As for Hugh, I knew it was love at first sight too.
“My first job after theater school was a great opportunity for me,” the Emmy winner said. Jess Cagle in people television in 2017. “I was really scared. Deb, she was a big star. They picked me up and Deb is in the front seat of the car. I’ll never forget it. She took off her seat belt, turned around and put her hand out, “He took off his sunglasses and said, ‘Hi, I’m Deborra-Lee Furness, nice to meet you.’ I remember thinking, ‘I like this girl.'”
As the Tony winner will note, he found out before his future wife did.
“I knew very early,” he said during a 2018 episode of australians in hollywood podcast. “She knew before Deb knew, even when she tried to break up with me, she knew. I managed to talk her out of it, thank God. I’m a very indecisive person, you know this about me, Deb. In fact knows this about me. I can count on one hand the number of times in my life something has seemed so clear to me. “I knew it 100 percent.”