Actors Have to "Wash Their Mouths"

Actors Have to "Wash Their Mouths" Before Makeout Scenes Now

Our favorite Riverdale stars are certainly going the extra mile to make sure everyone stays safe on set in a COVID world, even when they're makingout.

KJ Apa revealed on Instagram that stars are now having to use mouthwash before kissing scenes, which sounds like something they probably should have been doing before hand. But instead of just a once and done deal, they now have to do it before every single take.

"Our new normal is washing our mouths before every take of a make-out scene..." KJ wrote on Instagram along with a video of him and co-star Camila Mendes taking a swig of mouthwash while filming season 5.

Since they have to do this before every single take, they're likely doing this multiple times a day, depending on how long it takes them to film a scene. Other television shows, like The Bold and the Beautiful, have tried other techniques like replacing actors with mannequins for kissing scenes. However, viewers have noted that it was fairly obvious that they were being used, which caused memes of certain scenes to surface.