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- Kate Hudson stars in Song Sung Blue, a biopic about Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder
- The actress’ mom Goldie Hawn recently moderated a post-screening Q&A with her
- The two revealed what Hawn always tells Hudson: that she’s a dramatic actress but has “some funny”
Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn have a shared recipe for acting success.
At a special screening of Hudson’s movie Song Sung Blue in Los Angeles on Jan. 13, her mother Hawn, 80, moderated a Q&A about her work onscreen and the lessons they’ve learned as actors.
“What is great about comedy,” said Hawn to the crowd, is “sending up what’s really tragic.”
Hudson, 46, agreed: “I really have an affinity towards comedic actors. I think they’re some of the greatest dramatic actors, and they don’t necessarily always get the opportunities to do those things.”
The Oscar nominee then asked her mother, “What do you always say to me?”
“I don’t know,” quipped Hawn as the audience laughed.
“She says, ‘You’re a dramatic actress’ — you always say that to me. ‘You’re really a dramatic actress,’ ” said Hudson.
“Yeah, but you’ve got funny,” said Hawn. “But I got some funny,” agreed her daughter.
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In writer-director Craig Brewer’s Song Sung Blue, Hugh Jackman and Hudson play Mike and Claire Sardina, a real-life married couple whose Neil Diamond cover band Lightning & Thunder made them local Milwaukee heroes throughout the 1990s.
Hawn admitted to her daughter that she “cried so hard in this movie, and I thought it was going to be a comedy! But what would you say this movie is? Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? I mean, is it a love story?”
“I think it’s like an epic,” responded the Running Point star. “It’s like the idea that you can take someone’s real life that would seemingly seem ordinary, and yet it’s epic.”
Hudson’s Oscar-winning mother also admitted during the Q&A that she and longtime partner Kurt Russell “held onto each other and cried” while watching Song Sung Blue. “It was like one of those moments where we thought, ‘What have we just seen?’ And it was such [an] extraordinary surprise.”
Hawn ended her chat with Hudson by relaying something her own late mother would tell her: “Honey? No one will ever forget you.”
“Awe,” responded Hudson. “I’m so happy my mom came to do this! We had fun! I love you, Mommy.”
Speaking to PEOPLE at the event, the mother-daughter duo called Song Sung Blue “a family celebration” around Hudson’s acclaimed performance.
“We’re so deeply, deeply proud. Not a word I use very often. But I’m in awe of Kate, and I think we all are,” said Hawn.
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