Kate Hudson covers the latest issue of InStyle to promote her latest film, Music, which is that weirdness from Sia. The magazine also drops some data which kind of blew my mind, which is that Kate’s Fabletics athletic-wear company does $500 million in sales annually. That’s by far her biggest income-generator, not acting. Kate talks a lot about quarantines and happiness and her love of musicians – you can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
She loves doing press: “People are sometimes like, ‘Ugh, the press.’ And I’m like, ‘Huh?’ I actually like talking to people.”
She doesn’t just play light, happy characters: “If you look at Almost Famous, Penny Lane is not a light character. I started my career off playing parts that were interesting. But I like hopeful characters. I like characters who can cry and laugh at the same time.”
The questions about why Sia cast neurotypical Maddie Ziegler to play an autistic character. “Maddie worked so hard on this part and was so intricate and careful about how she was portraying this young autistic girl.”
Kate believes in old-school performers: “I grew up with parents who are old-school,” she tells me, referring not only to her mother but to her stepfather, actor Kurt Russell. “And when you are a performer, you do everything. You dance, you sing, you act, and you try to make these skills go together. That’s all I wanted to do. I wanted to sing, I wanted to dance, and then I wanted to act. I never really got to fulfill the part of me that’s probably my No. 1 passion.”
She’s attracted to musicians: “I would like to say they’re attracted to me. I’m attracted to musical people, period. From the outside, yeah, I get it. ‘Oh, I like a rock star,’ or whatever. But that’s not really what it is. The reason I connect so deeply with musicians…is because we all connect to music in a way that you don’t have to explain. You just feel it, and it’s something you love….[But] The lifestyle is not something to fall in love with.”
Losing confidence in her 20s: “I lost sight of my confidence in singing and creating music when I was in my late 20s,” she says. One year she was even approached to sing onstage at the Oscars, but she turned it down. Gwyneth Paltrow asked her to sing at her engagement party, and she froze up. Eventually, after a period of self-inquiry, she began to link her complicated relationship to music with her father, Bill Hudson, a musician who abandoned her as a child. “He never was a father to me, so it was sort of like my way of rejecting that relationship,” she says.
Becoming “Colonel Mom” in quarantine: “My quarantine has not been quiet… I need a quarantine from my quarantine….Everybody finds a silver lining in it and a purpose throughout,” she explains, getting philosophical about the long-term emotional effects of the pandemic. The time has made her reconsider her sources of satisfaction. “I think it’s a positive thing. What do you really need, and what makes you happy?”
Yeah, there’s not a lot there. And that’s fine with me? I don’t need every actor to be super-Method and privacy-guarding. Kate is who she appears: a privileged blonde woman who is happy most of the time, and who doesn’t complain about her life. I think it’s interesting that her current partner, Danny Fujikawa, doesn’t seem to live that rock-and-roll lifestyle that she was attracted to in earlier relationships. He seems more like a homebody, and that’s what she wants right now.
Cover courtesy of InStyle.
“I don’t need every actor to be super-Method and privacy-guarding.”
Agreed, but there are so few who actually are those things, lol!
I have trouble feeling bad for people who probably have multiple homes to quarantine in, still have glam squads come in for virtual events, etc. I get that it’s stressful with kids no matter who you are, but…c’mon.
I’ll just say, “SAME.”
I seem to be unable to articulate what I want to about this article. Apparently it annoyed me even more than I thought.
‘Music’ isn’t weirdness from Sia and Ziegler’s casting is far from its worst aspect. It is a movie for non-autistic people, creates without autistic people, has scenes that depict abuse of autistic people as the right thing to do to ‘control’ them, and the scenes in which Music is apparently channeling her ‘special abilities’ are massively overstimulating and incredibly inaccessible to autistic people.
Oh and Sia insulted and denigrated every autistic person who tried to tell her anything about how she was harming them.
Thank you! They are just glossing over this.
I like kate hudson.
I like Kate Hudson. I feel like I shouldn’t, I know she’s not the deepest well but I find her harmless and charming. Kinda like Penny Lane, 20 years later.
I also like Kate. She really does seem happy and relaxed and positive, something I’m aiming for. I follow her on Insta and her posts always bring a smile on my face, especially the ones of her cute baby girl Rani. She is one adorable child.
I despise the association with Sia and Maddie. So much needs to be done with that and nothing has.