Geek: Super Model Kisses “Soft And Sweet”

The chubby geek who seriously swaps tongues with supermodel Bar Refaeli, is still pinching himself. "It's everything I couldn't imagine when I signed up to be an actor," says Jesse Heiman, the 34-year-old character actor who plays the "romantic" lead in the Go Daddy kiss-o-rama told USAToday.

"It's crazy the things I get paid to do as an actor."

Consider: 18 seconds of the 30-second commercial are pure kiss.

Heiman actually was not even supposed to get the role. After a series of auditions, someone else was selected. But Bob Parsons, the founder of Go Daddy, wasn't sold on the guy who was cast.

So the auditions continued and Heiman, who is single and admits to never having had a serious girlfriend, was picked.

"It seemed a little too good to be true," he says, still giddy from his new-found fame despite previous appearances, mostly playing a nerd, in nearly 200 TV shows, films and commercials.

Sure, he says, he's kissed girls before — but never a supermodel, much less one who turned out to be a super kisser.

"She kissed amazingly soft and sweet," he says, with some embarrassment. "I'm going to hold all kissers to that standard — and it's going to be hard to beat."

But the commercial was hard work to film, he says. "It may sound dumb, but the day was exhausting," Heiman says. He says he lost exact count but that the kissing scene was reshot between 45 and 60 times.

He occasionally had to use mouthwash — and lip balm — between takes.

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