On Tuesday night, Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn embarked on a mother-daughter movie night, engaging in a heartfelt conversation about Hudson's captivating performance in "Song Sung Blue." Hawn started the 30-minute chat by sharing with the crowd at The Grove how she and her longtime partner, Kurt Russell, "held onto each other and cried" when they first saw the film. She later revealed that Russell "went to the bathroom and came back because he was a little weepy himself," and he proclaimed, "She might be the greatest actress of all time." The actress also joked that "Kurt and I just got along better, for the first time in our life" after watching the movie.
Hudson teased, "You're welcome," to which Hawn replied, "Honey, you helped our marriage work!" The film stars Hudson and Hugh Jackman as struggling performers who fall in love and form a Neil Diamond tribute band, with Jackman's character becoming a stepfather to her children. This resonated with the pair as Russell and Hawn got together after she already had two children. "That's what Kurt did, came into my life and took on our family," Hawn said, and Hudson echoed, "It's a heroic thing to do."
The conversation also delved into the way Hawn and Russell raised their kids. Hudson noted, "You instilled discipline in me, and I think it feels sometimes from the outside like maybe if you grow up with parents like you and Pa, it's sort of an easy thing. But you were actually the opposite parents; it was like, 'This is a craft, you have to take this seriously.'" As a result, she was always involved in dance, theater, and music classes growing up.
While Hudson is currently busy on the awards campaign trail, she asked Hawn how Hollywood today compares to when she was releasing nominated movies in the '70s and '80s. "It was very different. Right now we have so many ways to see things, outlets. I don't know where real movie stars are anymore. I consider you one of them, and there are some of them. I'm not trying to put anyone down. It's just that there's so much content out there that it's very different. I don't want to say diluted, but it's not quite as exciting," Hawn mused.
"You didn't get to stay home; it was an event. That's how I grew up. And that means when you do a comedy, for instance, you hear a shitload of people laughing. You know how great that feels? You know how contagious that feels? When you see movies in theaters like in the old days with big stars like Clark Gable and Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson with that big smile; you don't get the same hit today. So movie stars have become something of—it's not quite as exciting. But boy, back then, it was very exciting," she continued.
Hudson teased back, "I guess then the moral of this is we need to get people back in theaters," and Hawn added, "I want to see more movies. I will see this one again and again because it fills me with so much joy, and you shocked the hell out of me."
