once similar to, ‘Concentrate, guy, no force in any respect. Motion pictures are made proper right here at this second, so don’t mess this up. However there’s no force. However let’s carry the movie through making a really perfect kiss. Ok, move in the market, children,’” Ellis tells Selection of the force to nail that pivotal second.

So how did they triumph over the nerves and ship? “We were given threatened,” Ellis jokes. Acknowledging that the logistics of the shot required for an intense make-out, Ellis provides, “[Director Rusty Cundieff] tell us, like, ‘It’s gonna be lengthy, as a result of we gotta move round you guys thrice as the arena melts round you.’ After which Christina had, like, garlic knots that day.”

“Onions, garlic, sausage… I used to be like, ‘Able?’” Milian quips with fun.

Within the movie, Ellis’ concierge Teddy is helping Layla (Milian) on her adventure to land tickets to Pentatonix’s sold-out Christmas display. Layla hopes to reunite together with her dream man James (Kofi Siriboe) on the display, however as an alternative unearths herself falling for Teddy as they certain during the town at the hunt for tickets.

If the kiss didn’t already put sufficient force on his shoulders, Ellis was once additionally decided to verify this movie lives as much as Milian’s different Netflix rom-coms, 2019’s “Falling in Love” and 2021’s “Lodge to Love.” “I felt love it was once going to be a vintage primary, as a result of Christina’s been hanging out classics the ultimate couple years,” Ellis says. “So after I first were given solid, I used to be excited however worried as a result of I used to be similar to, we were given to do it proper.”

“Vintage primary” is true. “Meet Me Subsequent Christmas” garnered 18.1 million streams on Netflix inside its first week, debuting because the most-watched name at the platform from Nov. 4 via 10. “We’re simply glad that naturally other folks gravitated to this time of 12 months, taking in Christmas at the moment, feeling that pleasure,” Milian says.