--- title: Amanda Seyfried Describes What It's Like to Kiss Mark Wahlberg description: The actress and Mark Wahlberg lock lips in 'Ted 2.' canonical: https://time.com/3934411/amanda-seyfried-kiss-mark-wahlberg/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-24T19:48:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:26.913Z og:title: Amanda Seyfried Describes What It's Like to Kiss Mark Wahlberg og:description: "Eh" og:url: https://time.com/3934411/amanda-seyfried-kiss-mark-wahlberg/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf7a4618942678dd/69885835f887dc9294e91141/ap209587116488-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3374 og:image:height: 1898 og:image:alt: Mark Wahlberg (L) and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from "Ted 2." og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Amanda Seyfried Describes What It's Like to Kiss Mark Wahlberg twitter:description: "Eh" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf7a4618942678dd/69885835f887dc9294e91141/ap209587116488-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Amanda Seyfried Describes What It's Like to Kiss Mark Wahlberg > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Jessica Derschowitz / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Derschowitz / Entertainment Weekly Jun 24, 2015 7:48 PM UTC  Mark Wahlberg (L) and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from "Ted 2." Mark Wahlberg (L) and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from "Ted 2."Universal Pictures via AP by [Jessica Derschowitz / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Derschowitz / Entertainment Weekly Jun 24, 2015 7:48 PM UTC If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to kiss Marky Mark, Amanda Seyfried just knocked those expectations down a notch. The actress and Mark Wahlberg lock lips in _Ted 2_, and while promoting the film Wednesday [on the _Today_ show](http://www.today.com/popculture/amanda-seyfried-teds-mark-wahlberg-he-stole-my-dog-t28401) Seyfried ranked her co-star’s skills in that department with a definitive “eh.” The unenthused reaction was likely in jest – Matt Lauer asked Seyfried about Wahlberg’s kissing prowess as a chance for “revenge” after she shared story about the actor stealing her dog. “I was messing around with him. I shouldn’t have been — little pranks here and there,” she said. “He took it to the next level. Really smart guy, he took my dog, and he hid him.” “I panicked, because I didn’t think that that was possible,” she added. “The truth is I cried so hard, he was like, ‘Ah, you know what? I feel bad for this girl.’” _Ted 2_ opens in theaters Friday. You can see more of Seyfried’s chat with Lauer in the video [here](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/24/ted-2-amanda-seyfried-mark-walhberg-kiss). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/24/ted-2-amanda-seyfried-mark-walhberg-kiss) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3934411/amanda-seyfried-kiss-mark-wahlberg/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3934411/amanda-seyfried-kiss-mark-wahlberg/"},"headline":"Amanda Seyfried Describes What It's Like to Kiss Mark Wahlberg","datePublished":"2015-06-24T19:48:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:26.913Z","description":"\"Eh\"","url":"https://time.com/3934411/amanda-seyfried-kiss-mark-wahlberg/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","mark wahlberg","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf7a4618942678dd/69885835f887dc9294e91141/ap209587116488-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Derschowitz / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf7a4618942678dd/69885835f887dc9294e91141/ap209587116488-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Mark Wahlberg (L) and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from \"Ted 2.\"","caption":"Mark Wahlberg (L) and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from \"Ted 2.\"","creditText":"Universal Pictures via AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3934411/amanda-seyfried-kiss-mark-wahlberg/","name":"Amanda Seyfried Describes What It's Like to Kiss Mark Wahlberg"}}]}] ```