LOS ANGELES -- Kate Hudson is a flirty girl with no body issues. Or bawdy issues, for that matter.

"I've never had that," she says with a mischievous giggle in an interview for her new romantic comedy, You, Me And Dupree.

Co-starring with Matt Dillon, as her stolid husband, and Owen Wilson, as the kooky but sexy houseguest who just won't leave, Hudson spends half her time in the summer flick parading around in her underwear. Trust me, the hard-body Hudson doesn't wear granny pants.

Then -- va-va-voom! -- we get to see Hudson in a naughty fantasy scene. Sporting a hottie bikini, with a bejewelled dog collar around her neck, she slinks up to Wilson and licks his face in a most lascivious manner.

Hudson, the 27-year-old daughter of professional blonde Goldie Hawn and doting stepdad Kurt Russell, says she has no problem stripping off her clothes for a movie "as long as it's not totally exploitative."

That leaves her with liberal boundaries: "As long as I feel it could either be funny or fun or is appropriate, I really have no problems with it."

The script for You, Me And Dupree, written by Michael Le Sieur for co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo, is never explicit in its sexuality but verges on raunchy.

"There is a lot of, like, naked in this movie, isn't there?" Hudson asks rhetorically. Alluding to a couple of scenes in which Wilson is wearing nothing at all and one in which he is caught masturbating, she adds: "I think Owen probably had it worse than I did."

Most of it is innocent fun. Having just one naughty scene -- the fantasy routine with Wilson, which is imagined by a paranoid Dillon -- was plenty, thank you.

"No, no, that was good enough for me," Hudson says. "Plus, licking Owen's face all day got really salty -- and weird. The whole experience, it was fun. And then it was over, you know."

The movie tries to balance the flirty parts and the slapstick comedy with a serious undertow involving the intricacies of romance and marriage. "The Russo brothers were really adamant about keeping it grounded," Hudson says. "I think the movie would not be as good of a movie if it wasn't. For me, I just had to play straight."

That was tough, Hudson says of letting Wilson have all the crazy comedy scenes. "It was very challenging for me because I'm used to having the coverup of being able to be so energetic ... and just be totally spontaneous ... whereas this was the opposite."

Her real married life with Chris Robinson, lead singer of The Black Crowes, prepared her for understanding some of the nutty characters in this movie, Hudson says. But Robinson is nothing like the uptight and uncommunicative character that Dillon plays.

"I knew what I was getting into with Chris," she says of their 51/2-year marriage. "One of the first things I said to him was, 'Tell me everything that you think I'm not going to like about you.' And he went on for about an hour-and-a-half. And I still married him. So he was always totally upfront."

Part of the package is that they attract vagabond friends like the one Wilson plays in You, Me And Dupree. "There's two in particular -- they're twins, believe it or it -- (and) I've seen their genitals once too many times," Hudson says with a laugh. "And it's very harmless. It's actually more that they're very comfortable with themselves. But, you know, I'm okay with it. I can deal."

She has her own female Duprees, too. "One of them sort of squatted in my house for over a year -- and I liked it because I could go into the guest room and go, "So, then she said ...' Chris was the one who said, 'When is she going to get out of our house?'

"Then I have another one who is probably the Dupree who could light the house on fire with a stick of butter (a reference to a lunatic scene in the movie). And, if you're out there baby, you know who you are."

Like the characters in the movie, at least at the end, Hudson is cool with the craziness. "Oh yeah, I love Duprees. I am totally available for weird characters, interesting, bizarre characters. I love it."

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