News - 27 Jul 2006
Hudson slips out for a meal
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
WHILE the social set was watching Kate Hudson's film, You, Me and Dupree, at the Jam Factory on Tuesday night, she was down the road having dinner.
Hudson walked the red carpet with co-star Owen Wilson and then headed to Italian restaurant Caffe E Cucina in Chapel St.
Our Eye spy told us that Hudson was lovely, even signing a copy of Cosmopolitan that featured her on the cover.
"She seemed relaxed and was popping outside every 15 minutes to have a cigarette," a fan said.
At the bar drinking was The Footy Show's Sam Newman.
Hudson unaffected by power game
TVNZ - New Zealand
Hollywood honey Kate Hudson is unaffected by the fame and fortune that comes with being an A-list celebrity.
She's a mum, wife, actor, businesswoman, the daughter of veteran star Goldie Hawn and swimming in riches.
But, her infectious laugh and bouncy personality reflect a down to earth and humble star.
The Golden Globe award winner recently visited Australia for the first time on a whirlwind promotional tour for her new flick You, Me and Dupree.
Her co-star, funnyman Owen Wilson, also made the long haul flight from the US.
From the Australian red carpet premiere of the film to back to back interviews, Hudson says she is tired, but in good spirits.
She also admits to missing her Black Crowes rocker husband Chris Robinson, who is currently touring Boston, and their two year old son Ryder.
"It's hard trying to not go too long without seeing each other, it's never easy," the 27-year-old said.
"I am here for seven days and Ryder is at home with his grandparents and it's really hard."
In You, Me and Dupree, Hudson plays newlywed Molly Peterson.
Things turn sour when her husband Carl (Matt Dillon) brings home his best friend Randy Dupree (Owen Wilson) to stay "for a few days".
Days turn into weeks with the homeless and jobless Dupree outliving his welcome and creating turmoil in their marriage.
Hudson said she used experience from her own marriage for the role.
"Even when you are married, relationships are a process," she said.
"When you fight with your lover there is a joy in the fighting that only comes with real intimacy of knowing somebody and getting so frustrated, but from a place of love. "No matter what ... you love them enough to continue to try and work at it.
"Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. One of the things I love about this movie is the reality that this is life."
Recently Hudson won a libel action against a UK tabloid after it published an article suggesting she had an eating disorder.
The magazine ran pictures claiming Hudson was "painfully thin" and said Hawn urged her to "eat something".
Hudson won the case and the magazine agreed to pay damages for distress caused.
"The allegations that I sued over were blatantly false," Hudson said.
"I could not stand by while such lies were being perpetrated about me."
Asked what she thinks about seeing unauthorised photographs in magazines, there is a long pause before she responds.
"They are always trying to find you in a compromising position with your skirt flying up or looking ugly as possible," she said.
"I don't try and think about it to much, because it creates an obsession with yourself that is really unhealthy."
But, like any protective parent Hudson believes the media should respect her son.
"The only thing that bugs me is my son ... when people are taking pictures of your kid, he doesn't know what he wants he is two-and-a-half years old.
"He doesn't choose that, and I think that's unfair. I try not to focus on it to much for his sake because that could be dangerous."
Hawn's long term companion actor Kurt Russell has been Hudson's father figure since the age of four.
She says there was one time, as a child, that she felt terrified for her life because of paparazzi.
"It was different growing up. If we were with my dad and he was like `not with my kids' nobody would ever take a picture, ever," she said.
"The only time I remember it (got out of hand) was at Heathrow Airport, when my parents first got together ... it scared me because it was so weird and foreign to me."
Dressed in a classic little black dress and killer Louis Vuitton knee high boots, Hudson is a picture of good health.
She said exercise and running after a busy toddler help keep her trim.
"It's not easy, you have to work out and sometimes you have to work out to the point where you don't have much fun doing it," she said.
"Now that he (Ryder) is two-and-a-half I am running around like a mad woman and playing everywhere, so now it's an easier task to work out."
While it may sound cheesy she says Ryder is her greatest accomplishment and she would love more children.
"I hope so," she says to expanding their family.
"I hope to have more kids, but right now I am working in the fall so that would be bad. I am trying to careful."
Hudson was born to musician Bill Hudson and Hawn.
Singing and dancing around the house from a young age, she made her big screen debut in movie Desert Blue in 1998.
Her biggest break came in 2000 playing rock groupie Penny Lane in Almost Famous for which she won a Golden Globe award.
Since then she has appeared in box office smash How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days opposite Matthew McConaughey, Raising Helen and the Skeleton Key.
While Hudson is content to continue acting, teaching is a profession she wouldn't dismiss.
Playing a primary school teacher in You, Me and Dupree opened her eyes to that world.
"It would be fun to be a teacher," she said.
"When I was sitting with the kids I was doing flash cards with them ... being a teacher must be such a rewarding job.
"I know growing up I had teachers that still to this day I think about all the time.
"It would be nice to be a teacher."
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