Oscar-winner Kingsley shares kiss with Olsen

BRITISH actor Ben Kingsley shares a passionate kiss with 21-year-old Mary-Kate Olsen in a movie they are currently filming in the US.

Their film, The Wackness, is scheduled for release next year.

Kingsley, 63, said: “There is a very passionate scene in the film, which we filmed last week.

“It went extremely well and she was very focused. She was very good, very professional. She was quite wonderful.”

The Yorkshire-born star, who won the best actor Oscar for 1982’s Gandhi, talked about the kiss in an interview with US TV show Access Hollywood.

When asked if he thinks the scene will stir up controversy, Kingsley said: “I’m sure it will. (Her character) is this great free spirit, you know, she is equally seducing so it is a level playing field.”

In the film, Kingsley plays a therapist who forms a friendship with a teenage drug dealer (Josh Peck) who trades pot for therapy sessions.

Olsen portrays one of the dealer’s customers.

“It’s for a few seconds and then we disappear and we never see each other in the movie,” Kingsley says of the kiss. “But she is a trigger into my quest for happiness.”

Though brief, the scene left a good impression on him.

“Mary-Kate has huge energy,” he says. “She is very, very committed to her work.”

Olsen, who rose to fame on TV’s Full House, was last seen on the big screen opposite her twin sister, Ashley, in 2004’s New York Minute.

Kingsley’s film credits also include House of Sand and Fog and Schindler’s List.