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"First kisses are awkward. And scary. And uncomfortable. And if you're lucky, it can be romantic enough to make your knees wobble.\nLos Angeles-based filmmaker Tatia PIlieva, along with Wren Studio, managed to capture those heart-stopping and breathtaking moments by asking 20 strangers to kiss for the first time on camera. The result is a candid look at love, romance and chemistry. \nSee also: 14 Elderly Couples That Will Make You Believe in Love Again\nThe first few moments feel awkward, as they make small talk: \"What's your name again?\" \"Can we turn off the lights?\" \"You have nice eyes.\" \"It's actually pretty scary.\" But then, like longtime lovers, each pair goes in for the kill \u2014 and somehow, everything works out. Actually, it's pretty sweet. \nThe video accrued almost 2.5 million views in one day, sending it to the front page of Reddit. \nUPDATE, March 11, 3:46 p.m. The video is reportedly an ad for the Fall 2014 collection for Wren Studios. Slate discovered that the strangers who appear in the clip are professional actors, models and musicians from the area:\nThe cast includes models Natalia Bonifacci, Ingrid Schram, and Langley Fox (daughter of actress Mariel Hemingway and sister of model Dree); musicians Z Berg of The Like, Damian Kulash of OK Go, Justin Kennedy of Army Navy, singer Nicole Simone, and singer-actress Soko (who also performed the melancholy indie music that accompanies the short); and actors Karim Saleh, Matthew Carey, Jill Larson, Corby Griesenbeck, Elisabetta Tedla, Luke Cook, and Marianna Palka.\nSo while the 20 individuals may still be strangers, it does remove some of the ad's authenticity and magic when realizing everyone was paid to create on-screen chemistry. \nBONUS: The 25 Most Breathtaking Kisses of 2013\n\n\n\nThe 25 Most Breathtaking Kisses of 2013\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Iron Man\nA woman kisses Iron Man at a booth during the 2013 International CES at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Jan. 10, 2013 in Las Vegas.\n\nImage: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Celebration\nA Tunisian kisses a boy holding a national flag during a gathering as part of the festivities marking the second anniversary of the uprising that ousted long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Jan. 14, 2013 in Tunis.\n\nImage: Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Mermaid\nVisitors watch Mirella Ferraz, known as Brazilian mermaid, as she swims with fish in a giant tank during a show at an aquarium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Feb. 10, 2013. \n\nImage: Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Chinese New Year\nA performer kisses a snake during a show at a fair as part of lunar new year festivities at the Temple of Earth park in Beijing on Feb. 11, 2013. \n\nImage: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Mass Wedding\nCouples kiss inside a public pool during a mass wedding on Valentine's Day in Lima on Feb. 14, 2013. Over 200 couples participated in a community civil marriage organized by the municipality of Comas, northeast of Lima. \n\nImage: Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Catty Kiss\nA woman kisses her Sphynx cat during a cat exhibition in the Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek on Feb. 16, 2013. Cats owners from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan gathered today in Bishkek to show off their pets. \n\nImage: Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Commemoration\nA woman kisses a supporter with a mask of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a rally in Caracas on Feb. 27, 2013, to commemorate 24 years of the Patriotic Rebellion of 1989.\n\nImage: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Moving Out\nKadia Sy kisses Taylor Mead, an iconic Beat generation poet and star of films by Andy Warhol and others, while posing at a gathering of friends on the day Mead moved out of his longtime apartment on April 9, 2013 in New York City. Mead had lived in the $380/month apartment for 34 years and was battling with a developer who is converting the rest of the building's apartments into market rate apartments. \n\nImage: Mario Tama/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. Spanish Couple\nA couple kiss in the Ramblas in Barcelona during Saint George's day on April 23, 2013. Traditionally men give women roses and women give men a book to celebrate the Catalan holiday also know as \"The Day of the Rose\" or \"The Day of the Book.\"\n\nImage: Josep Lago/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. Comfort\nDalbir Kaur, sister of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner held in Pakistan, kisses Singh's wife Sukhpreet Kaur during a press conference in Amritsar on April 27, 2013. Sarabjit Singh is facing the death penalty in Pakistan on espionage charges. \n\nImage: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11. Final Moments\nIranian Sara cries as she kisses the hand of her mother Soheila Mehri, who suffers from breast cancer, in a hospital in Tehran on April 11, 2013. \n\nImage: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12. Chinese Couple\nA couple kiss as they sit on a bench by a road in Beijing on May 10, 2013.\n\nImage: Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13. Celebrity Love\nAlec Baldwin kisses his wife Hilaria Thomas on May 21, 2013 during a photocall for the film 'Seduced and Abandoned' presented Out of Competition at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. \n\nImage: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14. Alternate View\nPetra Nemcova attends the 'All Is Lost' Premiere during the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2013 in Cannes, France. \n\nImage: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n15. Graduation Day\nAn ultra-Orthodox Israeli jew kisses an ultra-Orthodox soldier after a military graduation ceremony on May 26, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. \n\nImage: Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n16. France's First Official Gay Marriage\nVincent Autin and Bruno Boileau kiss on a balcony in front of the crowd after their marriage, France's first official gay marriage, in the city hall in Montpellier on May 29, 2013. France is the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage, an issue that has also divided opinion in many other nations.\n\nImage: Gerard Julien/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n17. Protesters\nA couple kisses in Gundogdu square in Izmir on June 9, 2013 where demonstrators have been camping out as part of anti-government protests across Turkey. \n\nImage: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n18. Paralympics\nDavid Wier of Great Britain embraces his son Mason after he won the mens T54 mile event during the International Para Challenge in the London Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium in London on July 28, 2013.\n\nImage: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n19. Kissing Contest\nThis picture taken on Aug. 13, 2013 shows couples attending a kissing contest during the traditional Qixi festival in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province. The Qixi Festival, or Chinese Valentine's Day, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month and dates back over 2,600 years and is a popular and auspicious wedding date for Chinese couples. \n\nImage: Str/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n20. Something's Fishy\nTaiwan's Evelyn Chu kisses a koi before it is placed in the water of a pond of Kasteeltuinen, an estate in Arcen, The Netherlands, on Aug. 14 , 2013. The gift of the Taiwanese government marks the start of the Holland Koi Show, the largest koi and pond event in the world, held from Aug. 16 to 18. \n\nImage: Vincent Jannink/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n21. History Reennacted\nWorld War II fighter pilot Jerry Yellin and WWII veteran nurse Gloria Bullard reenact the famous \"Times Square Kiss\" image to celebrate the anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day), in New York, Aug. 14, 2013. \n\nImage: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n22. Kiss-In Protest\nA man tries to stop a couple from taking part in a 'kiss-in' outside the parliament in the Moroccan capital Rabat on Oct. 12, 2013. The event was organised by Moroccan activists in protest at the arrest and trial of three teenagers for 'violating public decency' after posting photos of two of them kissing on Facebook. \n\nImage: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n23. Gay Pride\nTwo transvestites kiss during the gay pride parade at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Oct. 13, 2013. \n\nImage: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n24. Day of the Dead\nPeople dressed as vampires kiss while posing before a 'Zombie Walk' along Copacabana Beach during Day of the Dead festivities on Nov. 2, 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilians often mark the traditional Latin American holiday by visiting loved ones' graves while the Zombie Walk offers a modern twist. \n\nImage: Mario Tama/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n25. Raisin Monday\nStudents from St Andrew's University indulge in a tradition of covering themselves with foam to honour the 'academic family' on Nov. 4, 2013, in St Andrews, Scotland. \n\nImage: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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