The New York Times has a long-standing tradition of gathering the year’s best actors and actresses for a quick photo shoot and a short video take showing off their chops. However, the outlet changed the formula for this year, pairing them together for the warmest of embraces: the on-screen kiss. Tapped to capture the festivities is Elaine Constantine, and as you can see in the short and photo spread below, the pairings range from romantic to the rambunctious.
9 Kisses, as the collection is called, features Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Reese Witherspoon (Inherent Vice), Steve Carrell (Foxcatcher), Laura Dern (The Fault in Our Stars), Rosario Dawson (Cesar Chavez), Jenny Slate (Obvious Child), Chadwick Boseman (Captain America: Civil War), Kristen Stewart (Camp X-Ray), Patricia Arquette (Boyhood), Jason Schwartzman (Listen Up, Philip), David Oyelowo (Selma), Timothy Spall (The Love Punch), Jack O’Connell (300: Rise of an Empire), Shailene Woodley (White Bird in a Blizzard), John Lithgow (Interstellar), Julianne Moore (Don Jon), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Jupiter Ascending), and Miles Teller (Whiplash).
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[via New York Times]
