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Jonathan Rhys Meyers: I snogged Ewan McGregor

The Velvet Goldmine co-stars shared an on-screen kiss

Jonathan Rhys Meyers wasn't impressed by Ewan McGregor's snogging technique

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is proud that he was the first person to act a gay love scene with Ewan McGregor.

The actor played bisexual pop star Brian Slade in the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine and had to lock lips with his co-star.

‘Even though a huge amount of the female population might think that snogging Ewan McGregor is the best thing that might ever happen, for me it was not the most pleasant on-screen snog I’ve ever had,’ he admits

‘But at least I was his first.’

Jonathan, 31, also performed a controversial love scene in the 1998 film The Tribe.

‘We had to do this three-way sex thing - me, Jeremy Northam and Anna Friel,' he tells Live Magazine.

‘I’d never done a three-way sex scene with a man and a woman, but I knew that Jeremy was very uptight about it, so I tried my best to make him even more uncomfortable by grabbing his backside.

‘We Celts love the wind-up. It’s what we do best.’