While taking her Vanity Fair lie detector test, Kate Hudson compared kissing Billy Crudup to making out with Matthew McConaughey, whom she appeared alongside in “Fool’s Gold and “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” She didn’t outright say that it sucked sucking face with McConaughey, but did opine, “I think Billy is a gentler kisser.” Hudson elaborated by comparing the two men to a Russian stage star who developed techniques to help actors appear more natural onstage — and a bovine native to McConaughey’s home state. “It’s a more sophisticated version of a kiss. It’s like theater, Stanislavski,” she said, “and like, Longhorns.”
Hudson also praised Crudup’s snogging skills on the “Goop” podcast, but noted their steamy kissing scene wasn’t included in the final cut of “Almost Famous.” In it, Crudup’s rocker character, Russell Hammond, talks his best band aid out of going into early retirement with flattery and a long, passionate lip lock.
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As for how Crudup felt about Hudson’s flattery, it didn’t have him climbing on a roof and proclaiming, “I am a golden god!” Being far humbler than Hammond, he tried to work out why Hudson felt his kiss was softer than McConaughey’s. The answer? ’70s-era facial hair. “I think she was thinking the character Russell was gentler. I don’t have a mustache now,” he told Entertainment Tonight. So maybe McConaughey’s issue was some stubble that made his upper lip have the sandpaper texture of a longhorn’s tongue?
