Norah JonesNorah Jones has said she found it “ridiculous” when she had to kiss Jude Law in her debut film.

The singer was approached by director Kar Wai Wong to star in his new film My Blueberry Nights even though she had no acting experience: “He told me not to take acting lessons. He just wanted me to be raw and natural. So in many ways the entire movie was one big acting lesson.”

But she says the hardest bit was the scenes with her character’s love interest: “It was an interesting situation and it was just plain weird. I had to kiss Jude about 90 times and I didn’t want to laugh, but it seemed so ridiculous. What in the world am I doing kissing Jude Law? He’s Jude … and I’m … me.”

But she added that she’s glad her first screen kiss was with him because he made it easy for her: “We laughed a lot between takes.”

“It was actually very choreographed, but there was beautiful music playing in the background. Now when I hear that music I think about kissing Jude Law.”