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It’s the horny red carpet moment that is forever burned into my subconscious and I’m not at all mad about it. At the Venice Film Festival in 2021, co-stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain walked the red carpet to promote their HBO series Scenes from a Marriage. For the unacquainted, the beloved actor was captured sniffing at the arm of Chastain in the perfectly manoeuvred PR stunt.

The Molly’s Game star responded to the moment in a cryptic Twitter post while Issac remained coy on the viral fiasco. Until now. Speaking to SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show this week, the actor touched on his friendship with Chastain and ever so briefly addressed the saga, mentioning something about flat worms?

“You know, you can cut them into like a hundred pieces and they will grow a whole new worm out of the little piece,” the actor said. “So they’re basically kind of immortal and they’ve been doing work at the cellular level where they’re seeing that the cells kind of talk to each other through electricity and kind of decide, ‘Okay you’re going to make the head.’ ‘All right, I’m going to make the tail’…they’re communicating through some sort of like electro kind of magnetic situation. That’s how Jessica and I kind of talk to each other. We’re just like, little flatworms.”

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He continued, referring to the Venice Film Festival red carpet by saying, “Maybe we should use more actual human language to talk instead of sniffing an armpit and doing things like that. That’s kind of what’s starts to happen and no matter how much we annoy each other, no matter what happens, it’s like, when you get us together, it’s like, it’s just other stuff that’s going on that is making us grow two heads.”

The couple are not romantically involved. Chastain is married to fashion executive Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo in real life while Isaac married filmmaker Elvira Lind.