What could be more Australian than Australian actors Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman sharing a passionate kiss in the Australian rain, in a movie called 'Australia'? This big budget epic movie was supposed to be the cinematic masterpiece that got Hollywood interested in the 'Land Down Under' again, years after 'Crocodile Dundee' had done the same thing. It flopped miserably. Audiences just weren't feeling it. Neither, as it turned out, was Jackman when he was kissing Kidman.
We should be fair to Kidman here - it wasn't specifically her that he had the issue is. Although he's left it fairly late in his career to confess it, Jackman doesn't really enjoy kissing people in films in general. He says he's always found it a strange experience to 'make out' with someone when there are 70 cast and crew watching you, and that he isn't sure how other people seem to deal with it so easily.