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While reflecting on her various film projects, Hayden Panettiere shares memories from the 2004 movie Raising Helen<\/em> with EW.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n The actress had her “first makeout” scene on the project with a man she thinks was at least seven years older than her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “I was shocked that he used his tongue!” she says. “I couldn’t believe it, and I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Hayden Panettiere<\/a> still has more stories to tell.<\/p>\n Ahead of the release of her headline-making memoir, Entertainment Weekly<\/em> spoke to the 36-year-old actress about the book and her career, including memories from the 2004 movie Raising Helen.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cGarry Marshall<\/a> \u2014 an amazing man, the director who’s no longer with us \u2014 he was just such an incredible person to work with,\u201d Panettiere said.<\/p>\n When asked if being a mother of 11-year-old daughter Kaya<\/a> changed the way she watches the film, which follows Kate Hudson\u2019s Helen stepping in to raise her nieces and nephews, including Panettiere\u2019s Aubrey, she admitted that she hasn\u2019t seen the project in years.<\/p>\n \u201cI don’t tend to go back and rewatch things that I do. You’re lucky if I sit through the premiere of it and I don’t run off and hide in the bathroom stall, which has happened before,\u201d she explained to EW. \u201cI don’t want to nitpick them. I have amazing memories of what it was like being on set and being a part of the creation of it, which was much more important.\u201d<\/p>\n Panettiere was 13 at the time of production, playing a 15-year-old.<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our <\/em><\/strong>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cCan you believe I was 13 in that movie? At certain points, they had me dressed up like you would’ve thought [I was way older],\u201d she said. \u201cI look back at pictures, people tell me how young I look now, but it’s crazy because when I was 13, I almost looked like I was a teenager \u2014 the tummy out, the smokey eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n Panettiere recalled \u201cthe first makeout ever in my life was on Raising Helen,<\/em>\u201d seemingly with bad boy BZ played by Michael Esparza.<\/p>\n \u201cMy mom\u00a0[was] watching me with a 20-something-year-old guy while I was 13. I was shocked that he used his tongue! I couldn’t believe it, and I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it,\u201d she told EW with a laugh. \u201cI was like, \u2018Oh, that’s how it’s done. Got it.\u2019 I’ve got a lot of very great memories, funny memories from that, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n While Panettiere\u2019s book, This Is Me: A Reckoning<\/em><\/a>, includes stories from various projects like Remember the Titans, Heroes, <\/em>and Nashville<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>she noted, \u201cIf I had told every single solitary story, the book would be five 300-page books.\u201d<\/p>\n