As for Hugh, he knew it was love at first sight, as well.
“My first job out of drama school—it was a massive break for me,” the Emmy winner told Jess Cagle on People TV in 2017. “I was really scared. Deb, she was a big star. I get picked up, and Deb is in the front seat of the car. I’ll never forget. She took off her seatbelt and she turned around and put out her hand and took off her sunglasses and said, ‘Hi, I’m Deborra-Lee Furness, nice to meet you.’ I remember thinking, ‘I like this girl.'”
As in really like, the Tony winner realizing their potential well before his future wife.
“I knew very early,” he said during a 2018 episode of the Aussies in Hollywood podcast. “I knew before Deb knew, even when she tried to break up with me, I knew. I managed to talk her out of it, thank God. I’m a very indecisive person, you know this about me, Deb really knows this about me. I can count on one hand the amount of times in my life anything has felt that clear to me. I just knew 100 percent.”
