Dominic Monaghan says it felt “all right” to lock lips with Megan Fox while shooting the video version of Eminem’s chart-topper “Love the Way You Lie.” Many were envying the luck of the Lost alum, but he maintains that he knew that Megan was married and he respects marriage and promised her at the outset that he wasn’t going to slip into anything inappropriate.

“What is it like kissing Megan Fox? It’s all right,” the actor dished on MTV News. “No I’m just kidding. It’s fine, it’s work. She’s married. I have a lot of respect for marriage.”

Megan has recently married longtime beau Brian Austin Green and when time came for Monaghan to go up-close with the Transformers hottie, Fox found him saying, “Look, I know that you’re married and I don’t want to do anything inappropriate,” and her reply was, Monaghan doles out, “’It’s all kind of inappropriate, huh?’ ”