Kate Hudson on Being the Film’s Straight Guy: “Actually it's funny because when I saw the movie, we shot so much, you never know how it's going to come out. You never know. Obviously, we leave set, and the product is in everybody else's hands. When I first saw the movie, not only was I laughing, but I was so impressed by the fact the Russo brothers really made a point to maintain some kind of ground and accessibility to how insane some of the comedy is, and actually try to have a point of view of the way it is when your best friend has a new best friend and when your marriage maybe isn't necessarily what you thought it was going to be. I actually got kind of emotional.
While we were shooting it the one thing, for me, I had to be very conscious of is I love to laugh. And it was really hard for me to get through a lot of these scenes. Even when I had to cry and Owen… I had to do that scene where I say, ‘Maybe sometimes love isn't enough.’ I had to try to be emotional and I was really focused, but the second I saw Owen's face, I was just like [cracks up]. I couldn't help it. He had that neck brace on and I was like, ‘God, this is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.’ But the Russo brothers were really very adamant about keeping it grounded, which I think the movie would be not as good of a movie if it wasn't.”
Hudson continued. “I just had to play straight. Everything just had to be totally straight, and that was very challenging for me because I'm used to having sort of a cover up of being able to be so energetic and not totally grounded, just completely spontaneous. Whereas it was the opposite. I had to watch Owen do what is spontaneous and go for it, and I had to stay rooted. And my God, it was such a challenge.
Working with Matt - it was the first time I played a married woman. It was the first time I had to be somewhat intimate and feel close to somebody like that. And Matt made it very easy, easy comfortable. He's a very different style actor than Owen, and it was just working with two completely different types of people. It was really amazing how it was just all sort of came together and we all enjoyed it.”
Bizarre Happenings on the Set of You, Me and Dupree: “I have a great story I haven't told this whole time! So we're shooting in San Pedro by an Army Reserve, or Marine, I don't know which one. But all of a sudden this chopper comes. It's like this crazy noise, we hear this, and I'm all…I've got like the diamond collar and everything and the heels. My hair's all (indicates it teased out). All of a sudden we hear this huge crash. We're like, ‘Holy sh*t.’ I walk outside and I'm like, ‘Oh my God.’ I walk out and I'm in the outfit.
It turns out that my car, of all the cars and all the trailers that are there, this chopper came so low that a whole sort of big, huge, big plywood thing came falling onto my car from a rooftop. I'm walking out there, and the cops are there, the Marines are there, and I'm in my outfit. They're like, (looking down), ‘Hi Ms. Hudson. Uhhh...’ And I'm like, ‘What happened?’ Then all of sudden I realize [what I’m wearing] and I'm like, ‘Oh my God. I'm sorry. Can somebody get me a robe?’ It was really funny. It was one of those stories out of a movie where everybody's like, ‘Oh God, it had to happen that day, you know?’"
Kate Hudson on Being the Only Female Featured in You, Me and Dupree: “I'm so flattered. First of all, it was a boys' club movie. It was one of those things where I was the girl, the little sister. It was like, ‘Hey, what are you guys doing? You going out? Can I come?’ But I'm pretty comfortable with boys. You know, I have all brothers. There's four boys and then me and my mom, so I've been surrounded by boys my whole life. I didn't even think about it. Although when I saw the movie, I did think, ‘Wow, poor Molly. She's literally the only girl and all these dudes.’
I don't know. It kind of felt a little like Almost Famous. In Almost Famous, even though there were the girls, like the other Band Aids, it was always just me and all the boys every day. That's kind of what it felt like in this movie. But it was fun. It was fun.”
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