Remember the date — November 14, 2012! Because the hottest couple on TV, Will and Sonny, will finally make love on the NBC soap opera, ‘Days of Our Lives.’

“The Will and Sonny fans have waited a long time for this but the delay has been a good thing,” says Freddie Smith, who plays Sonny, tells ‘TV Guide’. “It’s allowed the audience to get to know our characters and to get to a place where they are really rooting for them to get together. I don’t expect anyone will think the sex scene is controversial. Hopefully, we’re past that. This isn’t a story about two gay guys. It’s about two human beings who truly love each other.”

Chandler Massey, who won an ‘Emmy’ this year as Will, says it’s been “refreshing to have a couple in soaps who haven’t been thrown together too quickly. We took our time before getting to the sex and the characters and the show are better for it. But” — he adds with a laugh — “I will also say that it’s about time!”

Smith shares that he’s been kissing Massey so many times that the love scene itself did not bother him. “Chandler and I were much more nervous about our first kissing scene,” Smith recalls. “Our hearts were really pounding during that one but it worked out great because our characters’ hearts were pounding, too. Since then Will and Sonny have done enough flirting and kissing and cuddling that, as actors, we weren’t nervous about finally getting to the sex. The way we shot it is very real and passionate but tasteful. Chandler and I are comfortable with each other and it shows. We have good chemistry. We trust each other.”