Kate Hudson (2:29)
Our relationship and what it's like to be siblings. We are a sibling rivalry. No, no sibling rivalry. Don't do that with your mouth Sibling revelry. That's good. Oliver Rutledge Hudson here, reporting live from my own mind. I'm on a solo mission. It's just me. You're only going to be hearing my voice for as long as I choose to stay on this podcast episode. I'm sitting in my living room. I'm looking at my chandelier, which is not in line with the table underneath, and it hasn't been for 10 years. Yet I refused to move the table. Outside my window is the inside of the fence that when the kids were into graffiti ing and doing pieces, as they call them, they used the back of this fence to create their artwork. And I like it. And that's where I am right now. I'm alone in my house. My family is in Colorado. I just finished a job. I can't say what it is. Well, it's not like that big of a deal, but I'm, I'm, I'm. I'm hosting a baking competition. I'll just say that. First time being a host of something, and I really like it. I think it suits me because I get to talk like I am right now and dive into people's lives and make attempts at being funny, hamming it up for the camera, just being authentically Oliver Rutledge Hudson. So it was fun, though. It was very, very fun. I had a great time. And then, of course, I was in Happy Gilmore 2. I guess this is just a podcast of me just ripping off my credits and what I've been up to lately. But no, I was in Gilmore too, and it was so much fun. I spent a month there. I haven't talked about it yet, just because I haven't. I got to work with Scottie scheffler and Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau, you know, the top golfers in the world. And I'm a golfer myself, so it was just a treat. I was there for a month. It was so much fun. You know, Sandler's one of the greats. I've known him for a long time. Drop, name drop, you know, relationship drop. And I got to play a character that. Well, not even a character. I got to do something as an actor that I've never gotten to do before, which is play a weird ass character. His name is Harley, if you haven't seen the movie. And he's a golfer that is basically genetically modified and can hit the ball a thousand yards. I had no idea what I was getting into. When Sandler says, you know, I want you to be in a movie, you just say, yeah, you know, do you want to read the script, whatever. Sure I can. But I don't care if you say that you want me to be in something, I'm in. And I got lucky enough that it was Happy Gilmore 2, which of course is an iconic. You know, the first one is iconic. So much of my childhood and, and lines from that movie, you know, and so, yeah, it was. I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I get to, I get to work the first day and, you know, looking through costumes, I'm like, holy. Okay, this is real leather skull cap with like a cut off biker vest and like chains and leather pants. And I shaved a goatee. And then they, when I got into the makeup chair, they just started putting makeup on me. This, this stainer, it's like a tan to make you tan, but it's like it stains your skin. And it kept going darker and darker until I started to turn orange. And I'm like, oh, shit, is this how far we're going? And then I turned, I turned into like an orange bite. Harley. My name was Harley in the show. An orange biker, which turned out to be perfect for it because it was just so over the top, so crazy. But it made such a splash, that movie. It's just so crazy. It's unbelievable the amount of people that streamed it and watched it. But yeah, I had, I had an awesome time. Lucky. I'm a lucky man to have been in that piece of history. I say, that's what I say. Who needs Scorsese? Who needs David Fincher? Who needs Spielberg? Come on, you know what I mean? Like, who needs awards? Who needs Emmys, Academy Awards, Golden Globes? I have Happy Gilmore too, you know, that's worth all. That's worth all of it. Wouldn't trade it. Would not trade it. So that was nice. And then the other thing is, summer is just coming to an end and it's time to get back into school mode. Even though we're no longer in school. I always treat summer as I did when I was a kid and going to school, you know, as an adult. I'm like, it's summertime. Like, why are we working? It's summer. Yeah, so What? I'm almost 50 years old. I'm 48. 49. 40. I'll be 49 in September. Yeah, so what? Like, it's summer. We're not supposed to be working. I'm not supposed to call anyone back during the summer. I've got Arrested Development when It comes to the summer, and now it's coming to an end. It all starts up again. It all starts up again. And then Wilder, my oldest, he's gonna be a senior, and so we're in the whole college mode. And that's hell for me because I feel like now I'm going back and doing the applications again, you know, I'm like, oh, fuck, man. Like, what this prompts we gotta do. I have, like, anxiety that I'm having to do it again. And it's much more difficult than it was now, or at least there's more pressure on it, you know, before you do your applications. And I don't even remember being helped for my parents or anyone. I, I, they, maybe they did, you know, but it was all write in, of course, was 1994. So I, I feel like I just wrote it as my essays and fill out the applications and I sent them in and it was very simple, you know. Now I guess it's so competitive. But these, you know, it's like, oh, you need, you need someone to, you know, you need a counselor. Oh, cool, the school has one. No, no, no, you need an outside counselor. You know, that, that really knows the ropes. And it's going to do this and that, and it's going to help you. And then you have an, an essay writer, a guy who's gonna, someone who's gonna help you with your essay, you know, and help craft it and this, this and that. And I'm like, damn, really? Can't we just. Can't you just write the essay? But I will say that it does take some pressure off, but the real issue is, is honestly the expense of some of this. I'm like, no way. It's not happening. Sorry. You know, I did it this way. You can do it this way too. You know what I mean? Like, you can write your own essay. I'll help you. Oliver Hudson is one of the great American novelists, in case you listening to this podcast didn't know that. I am. I have not written a book yet. But if I were to write a book, everyone is already saying that you will be the next great American novelist. So that might come later in my life. But anyway, that whole college experience, we'll get through it. It'll be great. You know, the kid is deciding on whether he wants a college experience or if he wants, like a city experience. But aside from all that, here's the sad part. One. Well, not one, My firstborn is not going to be in this house anymore. And that's crazy. To me, I'm very family connected. It is my number one priority in my life. I have molded my entire life and career around my family. Yes, you have to make sacrifices, as we all do in our work, you know, and I'm lucky because I get to be home for extended periods of time and be very present. But then I'm gone for extended period, extended periods of time. So there were certain jobs that I wouldn't even consider doing because it would just take me too far away for too long from my family. And now this boy is not going to be here in a year. And that is crazy. Just the idea of walking past his room and it being empty, you know, the nostalgia that has been built up for 17, 18 years, it just lingers. You can smell it. Literally. There's a scent. And when they leave, and some of you listening, I'm sure, have already experienced this, that's heart wrenching. It's going to take some time to get used to, I think, because it's just another piece of energy, of life force that is no longer, you know, in this. In this house that makes it all run. And he's gonna be off doing his own thing, as he should. He's an amazing child. And it's gonna hurt, though. It's gonna. It's crazy, you know, Definitely gonna be shedding a thousand tears. I'm an emotional person, so every time I walk by that room, I'm probably just gonna be like, oh, God, Aaron's gonna have to get me straight. He's like, hey, Oliver. Okay, look, just FaceTime him. He's. He's right there. Everything's gonna be okay. But no, it's crazy, man. It's crazy. And then, of course, it shows your own age. You know what I mean? You're like, holy, this guy was a little butterball just a second ago. And now he's gone. He's an adult. He's in the world making a life for himself without us, which, of course, we'll get a thousand phone calls. And, you know, that umbilical cord stretches, stretches across the globe, really. So that's what we're preparing for this year, counting the days. But at least I still have my other two babies. They'll be here to console me and take care of me.
