There's something about the genuine friendship and the unmistakable chemistry between Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson that makes them suited well for each other on screen. Dubbed as "Hollywood's hottest friends," they first appeared together in the romantic comedy "How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days" five years ago. Now the two are reuniting for the adventure-filled "Fool's Gold" as ex-husband and wife.

Sitting with the two one cloudy afternoon at Casa Del Mar, one cannot help but laugh along at their playful banter against each other and, speaking for the women population, be somewhat envious of the melt-worthy gazes McConaughey gives Hudson. Amidst the inside jokes and teasing between the old friends, The Loyolan managed to squeeze in a word or two.

On one reporter's suggestion of a workout video from McConaughey:
KH: (laughter) Please, please! Can you do that? That's amazing. His workout video would be like, if there was a bar or something, it'd be him doing pull-ups.
MM: Swim out to the buoy, gotta go to the store - don't drive, let's run and time me.
KH: I remember seeing a picture of Matthew before we started working together, I was like, "I gotta start working out! I gotta get myself up to Matthew's standard." It's difficult.



On Kate Hudson's photoshop beauty:
MM: Look at you in that bikini on the poster. You're hot!
KH: Yeah, those aren't my breasts though (laughter). They're totally not my boobs.
MM: They're not?
KD: No, they're probably Aniston's. They're great. It's kinda like when you look into a magazine and your eyes are blue and you're like, "My eyes are green."
MM: But they're a nice green.



On filming down-under in Australia:
KH: Oooh, loved!
MM: We were immersed. It was as deep in nature as you can be and still be working. I had this beach house in Port Douglas and the rain forest was right behind us. You got everything coming out of the jungle and everything coming out of the sea. I had an eight foot python in my yard and I was like, "Alright."
KH: I had one of those funnel spiders in my house and I had to call someone.
MM: There's six-foot sharks swimming by, you don't expect that. You try to think cool.
KH: I definitely wasn't prepared.



On on-screen chemistry:
KH: In my experience, now that I've been working for a decade, you cannot manufacture chemistry.
MM: You can try. I've seen people try. It's in between the lines, where I see something like those two didn't quite have it. One of the elements is that for this, you gotta want us to get together, even if you know in the end they're going to get together. It's the "how." That's the flirt; that's the courtship; that's the dance that her and I enjoyed doing.



On his character, Finn:
MM: He's a dreamer. I'm just after the gold and my girl, and I'm going to get both if I can do anything about it. Is he a boy? Internally a boy.



On her character, Tess:
KH: When I first saw the movie, one of the things I liked is that Tess is kind of like a tomboy. She's definitely more cynical and she doesn't smile much, which is fun for me because I'm innately a smiley person. That's why people like to put me in smiley roles.
MM: (mocks Hudson) "I'm innately a smiley person - that's why people like to put me in smiley roles." That's a good lyric.



On working and trusting each other:
MM: I would say I think we do trust each other but we definitely don't have the other in the palm of our hands or know what the other is going to do. The base of it, like you said earlier, is I can be a real pain in the ass for you but you love me. She can be that way for me too. We give a damn about each other, but we surprise each other quite a bit.
KH: (To McConaughey) For me, I definitely felt better being in the back of a moped with you than with anyone else. I do believe that he won't let anything happen to me whereas I don't know … I might let something happen to him (laughs). It's really rare that you meet someone you just love and you always will, and that's my relationship with Matthew. Even when I'm hating him, there's real love there.
MM: It reminds me of what mom used to say, "I love you, but I don't like you."
KH: That's what I say to you in "How to Lose a Guy!"