hi hello, I would like to hear your theory about how Joe pulled Nicky in for the kiss with a hand on the cuffs... tell us more please 🙏

  [puts on reading glasses] hokay so, when you look at the first shot of the kiss, you can see that when nicky pushes away from the bench hes leaning against, he goes left-shoulder-forward

and like, okay, 1.) when youre leaning your weight against something and want to sit up, you usually push off with one shoulder, and then your other shoulder goes forward like his does, but nicky isn’t really pushing off with his right shoulder enough to initiate that left-shoulder-first movement; he doesnt really seem to be pushing off the bench much at all, kind of as if.. .. .. .. . he was being pulled forward by his left arm

2.) if joe were pulling nicky forward, he’d kind of have to pull the cuffs either to his left or right instead of straight towards his chest-- just bc of the range of motion and amount of space he’d have while leaning forward with his hands bound like that- so he would’ve had to grab nicky’s cuffs and pull on them towards either the left or right of his own torso.

if joe grabbed the cuffs close to nicky’s left hand, and then pulled them towards his own left side (nicky’s right), then nicky’s left shoulder would be pulled forward first like it is in the gif, and nicky’s hands would end up on joe’s left, near his own legs/lap

and oh look that’s exactly where his hands end up

3.) looking at that first gif again, right after joe and nicky kiss, joe’s shoulder drops . .... kind of like he’d just let go of something, & as a matter of fact, nicky’s shoulder also drops and pulls back in the same instant, as if..... . ..  .. . . no longer being pulled in toward joe’s left

4.) marwan’s comment about how ‘i was pulling on his cuffs to make them tighter’ makes more sense in this context. the first couple times i heard him say that i thought he meant he was screwing around with luca between takes, but he’s talking about the kiss specifically for this question, and him essentially saying (or trying to say, lmao) ‘oh, in the shot im pulling on his cuffs but you cant see it’ makes much more sense in the context of the question and doesn't come so out of left field.

(and i mean, he words it a little weird, but he was like... visibly kind of nervous and shy while answering that question-- he says ‘it was fun’ like f o u r times over the course of thirty seconds-- so it’d make sense if he was saying things  weirdly or not communicating quite what he was trying to.)

5.) joe and nicky smiling makes sense without this context (they could just be amused by the ‘incurable romantic’ line) but joe essentially going “*tug tug* want kis plz” also adds another reason for them to be smiling like that

5b.) it also adds additional explanation for why luca m i s s e s, lmao