Hugh Jackman: My Wife Was Cool With Me Kissing Nicole Kidman

Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman are both happily married -- but they had fun locking lips for their upcoming flick Australia. "It's really amazing for me to kiss someone where I don't have to have my shoes off or be in a ditch or have the other actor stand on a box, which is not sexy," Jackman told Usmagazine.com at a press conference for the movie in Beverly Hills, CA on Friday. "It was really lovely and I think Nic said the same thing. She said, 'Oh, I get to look right at him.'" (After her split with Tom Cruise, the 5-foot-10 actress famously remarked, "I can wear heels again!") Look back at Nicole Kidman's fashion highs and lows over the years. And it's a good thing the pair didn't mind kissing scenes, because the film-- directed by Baz Luhrmann -- is chock-full of them. "Baz quite likes sunsets and kissing, I tell you! So we ended up kissing quite a lot," Jackman said to Us. "It wasn't the toughest day at the office! However, it's never particularly comfortable making out with someone in front of 70 people. That's really not something that turns me on. It does for some, but not me." See a sexy shirtless photo of Hugh Jackman. How did Jackman's wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, feel about the steamy smooches? "When I saw the movie for the first time, my wife was next to me, and just after the first kiss -- which is a very long, lingering and slow -- Deb leaned over to me and said, 'That... was... great!' If your wife can give you the thumbs up, you know you're on the right track," he said. See what a body language expert had to say about these celeb smooches. Meanwhile, Jackman revealed that his wife, Deborra, and Kidman were once roommates. "When [Nicole], first came to Hollywood, she lived with my wife. Until she moved in with Tom [Cruise], she was living with Deb," Jackman explained. "So they were very, very close friends and still are very close friends." See photos of celeb BFFs.