Shocking moment Bill Murray grabs Naomi Watts and kisses her during TV interview

Naomi Watts didn’t appear to be in on the “joke” when this Hollywood veteran grabbed and forcefully kissed her during a TV interview.

Bill Murray was feeling frisky on the latest episode of US talk show Watch What Happens Live.

While promoting his new movie with Naomi Watts, the comedian grabbed his co-star’s face and planted one on her mouth, shocking everyone on set.

The awkward moment came during the nightly fan Q&A when a caller named Amina from Washington DC asked Watts to name the “best onscreen kiss” of her career.

But before she could answer, Murray leaned over, pulled her head back, and kissed her on the mouth. When he came back up for air, he gave a thumbs-up to the camera.

“You’ve got lipstick on your face,” Watts said, pointing to the pinkish-red lipstick smeared across Murray’s mouth.

Bill Murray and Naomi Watts.

“OK. Did I go red?” Watts uncomfortably asked, while Murray added, “That was too easy.”

The moment has sparked a backlash online, with posters on Reddit denouncing Murray’s act as “gross” and “humiliating.”

“The death grip on her face... poor Naomi,” one wrote.

“I would throw up,” another wrote.

After the kiss, Watts did then proceed to answer the fan’s question, telling the audience, “Well, of course, it’s Billy Crudup, my husband.”

The actors met each other filming the 2017 thriller series Gypsy. According to Watts, she knew they had real-life chemistry “when he threw a pillow across the room in the middle of a love scene.”

“Are you sure it wasn’t the day you got to work late?” Murray quipped.

When Murray kept his hands to himself.

Murray and Watts were on Watch What Happens Live to promote their new movie The Friend, which comes a decade after they first starred together in St. Vincent.

“You clearly got along well enough that you wanted to work together again,” host Andy Cohen pointed out, to which Murray replied, “It was good. Well, you know, she’s not from our country. And I don’t know what’s going to happen in the upcoming weeks and months but I hope she’s allowed to remain,” referring to President Donald Trump‘s deportation policies.

When Cohen asked Watts — who’s from the UK — if she’s “worried” about getting deported, she replied, “No. Well, who knows?”

This story originally appeared on Decider and is republished here with permission.

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