Kate Hudson: So Good! So Good! So Good!

Summary

Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa
Episode: Kate Hudson: So Good! So Good! So Good! (March 4, 2026)

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Episode Overview

In this lively and unfiltered episode, Kelly Ripa sits down with actress, singer, and Oscar nominee Kate Hudson for a candid conversation that seamlessly blends hilarious personal stories, insights into her transformative role in "Song Sung Blue," and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Hollywood and family life. Supported by the regulars Jan Chile and Albert Bianchini, the episode captures the warmth, humor, and chaos of off-camera life, with Hudson holding court on everything from pot gummy mishaps to award season madness, all while maintaining her signature effervescent charm.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Hilarious Highs: The Pot Gummy Storytime

• The group opens with uproarious stories about accidental pot consumption, led by Jan’s tale of confusing her husband's edibles for melatonin (06:00 – 09:00).
  • Jan: "I started getting high. Like, my whole body felt like there were bubbles coming off my skin. Letters coming off my skin. I was like, what the fuck did I take?" (06:24)
• Kate jumps in, reflecting on being married to former High Times cover star Chris Robinson and "knowing a thing or two about weed" (11:18).
  • Kate: "I was once married to a man who graced the cover of High Times twice… I do know a thing or two about weed." (11:18)
• Light-hearted banter continues about hidden drug-laden chocolates, family phone call chaos, and the difference between 'boomers' and current cannabis culture.

2. From Almost Famous to Oscar Nominee: Kate’s View of Awards Season

• Kelly lists Kate’s impressive current awards haul for "Song Sung Blue," including a new Oscar nomination (12:28 – 13:12).
• Kate reflects on the meaning of award season as a second-time nominee, emphasizing the changed perspective that comes with experience and motherhood.
  • "It feels like having a third baby and not knowing if you'd ever have a fourth. Like, you just take it in totally differently." (12:46)
• Kate shares her deep connection and approach to playing Claire, discussing the challenge and joy of portraying a woman with a turbulent yet loving life.
  • "There's no more thing to be able to tackle than somebody who hits all the notes, you know?" (14:49)

3. Discovering Voice—Literally and Metaphorically

• Kelly digs into Kate’s music career and the public’s surprise at her vocal ability, especially among older fans (15:40 – 17:13).
  • Kate: "It's so surprising to me how many people… just… it's like their first time discovering me singing was this movie." (16:15)
• Kate discusses singing Patsy Cline and treating her voice as an instrument only recently, noting the shift when she decided to "protect the muscle" (18:00 – 19:08).

4. On-Set Bonds and Creative Vulnerability

• Kate explains how much of the singing in "Song Sung Blue" was done live, and how she developed harmony and camaraderie with co-star Hugh Jackman under pressure (19:49 – 21:12).
  • “It was like throwing us into the fire. Incredibly vulnerable… That was really our rehearsal.” (20:28)

5. Character Research & The Art of the Accent

• Kelly is effusive about Kate nailing the Milwaukee accent, which Kate attributes partially to her long-time nanny from Wisconsin (22:30 – 24:46).
  • Kate: "The cadence of it I really knew so well, you know, because she's like my Aunt Kate." (25:46)
• Kate laughs about not being able to drop the accent, with her own kids calling her “Claire” at home (23:09 – 23:23).

6. Physical Transformation for the Role

• Kelly asks about body changes for the role; Kate shares that, uniquely, she had to stop working out and intentionally carb-load, describing her Italian love of pasta (30:06 – 33:19).
  • Kate: "It became more about all right, I made sure I was eating enough protein... But I got — I like, carb loaded, which was really fun." (31:36)

7. Family, Fashion, and the Next Generation

• Discussion of Kate’s real-life daughter Rani’s creative and fashion instincts, and how she influences her mother’s award-season wardrobe choices (41:09 – 44:32).
  • Kate: "Rani is like the opposite of me. I love a peasant blouse. She's like, that is horrific. She's like a Dior girl." (44:59)

8. Awards Show Memories, Surprises, and Future Plans

• Stories featuring backstage shenanigans, "cubbies", and giving Leonardo DiCaprio a stuffed bear when he finally won his Oscar (52:30 – 53:06).
  • Kelly: "When you win, don’t be surprised if there’s a prosthetic limb back there for you." (53:01)
• Kate and Kelly fantasize about their ideal Oscars row, mentioning Ethan Hawke, Jessie Buckley, Paul Thomas Anderson, Emma Stone, and Elle Fanning (50:47 – 51:46).

9. Neil Diamond, Unused Songs, and The Power of Music

• The hosts and Kate lament which Neil Diamond songs didn’t make it into the film (“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” “America”) and why (53:22 – 54:26).
  • Kate: "The biggest thing… What songs do we choose… All the music is telling story… That was one of his biggest challenges." (53:26)
• Discussion about Neil Diamond’s legacy, discovery, and his songs' global reach, especially "Sweet Caroline" and "America" (38:48 – 40:41).
  • Kate: "The discovery of his catalog of music was really interesting because he’s written so many songs... His songwriting is beautiful." (39:15)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On accidental drug mishaps:
  • Jan: "I thought I was going to die. The entire night I tripped… I had never smoked. Like, I’m not a smoker." (06:42)
• On the time and process of acting:
  • Kate: "My dad loves this quote, Spencer Tracy… 'Well, don't ever let 'em catch you at it.' And I love that, because that's the goal, right?" (36:00)
• On body image:
  • Kate: "I love working the body… I feel like we only have one, and I love honoring it." (31:02)
• On parenthood and succession:
  • Kelly: "When my daughter was her age, she literally wanted me to dress like a whore… She called them upskirts. 'Your upskirt isn’t up enough.'" (44:32)
• When told Rani is her fashion police:
  • Kate: "She is opinionated... But there was one outfit...she goes, no, no... that top needs to be with that skirt, Mommy… We changed it." (44:08)
• On the joy of rediscovering Neil Diamond:
  • Kate: “This movie was my discovery of Neil Diamond… He’s so specific. He is… a vibe.” (38:48)
• On the realness of live performance in film:
  • Kate: "Some of it was live… when we’re falling in love… that was all live as we’re doing it. So they mic’d us and…Play Me, that’s really us singing on that." (19:49)
• On lingering accents:
  • Kate: "My teenager would be like, okay, Claire…do I sound like Claire? And everybody would look at me like, kinda." (23:09)
• On award ceremony etiquette:
  • Kate: “In her mind… it was just already like, obviously, I'm your date.” (46:25)

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Important Timestamps

• Pot gummy tales & “trippy” mishaps: 06:00 – 09:10
• Kate discusses past Oscar nomination & “Almost Famous”: 12:28 – 13:12
• Singing live & chemistry with Hugh Jackman: 19:49 – 21:12
• Accents & Milwaukee roots: 22:30 – 25:46
• Physical transformation (weight and food): 30:06 – 33:19
• **Daughter Rani and fashion: ** 41:09 – 44:32
• Unincluded Neil Diamond songs: 53:22 – 54:26
• Candid backstage Oscar moments: 52:02 – 53:06
• Closing hilarity: Outro attempts: 57:39 – end

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Tone & Atmosphere

The episode is candid, irreverent, and affectionate. Kelly and Kate let their guard down, veering from hilarious high stories to reflections on artistic vulnerability, family chaos, and the weirdness of Hollywood. Their natural rapport, with regular side commentary from Jan and Albert, keeps the energy high and the conversation flowing genuinely.

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For New Listeners

If you missed this episode, you’ll come away with a delightful mix of Hollywood dish, warm friendship, authentic confessions, and artistic insight—plus a few great pasta tips and at least three new ways to accidentally get high. Kate Hudson is at her sparkling, self-deprecating best, and Kelly guides with humor, curiosity, and heart.

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Quick Reference Table

| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------|---------| | 06:00–09:10 | Pot gummy misadventures | | 12:28–14:49 | Awards reflection & acting career arc | | 19:49–21:12 | Singing live, on-set dynamics with Hugh Jackman | | 22:30–25:46 | Mastering the Milwaukee accent, real-life inspiration | | 30:06–33:19 | Physical transformation and Italian food digression | | 41:09–44:32 | Kate's daughter Rani as fashion judge | | 53:22–54:26 | The Neil Diamond song selection and editing dilemmas | | 52:02–53:06 | Backstage Oscars and gifting DiCaprio a bear |

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In Summary

Kate Hudson’s off-camera is just as lively and heartfelt as her roles onscreen. From award season joy and nerves, reflections on creative risks, to the banter of motherhood and food, this episode is a buoyant, behind-the-scenes ride through the world of one of Hollywood’s brightest.

Transcript

[Kelly Ripa]

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[Kate Hudson]

know, oh, Mr. Tracy, I'm a big fan. And, you know, I came to Hollywood, I'm gonna be an actor. And Spencer Tracy looked at me, goes, well, don't ever let him catch you at it. And I love that because that's the goal.

[Kelly Ripa]

Somebody gotta cue me or do I cue myself?

[Kate Hudson]

Cue yourself.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay. I'm just eating while we're recording. Oh, yeah, we're just getting ready.

[Jan Chile]

All right. So we were doing. We were doing Neil diamond karaoke before you came in.

[Albert Bianchini]

Yes.

[Jan Chile]

One song was not in this movie.

[Albert Bianchini]

Yeah.

[Jan Chile]

We want to know why.

[Albert Bianchini]

The duet. The famous. What's the famous Neil diamond duet in

[Kelly Ripa]

your mind with Barbra Streisand. Thank you.

[Jan Chile]

We want to know why that wasn't in there.

[Kelly Ripa]

They hinted at it like they were going to sing it.

[Albert Bianchini]

You're right, it did get a hint.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, it got a hint. I thought it was coming, but it didn't come.

[Jan Chile]

I want to know why it wasn't.

[Kelly Ripa]

I also want to know why America wasn't in.

[Kate Hudson]

Me too.

[Albert Bianchini]

The best.

[Kelly Ripa]

The best one. Far. We've been traveling far without a home. Yeah, exactly.

[Albert Bianchini]

I like to pivot to wrongdoing for a second. It involves a phone call with Jan and her family.

[Kelly Ripa]

Please.

[Albert Bianchini]

Okay, so I called Jan the other night. I needed a quick answer from her. What do you think about blah, blah, blah? Get on the phone and there's screaming going on in the background. Kayden's ripping the phone out of her hand. And Kaden says his father made him admit to his mother that he smoked pot and was caught having smoked pot, by the way.

[Jan Chile]

Did I care? No, because and then it was a big.

[Albert Bianchini]

This is gonna be a huge thank you. And then he was so upset.

[Kelly Ripa]

Kayden was caught in his mother's Christian Louboutins.

[Albert Bianchini]

Oh, no.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, wow. Wearing the New York Knicks costume circa. Then I'd be like, okay, Kaden didn't see that one coming.

[Albert Bianchini]

I think I did wear my mom's fur coat once when I was younger, but that's a separate story.

[Kelly Ripa]

Of course you did, but.

[Albert Bianchini]

And then Glenn weighed in, I guess, and there was a whole big hoopla, so. What was hoopla? Who cares? It's marijuana.

[Jan Chile]

I don't care.

[Kelly Ripa]

Isn't marijuana legal now?

[Jan Chile]

Yeah, I think Kayden just got really uncomfortable with me knowing only you, not his father. He shared it with Glenn. Glenn shared it with me being like, no big deal. And Kaden's like, I cannot. He was pissed that he told me. And I'm like, but I don't care.

[Kelly Ripa]

He felt betrayed. Maybe that was his bro time with his dad. Whatever.

[Jan Chile]

I mean, fine, sure. But I honestly didn't care. Like, it's not a thing. Like, I was like, okay, it's about time. Like, you know, But I just. My one question was, is like, how often. You know, it's like one thing. If you've tried it or whatever. It's like, I don't need this to be your daily habit, you know, I don't think it is. It's not really Kaden's brand.

[Kelly Ripa]

It doesn't see, I mean, like, if you speak to Kaden.

[Kate Hudson]

No, it's not his brand.

[Kelly Ripa]

He's a very sparkly, crackly, engaged person. He is not somebody that's like waking and baking. He doesn't seem like a stoner kid to me.

[Jan Chile]

Not at all, actually. So, like, I was. I was surprised in that sense that I just like, it's never been a thing for him, but I was. But I wasn't in any bit angry about it. I was just like, how often are you doing this? You know? And he's like, no, no, no. He's like, I tried it with them. We've done it like once or twice,

[Albert Bianchini]

but the screaming going on. And then it was passed. Then phone got passed to Glenn, and then I eventually got on the phone with Jan 10 minutes later after.

[Jan Chile]

Everybody likes talking to Albert.

[Kelly Ripa]

Well, what it is is that Albert comes from a loud, chaotic Italian family. I can speak to this. Oh, you never got. There was never like a direct line to anybody else on the phone in our house.

[Albert Bianchini]

Never.

[Kelly Ripa]

Never in your house. There had to be a. First of all There's a screaming match going on in the background. And then whoever has had the misfortune of making a phone call has to be told everybody's side of the story within the house.

[Albert Bianchini]

Yes.

[Kelly Ripa]

That you're just like, I just wanted to know, are you bringing the macaroni salad? Right. Like, I just need to know, are you bringing, you know, the macaroni salad to the potluck? But now you're talking about pot. Right? Right. You know what I mean? Yes.

[Albert Bianchini]

Yes.

[Jan Chile]

Everybody likes to talk to him.

[Albert Bianchini]

But wasn't it you that brought it up?

[Kelly Ripa]

Have you ever smoked pot?

[Albert Bianchini]

Once.

[Kelly Ripa]

When?

[Albert Bianchini]

Twice within the last, like, 10 years.

[Kelly Ripa]

Late.

[Albert Bianchini]

Very late in life.

[Kelly Ripa]

Very late in life.

[Albert Bianchini]

But you know what I realized is that when I had said it as a joke to my siblings, I'm like, my friends think it's crazy that I never smoked pot. This was when I was in my 20s or 30s, and my siblings that are all 8, 10, and 11 years older than me, had never smoked pot. Still haven't.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah.

[Albert Bianchini]

None of them.

[Kelly Ripa]

Because we're from that crazy generation. Like, Nancy Reagan told us to say no to drugs. And, like, we. I listened. I was like, okay, yes. She was like, just say no. And I was like, you got it.

[Jan Chile]

I don't know if I told you my story, but I was in Toronto, and it was the middle of the night, and I went downstairs to take melatonin gummies out of Glenn's canister. He was already asleep, and I was just visiting Susan. Whatever. And I went to take them, and I took them.

[Kelly Ripa]

But you take them in the rectum, right? So they.

[Jan Chile]

There were these gummies I was at. I was in a phase of taking them all the time, right? So I take the gummies, and about half an hour later, I start getting high. Like, getting high. I was hallucinating and tripping my ass off. Okay? Like, my whole body felt like there were, like, bubbles coming off my skin. Letters coming off my skin. I was like, what the fuck did I take? What did I take? I. I said, I need to throw up. I need to throw up. And Glenn's like, walk to the bathroom. It's right there. I'm like, I can't feel my legs. Like, I could not feel my legs.

[Kelly Ripa]

Wow.

[Jan Chile]

He pulls me up to the bathroom. I like, what is it, the movie Exorcist? A projectile puke. Okay, come back. I'm literally saying, call the kids. I want to say goodbye to them. Like, I thought I was gonna die. The entire night. I tripped, and I never. I had never Been like, I've never smoked. Like, I'm not a smoker.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, right.

[Jan Chile]

I was tripping for the entire next day. So here's what happened. Glenn put in the canister pot gummies to take with him to Toronto. I took, I think, 50 to 100 milligrams.

[Kelly Ripa]

You are that scene from the Seth Rogen show. The studio. The studio.

[Jan Chile]

So I either took one of them and a melatonin or I took both of them. But the next airport, they were like, put your eyes in the screen, like, so they can, like, get my retina. And I kept putting my fingers up to it. Like, I was like. I was so fucked up. Okay, wait, Kate's ready. Let's talk to Kate.

[Kelly Ripa]

We should ask Kate if she's ever tripped. Okay, wait, she's tripped on gummies. You've got to ask her. Kate the Great is here. Hi, Gorge. Hi.

[Kate Hudson]

Hi, babe.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay, we're just telling funny stories because we're all talking about being high

[Kate Hudson]

on what.

[Kelly Ripa]

So. Good question. So Jan was in Toronto with her beloved husband Glenn, and he had gone to sleep and he had melatonin gummies in his luggage. So Jan takes a few melatonin gummies. You know, whatever they recommend on the bottle, two to four or whatever.

[Jan Chile]

It was in the dark, though, in

[Kelly Ripa]

the dark, Pops them in, takes the gummies. The next thing she knows, she's tripping. Like, her skin. Her skin is melting off of her body. She can't walk.

[Jan Chile]

Oh, projectile people.

[Kelly Ripa]

Projectile vomiting. No, higher and higher.

[Kate Hudson]

Wait a minute, hold on. Okay, there were drug is making you projectile vomit.

[Jan Chile]

Yeah, there were 50 milligram pot gummies in there, and I took two of them.

[Kate Hudson]

Oh, no, wait. First of all, that's insane.

[Jan Chile]

I thought I was gonna die. I did. I thought I was dying.

[Kelly Ripa]

So tell her about the next day at the airport.

[Jan Chile]

The next day at the airport when we're going through the screening and they say, like, look into the. Into, you know, so they could see a retina. I kept putting my fingers up to it and they're like, stop drifting. And they're like, no, look into it. And I'm like. Kept putting my fingers up and Glenn, like, takes my fingers and lowers them.

[Kelly Ripa]

You're lucky you weren't arrested. I would have arrested you for just. Just kindness.

[Jan Chile]

The all next day, I was still fucking hot.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, my God.

[Kate Hudson]

I. By the way, do you. Do you take gummies often? Or is this like. Was this.

[Jan Chile]

I was taking melatonin.

[Kelly Ripa]

She thought they were melatonin gummies. But Glenn, the troublemaking husband, of course. Put his pot gummies on top so we could smuggle them cleanly into Toronto.

[Kate Hudson]

Oh, it's the best. Best stories like that. Just like give Life.

[Albert Bianchini]

Do you remember the Rocco cleaning lady story?

[Kelly Ripa]

No. What's the Rocco cleaning lady story? I promise, Kate, we're gonna get to. We're gonna get to. You winning an Academy Award.

[Kate Hudson]

I'm here for. I could do this all day long.

[Albert Bianchini]

Our friend Rocco, who is very. He's a little on the crazy side.

[Kelly Ripa]

That's why, you know. You know who would like Rocco, Kate?

[Kate Hudson]

I don't know any people like that.

[Kelly Ripa]

No, you would love Rocko.

[Albert Bianchini]

He lives in Chelsea. He lived in the London Terrace at the time, and he had chocolate mushrooms in his refrigerator, and he took one and then he left it open in the wrapper. But all I know is he had it and he left it open in the wrapper and it looked like a chocolate bar. And it was in his refrigerator while he comes home from work and the cleaning lady is passed out on the floor.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, no.

[Albert Bianchini]

She went into the refrigerator and thought, oh, there's a piece of chocolate that he didn't eat. And it was like four times the dose of what she should have had.

[Kelly Ripa]

Of course.

[Kate Hudson]

By the way, a 50 milligram gummy is. I need to speak with your husband's. In.

[Kelly Ripa]

Glenn's. In Glenn's defense. He lives in chronic pain, so I believe these are probably some sort of medical grade crack gummies. Crack on these.

[Kate Hudson]

I. Listen. I was once married to a man who graced the COVID of High Times twice. So I thank you. So I do know a thing or two about weed.

[Kelly Ripa]

This should be part of your Oscar acceptance speech. This is the beginning of your Oscar acceptance speech. I know a thing or two about weed. And if you think this is an honor, let me tell you.

[Kate Hudson]

Yeah, let me tell you about my I Wanna. I Wanna Bong award. I won a High Times award.

[Kelly Ripa]

Wow, you did.

[Kate Hudson]

It's my favorite.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, yeah.

[Albert Bianchini]

Do you have it nearby?

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah. Where is it? Like. Is it like. What does it look like?

[Albert Bianchini]

I want to see it.

[Kate Hudson]

It's a bong. It's a bong. It's a. It's a Best Actress bong award. It was the best you have.

[Kelly Ripa]

You are so blessed. So thanks for returning to our podcast. Congratulations on this incredible movie song, Sung blue. It's been 25 years since. Since your last Academy Award nomination.

[Kate Hudson]

I know.

[Kelly Ripa]

Isn't that wild?

[Kate Hudson]

It is wild. It feels like lifetimes. Lifetimes ago.

[Kelly Ripa]

Let me go through the list. Let's See Golden Globe, sag, bafta, Best Actress, Oscar nominee. At this point, are you like, I know. I know how to pace my. Like, I know how to pace my exhaustion. I know what this feels like. No, it's all still wild.

[Kate Hudson]

It's. It's, like, so great. It's so exciting. And it's like having a third baby and not knowing if you'd ever have a fourth.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right, right.

[Kate Hudson]

Like, you just, like, take it in totally differently.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right?

[Kate Hudson]

And the first time out, I was so young. I was like. I was 20. I was 19, 20 when we shot Almost Famous and 21 when I got nominated. You know, I was a baby.

[Kelly Ripa]

And Mark and I saw that movie Jan in a theater.

[Kate Hudson]

Yay.

[Kelly Ripa]

In a theater. Yes. And Mark and I looked at each other, and we said, that girl is gonna be a megastar. A megastar. Like, because you had that crackly, sparkly, special thing that you still have, like, in this movie. Albert, I don't know if you noticed that Kate had chemistry with Hugh Jackman, obviously, but then she had chemistry with the microphone, the doorknob, the prosthetic leg. Spoiler alert. Like, you name it. I was like, how does this girl have chemistry with the. I mean, the car that hit her from behind? Chemistry. I was like, this is wild, wild, wild.

[Kate Hudson]

I loved playing Claire. You know, she.

[Kelly Ripa]

What a role.

[Kate Hudson]

What amazing life. You know, like, what a. Her life story is so wild. And I love that Craig wanted to tell this story that most people wouldn't have wanted to tackle, you know, because it's a hard tone to balance. And then Claire is just like this. I love watching the documentary because they believed so deeply in what. Who they were and what their desire was and what their artistry was, but, like, in each other. Like, she loved Mike.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah. So much.

[Kate Hudson]

So when I saw her, I was like, there's all of these from the woman that is, like, looking at this man with, like, more love than anything to, like, then in the documentary, this mother screaming at her children in, like, despair. I was like, as an actress, there's no more thing to be able to tackle than somebody who, like, hits all the notes, you know?

[Kelly Ripa]

I mean, she had chemistry with the opioids, Honestly.

[Kate Hudson]

I sure did. You sure did. It was a lot of work in a short amount of time, but it was. It was great, like, enjoyable work, you know, like the stuff you long for.

[Kelly Ripa]

Is it a year and a half ago your first album came out? Your first, like, official album?

[Kate Hudson]

Yeah.

[Kelly Ripa]

So we, of course, know you as an actress slash singer. Do you think this role Sort of awakened people to this other side of you.

[Kate Hudson]

It's. It's funny how the world works. Like, you know, you go out and you could be successful at something and still, like, it's like my dad always says, like, you could be successful. There's so billions of people in the world. World who don't give a. About any of it, you know, so someone's always going to be discovering it, you know. But yeah, I think people who like music and. And like, you know, movies. I think a lot of people, especially older people, didn't know that I sang, which feels funny because I was in, like, Glee and I did. You know, I've done things where you'd think that if they were into movies or tell that they'd know, but I mean, it's so surprising to me how many people, you know, just. It's like their first time discovering me singing was this movie.

[Kelly Ripa]

I think that people also believe, thanks to shows like ours, Jan, like, if I have to sing on the show, we drop in the voice of the actual singer because my voice is so bad that we, you know, we don't want to scare away our viewers. So we just like, lip sync whatever song it is my character is supposed to. To be singing. So I think that people, maybe older people may just assume that that is. Because that's how it used to be done.

[Kate Hudson]

Right? Right. That they would. That someone else would sing.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right, right. And, you know, and not just singing with your own voice, but then you were also a Patsy Cline. You know, Claire was a Patsy Cline interpreter singer. And so to be able to sing like Patsy, I mean, that was fun.

[Kate Hudson]

I love seeing her song.

[Kelly Ripa]

So gorgeous.

[Kate Hudson]

Thanks. I love singing. And I think, like, any time, you know, I, like, I'd never thought of myself as like an instrument. Right. So it's like I was never a trained singer. I grew up with a lot of trained singers. I've grown up with one. Like, I. I grew up with this girl, Danielle Denise. We were in chorus together in high school, and she's an amazing opera singer.

[Kelly Ripa]

But she.

[Kate Hudson]

She was like a trained singer. You know, I was like, partying and like, not taking care of my voice. And you know, you know, I was like. But, but, but. But then this other girl, Maya, who I also was amazing singer. Trained. Trained all their whole life, you know. And only up until like maybe eight years ago did I start really going like, I gotta protect the muscle a little bit.

[Kelly Ripa]

Like.

[Kate Hudson]

Cause I do love to sing. And when I started doing that, you start realizing that the Muscle can do a lot of interesting, different things, you know, and like, part of it is like dancing or like. Oh, you know, like a muscle. It's just a muscle. And so if you have the initial ability to like, carry a tune and then you start working the muscle, you start learning all these different techniques, and then it becomes really fun as a character to be able to kind of play with sound and play like Patsy Cline to try. You know, I still. It's still my voice, but, like, to get some of the. The essence of Patsy Cline was so much fun.

[Kelly Ripa]

If you're listening to this podcast and you don't. You're not familiar with Patsy Cline. She had a singular voice. She had a voice that was so unique and so special, and then she was so phenomenal. But here comes Kate Hudson. Here comes Kate Hudson. I tried my best, but you did it, I guess. This is good movie making. It seemed as though you and Hugh Jackman were finding the harmonies in real time with no rehearsal. It seemed like it was ad libbed, almost. Is that how it was happening?

[Kate Hudson]

Well, some of it was live, right? So, like in the beginning, when we're falling in love, like, that was all live as we're doing it. So they mic'd us and they mic'd everything around it and. And then we also had tracks that we would play to, so those were in our ears and so we could hear the track. We had scratch vocals, and then they really mixed everything together. Play me. That's really us singing on that. And then Forever in Blue Jeans. A lot of that was live because that's with the Eddie Vedder character. But even while we were recording it, we were finding the harmonies, you know, or I was finding how to harmonize with the. With Hugh, you know, and that was really fun for us because it was before we started shooting. We didn't know each other. It was like throwing us into the fire. Incredibly vulnerable. You're gonna make a ton of mistakes. And then we got to see how each other likes to work. And he's super laid back and he was so excited and fun and lovely, and I just. It just immediately became. He immediately felt familiar, you know, and. And so that was really our rehearsal.

[Kelly Ripa]

He told us on the show that he wants to be adopted into your family. And I was like, yeah, so does. So does everybody get in line? The line forms behind us. Yes, we got it.

[Kate Hudson]

My favorite. My favorite thing ever was when I'd FaceTime with Ollie and then Hugh and Ollie would just start talking to each other and I'd be like. I'd be like, get off of. Get out of here, everybody. Like, why don't I just give you guys. Why don't you guys go talk to each other, you know? And then we were. We were in the line one time and they asked, like, who would be the celebrity person to play you? And you goes, Oliver. It was the funniest. It was so funny to me.

[Kelly Ripa]

How much did you rely on the real life Claire in the making of this movie?

[Kate Hudson]

I got great opportunities to spend time with Claire and talk with her and. But I think when you're doing something like this, it's really nice to have a template. And then it's. It can be really hard if you get to know someone and their life too intimately because I feel like you bring it into you. I would, I would risk, like, mimicking, or I'd be like, I think some of the things I might have been like, yeah, but then, but. But, you know, this happened to Claire and so wouldn't it be more like this versus, like, the instinct of doing Craig's script, his version of the documentary, being able to get some of her mannerisms from. From the doc. The accent.

[Kelly Ripa]

The accent is. The accent is spot on. I spend, believe it or not, a lot of time with people from Milwaukee. My son went to college. Our youngest went to college in the Midwest and he was on the wrestling team. And so we would travel around and that accent is so specific. And you specifically nailed it.

[Kate Hudson]

Thanks. I loved doing it.

[Kelly Ripa]

Did you have a hard time shaking it off?

[Kate Hudson]

Yes. And by the way, even. Even when I start talking, sometimes if I've. If I've seen the movie or if, like, there's a scene and. And they play it and then I start talking with someone, like, it'll come back.

[Kelly Ripa]

That's amazing.

[Kate Hudson]

You know, my favorite is my kids because I would. When I'd get frustrated with them, there were times where they were like, my teenager would be like, okay, Claire,

[Kelly Ripa]

do

[Kate Hudson]

I sound like Claire? And everybody would look at me like, kinda like, I'm still in here, you know, it's hard because it's like, you know, you're doing it all day every day, and it's hard to shake. But that. And that accent is so specific. I loved it, though. We had a great dialect coach, Jess. And then I was. Had a nanny that was from Milwaukee. And then that. When I was about 21 years old, I said to my nanny, she. She left my mom. You know, we got. We grew up, we got older and, And I had a really bad experience with an assistant, and I didn't trust anybody, so I didn't know who to call. I called Kathy, and I said, what are you doing? Or can you help me? I'm. I'm. I. I have a, like, no structure in my brain. I'm too add. I don't know. I've got too many things going on, and everything was happening so fast in my life, and I was, you know, like, getting pregnant. And she just. I said, will you come help me and assist me? And she goes, absolutely not. I was like, what do you mean? She's like, no, I was your nanny. You're not gonna be my boss, okay? And I was like, okay, fine. And then. And then she called me back. She goes, I'll do six months until we. We can find someone, and I'll, you know. You know, help you out. Because my life was a mess. I was in, like, five different coasts, and I don't even know what. I don't know what's happening. And 25 years later, she just retired back to Milwaukee.

[Kelly Ripa]

Wow.

[Jan Chile]

I love that.

[Kelly Ripa]

It's like, I'll do six months.

[Albert Bianchini]

Cut to.

[Kelly Ripa]

This is me on the talk show, by the way.

[Kate Hudson]

I'll do six months.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right.

[Kate Hudson]

25 years later, she just retired. She's went back to Milwaukee. She's there right now.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, my gosh. She must be thrilled.

[Kate Hudson]

Accent.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah.

[Kate Hudson]

Now, what I didn't realize when I started doing the accent, because I. I knew it so well, was how many things she didn't say. Like, a real.

[Kelly Ripa]

Like, really?

[Kate Hudson]

Someone from Milwaukee. She. She kind of had a. A weird mixture of accents. And so there were certain things that. Certain things that I thought were a Milwaukee accent that weren't. But. But anyway, the point is, is the cadence of it. I really knew so. Well, you know, because she's like, my Aunt Kate.

[Albert Bianchini]

I think I heard you say she saw the movie, right?

[Kate Hudson]

She did, yeah. She came on Oprah. Oprah surprised me with her. It was like, I was so emotional because I love her so much. And Oprah's like, well. And like, well. And she goes, kathy, what do you think about the accent? And Kathy was just sitting there. I haven't seen her in, like, a year and a half. I was like, this is so Oprah. I love everything about this.

[Kelly Ripa]

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[Kate Hudson]

Yeah, it's funny. I think actors have an athlete mentality when it comes to discipline, like part of the process of what we do. Sometimes people think that maybe it's easy because you've got all these people that you can hire to do it, but

[Kelly Ripa]

the reality is, no, nobody's doing it for you. You. You can hide.

[Kate Hudson]

Yeah. Yeah. You got to get, like, crazy. But in this scenario, it was fun because I didn't have to be as disciplined because I actually had to stop, you know, kind of working out, and I got to give myself a nice rest and.

[Jan Chile]

And.

[Kate Hudson]

Which is hard for me because I have such, like, a healthy lifestyle, you know?

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah.

[Kate Hudson]

Yeah, I. I put on some. Some weight and did it in a good way, in a healthy way, you know, but I got to kind of, like, not do anything.

[Kelly Ripa]

How did you, like, how did you gain the weight? Was it. Was there a specific food, or did you do, like, the, you know, the Hugh Jackman chicken breasts? Hundreds of chicken breasts? No.

[Kate Hudson]

Well, I did do more protein. I wanted to make sure that what I was building underneath was. Look, I love feeling strong, and, you know me, I'm very athletic. We are both frustrated athletes.

[Kelly Ripa]

We really are.

[Kate Hudson]

I haven't worked out in a week. I feel like my body. I just don't. I just don't like the way it feels like. I love being active. It's my happy place. I love my sauna and, like, working. I. I love working the body, you know, I feel like we only have one, and I love honoring it. I'm, like, good about it, but I'm not, like, Hugh about it.

[Kelly Ripa]

You're not Hugh about it.

[Kate Hudson]

She was, like, nuts. Yeah. He was like.

[Kelly Ripa]

He's like a whole other level.

[Kate Hudson]

That's a whole other thing.

[Kelly Ripa]

That's not even athletic at this point. It's almost alien. It's like, fore. Yeah.

[Kate Hudson]

This. I can't. I'm not.

[Kelly Ripa]

No.

[Kate Hudson]

Because I love food. I. I'm a total foodie. So for me, it became more about all right, I get. I'm gonna. I made sure I was eating enough protein, you know, But I got. I like, carb loaded, which. Which was really fun.

[Kelly Ripa]

And, like, what was your favorite carb? Albert wants to know all the food.

[Kate Hudson]

Yes, I'm Italian. I'm Italian at pasta. I mean, I. You know. Know what kind of. I only eat. Well, I'm a bar Petey girl, so, yes, I go, and Giovanni kind of feeds me.

[Kelly Ripa]

And that was, like, whatever Giovanni wants

[Kate Hudson]

you to eat is what you're eating, so. And it was truffle season. If you give me a homemade pasta with truffles and butter, I'm. I'm the happiest girl, you know? But I'll. I'll also eat anything. My. You know, I love the. The Petey rigatoni, and. But I. I would. That's kind of my, like, neighborhood haunt forever.

[Albert Bianchini]

Kate, what do you think about the lasagna from Don Angie?

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh,

[Kate Hudson]

stop.

[Albert Bianchini]

It's. I mean, that's all you need to know. There it is.

[Kate Hudson]

I love that lasagna so much. Now I make a Sicilian.

[Kelly Ripa]

You make a Sicilian lasagna?

[Kate Hudson]

I make this Sicilian lasagna. The Sicilian one's a little. It's not as heavy. It's a little bit cleaner. Doesn't have, like, a crazy bechamel. Like, it's, like. It's just lighter and not as cheesy, and it's thinner layers. And I. So I make a Sicilian lasagna with homemade lasagna noodles. That's, like, kind of out of this world.

[Kelly Ripa]

Is that what your people are? Are you Sicilian?

[Kate Hudson]

Yeah, we're half. I'm half Sicilian.

[Kelly Ripa]

I know. Who knew? So excited.

[Kate Hudson]

I didn't even know. I mean, I knew, but I didn't. I didn't. I. I thought, well, maybe my dad is just living in an Italian dream. But it turns out I'm Italian.

[Kelly Ripa]

Albert, how many Sicilians do you know?

[Albert Bianchini]

A bunch. But we are not Sicilian. But we know.

[Kelly Ripa]

I know you're not Sicilian, but you know, a bunch of Brooklyn, right?

[Kate Hudson]

Well, we're all related.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, exactly. That's what I was gonna say. You're definitely related. Related to Albert's people.

[Kate Hudson]

Yeah.

[Kelly Ripa]

You go.

[Kate Hudson]

You go on 23andMe. And you're like, well,

[Kelly Ripa]

looks like I

[Kate Hudson]

got a lot of first cousins.

[Kelly Ripa]

Finding your roots? Finding your roots. I want to talk about the. This girl, Ella Anderson, who plays your daughter.

[Kate Hudson]

Oh, isn't she fantastic?

[Kelly Ripa]

You know who she reminds me of? She reminds me of Kate Hudson in Almost Famous with her curly hair. She does There she has that look in her eye.

[Kate Hudson]

She's. She's magic. She's so talented. She's so professional and smart, intelligent, and, like, I hope she has an amazing career, because she deserves it. She's a voracious reader. I mean, like, I'd look and every four days, there'd be a new book she'd be reading. I'd be like, did you finish that book? And she's like, yeah. I'm like, oh, my God, I feel so inadequate.

[Kelly Ripa]

Did you just start bringing books onto the set so you looked.

[Kate Hudson]

I'm like, war and Peace. I'm like, reading War and Peace.

[Kelly Ripa]

With me, it's always the same. Kelly, what are you reading? I'm reading a leaflet on the latest Botox technique. No, you read a lot.

[Albert Bianchini]

You're a big reader.

[Kelly Ripa]

You're a big reader, Kelly.

[Kate Hudson]

I'm reading the difference between Korean Botox and the one I've been getting for the last 20 years.

[Kelly Ripa]

How do you prepare for these scenes that you. That you had that were so breathtakingly for me would seem, like, very hard to shake off depression and anxiety and falling into addiction and just the pain that you sort of physically manifested in the way you carried yourself.

[Kate Hudson]

I mean, that's process. Like, so the process for me, it's extensive, you know, but I think. I think it's like one of those things where my dad loves this quote, Spencer Tracy. This young kid went up to Spencer Tracy in the studio and said, you know, oh, Mr. Tracy, I'm a big fan. And, you know, I came to Hollywood. I'm gonna be an actor. And Spencer Tracy looked at him, he goes, well, don't ever let him catch you at it. And I love that, because that's the goal, right? But with that comes the same discipline and processing and research and knowledge and understanding and empathy and all of the things that, like. Like, you need in order to kind of bringing certain aspects of yourself or, you know, experiences that you've had that have been troubling or hurtful, and then trying to, like, bring that to life, you know, for something like this, there was so many different things, you know, and so part of it was also sort of the marker of, like, things that you don't want people seeing, necessarily. But. But her joy, her balancing act, that joy of hers, that, like, desire to feel love or be loved or love him. All of those are also a part of, like, why she falls so hard. So, you know, the. The manicness of what it might. What it might be for someone who struggles with that kind of mental health.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah.

[Kate Hudson]

Without seeing it too obviously, you know.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, it's more of a feeling like I got, I got nauseous when Claire returns to the stage and she's wearing her prosthetic and she's on stage and

[Kate Hudson]

she's singing and there's so much shame attached to it. There's a lot of things.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right.

[Kate Hudson]

You work when it comes to something like this. The big things were for me was, you know, obviously, again, it's. It's Claire. My, My son is calling my 22 year old son.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, what is he want? Let's answer it. Answer it. Put him on speakerphone. I want to hear what he has to say.

[Kate Hudson]

Wait, I'm on with Kelly Ripa. I'm doing a podcast.

[Kelly Ripa]

You're on speaker.

[Kate Hudson]

You're on speaker. So don't say anything that could incriminate me or. You.

[Kelly Ripa]

Love this kid.

[Kate Hudson]

Oh, my God. Okay, I love you.

[Kelly Ripa]

Bye. Bye. And scene. Okay, so tell me about your conversation with Neil Dylan. Had you ever met him before you started working on this film? Did he know, like your parents?

[Kate Hudson]

No, I, I. So he lives like 15 minutes from where I grew up in Colorado. And I, I had never met him or his family is so weird. But, and, and I was never like, Neil diamond wasn't my era. I was like, you know, Radiohead, you know, tribe called quest, 90s girl. I, I was, you know, Neil diamond definitely wasn't on my radar. Except for when you'd go karaoke and everybody would sing Sweet Caroline or I knew. And then I, and then I remember watching Pulp Fiction and girl, you'll be a woman soon was like the best moment. But other than that, this movie was my discovery of Neil Diamond.

[Kelly Ripa]

Wow.

[Kate Hudson]

He's so specific. He is, you know, he's a vibe.

[Kelly Ripa]

His voice is immediately identified. Yeah, it is. Nobody else. He's got to be tickled that this film is sort of reestablishing him to a younger generation of people that may not know beyond Sweet Caroline and may not even associate him with Sweet Caroline because it's like a sports anthem.

[Kate Hudson]

You realize it's the most global from like soccer to. It's kind of wild how many places use Sweet Caroline. The discovery of his catalog of music was really interesting because he's written so many songs. It's on another level, you know, he's a such a prolific songwriter, whereas Neil Diamond's music would never have been the music that I would have like done the deep dive on. To be able to do a deep dive into a genre of Music that really wasn't, like, where my life led me was so awesome because his lyrics are amazing, his songwriting is beautiful. And I got to, like, discover this new artist that's, like, an older guy.

[Albert Bianchini]

And then.

[Kate Hudson]

And then the movie comes out, and I've got friends calling me, going, holy shit. You know, Neil's catalog, like, he wrote Red, Red Wine, and. And the song that I sing at the end of the movie is such a beautiful song. I've never heard that before.

[Kelly Ripa]

So beautiful. Yep.

[Kate Hudson]

Yeah. So it was great. And then getting to know him and the family has been wonderful, and he's so happy, and he's. It's. It's been. It's been really. It's been a sweet thing. It's been a really sweet. This whole movie has such good energy around it with the family, with, like, Claire and Rachel and Neil, and it's been wonderful.

[Kelly Ripa]

So I saw the video. Jan, I don't know if you saw the video of Kate. When she found out she got the Academy Award nomination and what I wanted to know, I was like, she's gotta be in New York because you were FaceTiming. You were in a bed.

[Kate Hudson]

So I woke up at, like, five in the morning. Well, what's weird is that Ronnie, she loves her own space. Ronnie. Or just. Just wait.

[Kelly Ripa]

I know she's it.

[Kate Hudson]

I don't know. The world's ready for Ronnie, right?

[Kelly Ripa]

You know, she's Libra, and you know that now for the next, like, 14 years, she gets to run the world.

[Kate Hudson]

Oh, it's. It's already happening.

[Kelly Ripa]

She.

[Kate Hudson]

Everything's hers. It's all hers.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right?

[Kate Hudson]

It's fine. I. I literally, the other day, I'm like, where is my favorite? Where's my shampoo? I. She's already stealing my clothes, my products. I'm like, you're seven. You're seven years old.

[Kelly Ripa]

Can't start too soon.

[Jan Chile]

Yeah.

[Kate Hudson]

I'm like, where's my Valentino coat? It's, like, in Ronnie's room.

[Kelly Ripa]

Smart girl.

[Kate Hudson]

She's waiting until she gets big enough girl.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah. She's hoarding your things now. Early. So.

[Kate Hudson]

She doesn't usually come in my room because she likes to, but for some reason, she woke up in the middle of the night. She came in, and I'm put on the television at, like, 5:15. And I didn't know if I was gonna do it. I was, like, nervous, and I was like, why am I doing this to myself? And then I was like, no, no, no. Look, I'm either gonna go back to sleep disappointed, and Sad. I'm either gonna cry, kind of sad that it didn't happen, or I'm gonna cry. Cause I'm excited, you know, And I have to just see. And then Ronnie was there, which was so great that she came in to experience it. I got delayed, like, celebrate with her and Dani, all of us together.

[Kelly Ripa]

And does she understand what the Academy Awards. Like, does she know what that is, or. It's just, like, a pretty gold award, a trophy.

[Kate Hudson]

I think she's old enough to understand. And then all of the things that I'm doing, and she's seeing it like, she. She loves the Grammys. She loves to watch the Grammys. Right. And then now she understands that, like the Academy Awards or like the Grammys, but for. But for actors.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right, right.

[Kate Hudson]

So she knows that it's, like, a big deal.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah.

[Kate Hudson]

Ronnie's just always mad that she's not invited to the party. That's really, like, will you take her

[Kelly Ripa]

this year or no?

[Kate Hudson]

No.

[Kelly Ripa]

We could take her backstage with us if you want. We're working backstage.

[Kate Hudson]

Oh, my God. That'd be the best. I think I have to bring my mom.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, so bring.

[Kate Hudson]

Your mom's gonna be my date.

[Kelly Ripa]

We'll have Ronnie backstage. We have Candy backstage there. So we'll have Ronnie backstage. Like, nobody. You know what? Nobody will turn down an interview with Ronnie. Just be like, here, hold this microphone and go ask Joaquin Phoenix. He's very strange. Go ask him to talk to you on this microphone. Yeah.

[Kate Hudson]

Or just ask or. Or be you. If you really want to get to know Ronnie, she should be your fashion police.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, yeah. Does she help?

[Kate Hudson]

She is opinionated.

[Kelly Ripa]

Does she have a good eye?

[Kate Hudson]

Oh, amazing. But, like, does not, like certain things. And we'll, like, be like, no. She'll just go, no.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, that's.

[Jan Chile]

What is she about your outfits for this?

[Kelly Ripa]

How does she. How does she think you've done so far?

[Kate Hudson]

So far? Mommy's like, Mommy's getting A's.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay, good. Okay, good, good.

[Kate Hudson]

But there was one outfit and mine with my stylist, Sophie. And she looked at me, and she goes, no, no. And I was like, really? And she was, no. She goes, you need that. That top needs to be with that skirt, Mommy. And. And Sophie was like, she's not wrong. We changed it. I'm like, well, you're right. It was. That was better, Ronnie.

[Kelly Ripa]

So it's funny. When my daughter was her age, she literally wanted me to dress like a whore. Like, I could not. No skirt. She called them. She didn't call them short. Skirts. She called them up skirts. And she would say, your. Your upskirt isn't up enough. Like, she wanted it more up. Make it more up.

[Kate Hudson]

So is she like that now?

[Kelly Ripa]

No, now she's. She's like. She's moved to London, so she's a proper Brit. Like, she's very staid.

[Kate Hudson]

And Rani is like the opposite of me. Right? So, like, I, you know, I love a peasant blouse. She's like. That is horrific. She's like a Dior girl. Like, you know what I mean? Like. Like, she likes. She likes monoch. She likes monochromatic.

[Kelly Ripa]

She wants linear shapes.

[Kate Hudson]

She's linear and. And, like, loves black and white. She doesn't like anything too, like, girly. She's really. Her. Her style is really, really interesting. She's a Libra. So, like, it's all aesthetic. It's all. And it's not like, in a protect, like, she, like, she'll walk outside and be like, oh, my God, Mom. Look, like, she just sees everything in, you know, and she's got a bit of an artist brain. She's a little. She's kind of freaking us out with her drawings right now because they're. They're. They're like. I don't. I don't know where that comes from.

[Kelly Ripa]

You don't need that. You don't have any art.

[Kate Hudson]

No, but Danny's side does. Danny. Danny's actually aunt was Gyo Fujikawa, who was a very famous illustrator. Well, that and I think it. Yeah. And her. She has real perspective. And to be a Libra and then to be. Draw. A Draw, like, to draw. It's fascinating to me.

[Kelly Ripa]

So we'll see. I don't know. I'm gonna be.

[Kate Hudson]

I'm having a fine artist in the. In the family.

[Albert Bianchini]

How did your mom react when you asked her to come with you?

[Kate Hudson]

I think she was already planning on it. I think in her mind, it was just, you know, I. I think it was just already, like, you know, obviously, I'm your day.

[Jan Chile]

Have you picked out your dress yet?

[Kate Hudson]

No, but I'm having a lot of fun with it.

[Kelly Ripa]

Are they all fighting over you? Like, all the designers are fighting over.

[Kate Hudson]

I'm having a lot of fun. I'm having so much fun. Like, that's actually different than when it. What it was.

[Kelly Ripa]

You mean the first time?

[Kate Hudson]

Yeah, the first. Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't. The first time, it was like, I had, like, you, like, buy your own dress. Dress. You know, it was like, I. My. I was my own style. I didn't Have a stylist.

[Kelly Ripa]

Do you remember what you wore? I'm trying to remember what you wore.

[Kate Hudson]

Yes, I got, I got panned for what I wore.

[Kelly Ripa]

Such.

[Kate Hudson]

I wore. No, but it was really a beaut. It was Stella. Stella made it. But she was my friend and she called me. She's like, I'll make your dress. And I was like, great. And we made this dress and we did this like cap sleeve and the dress was amazing. It was like this low back, really like simple. But I did my hair all crazy and everybody. Nobody liked it, but I was so happy. The dress was amazing and it was a vibe. Listen. It was a vibe and I loved it.

[Kelly Ripa]

Beautiful.

[Kate Hudson]

It was such a different time.

[Kelly Ripa]

Now it's really wild. I feel like it's.

[Kate Hudson]

I love it. I love seeing what everybody wears. I love talking about everybody's dresses. I love people who have like very like great personal style, you know, the people who are very styled and need stylists, you know, but people with that, like personal.

[Kelly Ripa]

How dare you? How dare you say that to my face.

[Kate Hudson]

But you can feel it like, you know, you know, you're like. And it's so fun to see, you know, all of these. It's like artists putting art on other artists. It's just the best.

[Kelly Ripa]

Who would I have fun sitting next to? Like if you were there and I was there. Okay, who would you want in between us?

[Kate Hudson]

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[Kelly Ripa]

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[Jan Chile]

He tried it and now he won't

[Kelly Ripa]

eat his other food. Oh, so you don't need now the

[Jan Chile]

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[Kelly Ripa]

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[Kate Hudson]

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[Kelly Ripa]

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[Kate Hudson]

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[Kelly Ripa]

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[Kate Hudson]

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[Kelly Ripa]

Who would I have fun sitting next to? Like, if you were there and I was there, who would you want in between us? Besides Goldie, because obviously I would want Goldie.

[Kate Hudson]

Ethan Hawke is fantastic.

[Kelly Ripa]

Ethan Hawke. Okay, good. He's fun.

[Kate Hudson]

Funn.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah.

[Kate Hudson]

Energetic and keeps it crackling. Yeah, he's so much fun. I love Ethan. We've worked together. We were. We did Glass Onion together. He came so I spent some time with him and his wife in Greece and, And when we filmed that. And it's really fun to see him. I mean, it's. This is a really fun year because honestly, I know so many people. We kind of all weirdly grew up together, like Leo and Benicio and Paul Thomas Anderson is fantastic. He's great.

[Kelly Ripa]

So maybe we want him to sit in our row too.

[Kate Hudson]

He'd be a fun one. In our row.

[Kelly Ripa]

Jan is like, Kelly, what row are you. The row.

[Kate Hudson]

And oh, oh, oh. Jessie Buckley.

[Kelly Ripa]

Jesse Buckley. Yeah.

[Kate Hudson]

And Emma Stone.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes.

[Kate Hudson]

Is so much fun.

[Kelly Ripa]

You know, I've. I've never met Elle Fanning. Yes.

[Kate Hudson]

Elle Fanning is like a bright light, so.

[Kelly Ripa]

Jan is such an asshole. Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins an Academy Award and he comes backstage in our cubby hole. In our cubby hole. You know, our little cubby hole.

[Kate Hudson]

I know the cubby hole.

[Kelly Ripa]

Tequila and gummies. So we're backstage. Leonardo DiCaprio comes backstage, right? And we're just like.

[Kate Hudson]

I like that you say DiCaprio.

[Kelly Ripa]

DiCaprio. How do you. What, what do you call it? Him. DiCaprio. It's not DiCaprio.

[Kate Hudson]

I mean, DiCaprio is Italian. I, I think we should just do that. Anyway, I like it.

[Kelly Ripa]

It's how his people would call him

[Kate Hudson]

back in the old country Leonardo DiCaprio. DiCaprio.

[Kelly Ripa]

He comes backstage and Jan shoves this thing at me and she goes, give this to Leo. Give it. Give it to him. Give it to him now. And it's stuffed grizzly bear. Jan, lets me give your friend Leo a stuffed grizzly bear.

[Kate Hudson]

Just from the movie.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes. Jeff from the movie. His happy memories of being mauled by the bear.

[Jan Chile]

Kate, we have to show you the picture of Kelly.

[Kate Hudson]

So when you win and the bear.

[Kelly Ripa]

When you win, don't be surprised if there's a prosthetic limb back there for you.

[Kate Hudson]

Like the leg lamp. You're gonna give me the leg lamp from Christmas Story?

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes.

[Albert Bianchini]

Or a model car of an Oldsmobile or something.

[Kelly Ripa]

Don't be surprised. Jan likes to have props for the winners, so.

[Kate Hudson]

Oh my gosh.

[Kelly Ripa]

If you have any requests, I suggest you get them.

[Jan Chile]

I love the leg lamp.

[Kelly Ripa]

Leg lamp is a great idea.

[Jan Chile]

I want to know about the songs that weren't in the movie.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes.

[Jan Chile]

Like Albert was.

[Albert Bianchini]

Oh yeah, you don't bring me flowers was that.

[Kate Hudson]

Oh, yeah. The biggest thing was like for Craig was like what song do we choose and what songs do we not and what songs make sense for the movie. And all of the music is telling story.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right.

[Kate Hudson]

So it's sort. It's sort of like that was one of his biggest challenges. Like when we were doing all our press, that was one of the things he talked about a lot was like it was, you know, hard to pick what we sing. You know, I am I said's all of our favorite, but we never really hear it except in that one little moment when he's in the Thai restaurant. And that must have been a real challenge for Craig.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah. I don't envy him it because, you

[Kate Hudson]

know, not that cuz there's so many.

[Jan Chile]

I wanted America.

[Kelly Ripa]

You wanted America. Yeah, America. I know.

[Kate Hudson]

Well, we actually did sing America. Yeah. We got cut out well and it just. It was. It was too long, you know.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah.

[Kate Hudson]

But we. But it's. But it's fantastic. I think in. In some edit there will definitely be America.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah. The. Yeah. I love when they. I love when the DVD comes out or the streaming puts out the extra footage. I love it so much.

[Kate Hudson]

It's great. And it's actually really like. It's so over the top when we do America. So it's really fun.

[Kelly Ripa]

Mark and his family, the first time they came to this country he was flying on. It was either Pan Am or twa. I'm not sure which one. It's like a now no longer no longer with US Airline. And he said, you know, they had the big plastic headphones and when they landed at jfk, they were playing America by Neil diamond. And he had never, you know, he had never heard American music before. And he really thought that was the national anthem. He was like, oh, this is amazing. This, this is such a great national anthem. Stop. Yeah. And so it's like a very special song.

[Kate Hudson]

That is his national anthem.

[Kelly Ripa]

That's his national anthem. Yeah.

[Kate Hudson]

That must have been so amazing.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah. To be like a young kid, you know what I mean?

[Kate Hudson]

How old was he?

[Kelly Ripa]

God, I guess he had to be like 7 or 8 years old.

[Kate Hudson]

And he just. And they, they just moved here. They hadn't yet.

[Kelly Ripa]

They hadn't yet moved. They were coming to find out now, like they were deciding where they were going to move because my father in law had like a couple of bases he could be transferred to. So they were picking a base. So they came and landed in New York. And that was the song that the airline played when you landed.

[Kate Hudson]

And did he end up growing up in New York or did he go.

[Kelly Ripa]

They went to Lebanon, Illinois, and then Tampa, Florida, and then he moved to New York.

[Kate Hudson]

Okay, okay.

[Kelly Ripa]

Anyway, so, you know, after you win your Academy Award, where are you coming first?

[Kate Hudson]

I'm going to the cubby.

[Kelly Ripa]

Come to the cubby. Come to the cubby. We will be holding your daughter not as ransom. We will be loving. We will be lovingly and supportively holding your daughter backstage. She'll get lots of great interviews for us. She'll probably be hopped up on sugar.

[Jan Chile]

She'll pronounce Leo's last name.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, she'll know how to pronounce DiCaprio. DiCaprio, we're so happy for you and all your success and thank you for doing the podcast.

[Kate Hudson]

I love you so much.

[Kelly Ripa]

You too.

[Kate Hudson]

Thanks for having me.

[Kelly Ripa]

Give my love to the whole family.

[Kate Hudson]

I will.

[Kelly Ripa]

Kate Hudson, everybody.

[Kate Hudson]

Love you guys.

[Albert Bianchini]

Oh, she's the best.

[Kelly Ripa]

Have I been mispronouncing Leonardo DiCaprio's name wrong all this time?

[Albert Bianchini]

Like the way you say it. But I do think it is DiCaprio.

[Kate Hudson]

I say, how often do you say it?

[Kelly Ripa]

I feel like I say it correctly. And listen, audience, if you haven't seen Song Sung Blue yet, run, don't walk to the theater or get there however you can, Jen.

[Jan Chile]

And the soundtrack is out as well, which I listened to on the way

[Kelly Ripa]

to work this morning, so. Great. Well, that's it. That's all I got. Jan, do you want to close us out? Yes. You do, do I, I. Yeah, you do. I think we should give it to Seth.

[Jan Chile]

I haven't. I miss his voice.

[Kate Hudson]

Where's the copy?

[Kelly Ripa]

All you have to say is, can't wait to talk with you all next week.

[Kate Hudson]

Can't wait to talk with you all next week.

[Albert Bianchini]

That's great.

[Kelly Ripa]

Can't wait to talk with you all off camera.

[Kate Hudson]

Can't wait to talk with you all off camera.

[Kelly Ripa]

Can't wait to talk with you off.

[Jan Chile]

Can't wait to talk with you all off camera.

[Kelly Ripa]

Can't wait to talk with you all next week. You know what? Leave all of this in because I feel like when to rename this podcast let's Talk Off Camera is now bothering me.

[Albert Bianchini]

It is?

[Kelly Ripa]

Well, I mean, I. I still think it should just be off camera, which is what we originally wanted.

[Jan Chile]

So let's switch it to off camera.

[Kelly Ripa]

You said there's another podcast?

[Jan Chile]

Albert Speechless.

[Kelly Ripa]

What?

[Albert Bianchini]

Trying to find it.

[Kelly Ripa]

Join us next week for another episode

[Kate Hudson]

of let's Talk Talk Off Camera.

[Kelly Ripa]

Wow. Seth, that was so good. Wow. Proud of you. Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa is a production of Malojo Productions. From Malojo, our team is Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Albert Bianchini, Jan Chile, Seth Gronquist, Roz Therian, Devin Schneider, Michael Halperin, Julia Desch, and Team Radio Andy Lisa Mantineo, Michael White, Shakira Perez. Hanaday presents. In the red corner, the undisputed, undefeated weed whacker guy, champion of hurling grass and pollen everywhere. And in the blue corner, the challenger, Extra Strength Hanaday. I dropped that work all day to prevent the release of histamines that cause itchy allergy eyes. And the winner by knockout is Pattern Day. Bring it on.