You can thank Steven Spielberg for Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones not kissing at the end of “Twisters”

"And it is a good Spielberg note," Powell says. "It's why that kid is still in this game."

Twisters might be in the mold of a good, old-fashioned summer blockbuster, but a note from the progenitor of the summer blockbuster saved it from being too old-fashioned.

Just because leads Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell are two aesthetically-pleasing kids with chemistry for days didn't mean they had to kiss, according to Twisters executive producer Steven Spielberg.

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In an interview with Collider, Edgar-Jones and Powell reveal the Jaws director suggested the pair shouldn't kiss at the end — a decision with which both the actors and director Lee Isaac Chung agreed.

"I think it's a Spielberg note, wasn’t it?" Edgar-Jones said. "I think it stops the film feeling too cliched, actually. I think there's something really wonderful about it feeling like there's a continuation. This isn't the end of their story. They're united by their shared passion for something."

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"I also think that this movie is not about them finding love," Powell added. "It's returning Kate to the thing that she loves, which is storm chasing. So that's what you have at the end of the movie. They share this thing, and her passion is reinvigorated, and her sense of home is reinvigorated. I feel like a kiss would be sort of unrepresentative of the right goal at the end of the movie. And it is a good Spielberg note. It's why that kid is still in this game. It's amazing."

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Chung cited changing audience expectations, noting, "I feel like audiences are in a different place now in terms of wanting a kiss or not wanting a kiss." They actually tried a scene with a kiss and Chung said audiences found it "very polarizing."

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Chung continued, "This [no-kiss shot] was the other option that I had filmed on the day, and I got to say, I like it better I think it's a better ending. And I think that people who want a kiss within it, they can probably assume that these guys will kiss someday. And maybe we can give them privacy for that. In a way, this ending is a means to make sure that we really wrap things up with it in a celebratory, good way."

The lack of a smooch didn't seem to irk audiences too much as the standalone sequel to 1995's Twister grossed a blockbuster-worthy $80.5 million in its first week of release.

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