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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey is one of the most iconic rom-coms of the early 2000s. It's all about that great chemistry between the two lead actors. It even made fans wonder if the onscreen couple ever dated in real life. Here's the truth about their relationship.
Did Kate Hudson & Matthew McConaughey Ever Date?
The answer is no, but McConaughey admitted that he and Hudson make an adorable couple on-camera. "The main thing is that the male and the female — or the two leads — have to have some chemistry," the actor explained.
"If they don't, it doesn't matter how good that script is. There's a lot of improv, there's a lot of banter. It's about timing, comedic timing. There's a buoyancy that they're built on, you have to sort of bounce from cloud to cloud. Dance between the raindrops, I used to say."
Speaking about his rapport with Hudson, the Oscar winner said that they would "rock n' roll" together. "Kate and I had great chemistry, obviously we worked after that on other films. But we had a really good push and pull," he recalled. "She had a lot of rock n' roll and I did too, the way we would parry with each other really worked in that film." Both of them were also in other relationships while filming the chick flick.
Hudson was married to Chris Robinson from 2000 to 2007. They share a son named Ryder. Now, the actress is engaged to Danny Fujikawa whom she started dating in 2017. They have a child named Rani. The Bride Wars star also shares another child, Bingham, with Matt Bellamy. McConaughey has been married to his wife, Camila Alves since 2012. They have three children together: Levi, Livingston, and Vida.
Matthew McConaughey Never Dated Co-Stars To Keep 'Sizzling' Chemistry
Speaking to Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show, McConaughey said that he purposely never dated his co-stars to produce a "sizzling" chemistry onscreen.
"If you look at the history of films, when you see a couple — say they did a movie together and then, later on, they get married, and they make another movie together," he explained. "Watch the movie – when they're really good is the movie before it was ever public that they're getting together. But once they get married, you watch that movie, they're not near as good together... It's the movie when they met that you go, 'That's the one [where] this thing is sizzling.'"
Still, the Interstellar actor confessed to having "certain crushes" despite keeping it professional at all times. "I've always tried to keep it professional and the people I've worked with, I must say, did as well," he said.
"Maybe we had certain crushes on each other at certain times, but we always just kind of kept it professional. Or maybe we were dating somebody seriously outside of ourselves at the time and we both respected that for the other."
Kate Hudson Has A "Sibling-y" Relationship With Matthew McConaughey
In an interview with Gwyneth Paltrow on The Goop Podcast, Hudson said that she and McConaughey have a "sibling-y" relationship. She also revealed that she had a "snotty" onscreen kiss with the actor in their second movie together, Fool's Gold.
"Honestly, like, I haven't had the best kissers. I feel like I should have had better ones," shared the Almost Famous star. "The thing is every time I kiss [Matthew] McConaughey it's like there's just something happening and there's snot or wind. At the end of Fool's Gold in the ocean we have the plane crash, he just had snot all over his face."
When the Shallow Hal star asked Hudson if McConaughey had "brother energy," the actress replied: "I mean, yeah, it can be a little sibling-y at times." The Goop founder also compared it to her relationship with her Iron Man co-star, Robert Downey Jr. "With Robert, when I kissed him and I was like, 'You've got to be kidding me. This is literally like kissing my [brother],'" said Paltrow.