In his book “Yes, My Accent Is Real,” Kunal Nayyar reminisced about his first kiss at age 12. It was with an older girl named Ishani on whom he had a huge crush — but he couldn’t help but think of Danica McKellar when Ishani surprised him one day by commanding him to kiss her. That’s because Nayyar was watching “The Wonder Years” a lot at the time and he kept replaying Winnie’s sweet first kiss in his mind. Unfortunately for Nayyar, his real-life first kiss wasn’t everything he’d dreamed it would be. “I felt nothing,” he recalled. To make matters worse, Ishani told him it was just “okay,” and he obsessed over her lukewarm assessment.
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But, when he got to kiss the real Winnie on “The Big Bang Theory” almost two decades later, Nayyar found himself reverting back to that excited tween who was about to experience his first kiss. However, he had a different concern this time: making sure to follow acting etiquette by keeping his tongue out of the equation. “I erred on the side of caution and kept my lips sealed like a fish. It was a long, loooooong kiss,” he wrote. They shot half a dozen takes of the scene, so Nayyar confessed that he actually grew a little tired of kissing his dream girl. Still, he did write, “Note to the writer of this episode: I owe you a Rolex.”
