Kate Hudson Reveals Why Kissing Matthew McConaughey Was So Awkward

McConaughey spoke to Yahoo! Entertainment and explained why he wasn't surprised by Hudson's assessment. "It's like, 'OK, here's the scene: You've just jumped from the helicopter. You're in the middle of the ocean. You go under the water, so on action, go into the water and then come up out of the water like you're gasping for air,'" he explained, imitating a crew member. "You're glad to be alive! Then you look at each other and you swim to each other and [go] into an embrace."

But in reality, that's not a picture-perfect set-up for romance. "Well, there's a lot of salt water and snot and all kinds of stuff that are in between those, and so you're doing that and you're like, 'OK, I think that worked, but did that look any good?' [They're] like, 'No, we better do another take.' So there were always, like, elements that made it harder ... We never got to have our nice romantic kiss, yeah."

Then, he realized that'd been the situation in most scenes where they kiss. "Kate and I's kisses have been awkward," McConaughey says. "We're still like, hey, can we ever get a kiss where it's just like the temperatures, right? The ocean's not wiping us away? Nobody's dropping stuff on us, above our head?"