You look at her smile, her blonde hair and those twinkling eyes and think you’ve seen her somewhere before. But when she laughs, you know you have! We’ve been looking – and enjoying – her mother Goldie Hawn’s talents for decades. But actress Kate Hudson has proven her own Hollywood worth bringing home a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her memorable performance as Penny Lane in Almost Famous. Earlier this year, she showed audiences everywhere How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days though Kate is happily married to Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson.


Hudson made her studio film debut in the offbeat comedy, 200 Cigarettes co-starring other some other Hollywood young stars Ben Affleck, Courtney Love, Christina Ricci and Paul Rudd. She followed that up with Desert Blue opposite veteran Morgan Freeman. Now Hudson tackles four roles in Rob Reiner’s Alex & Emma opposite Luke Wilson – as the opinionated stenographer Emma Dinsmore and successive incarnations as the stern Swede Ylva, Elsa the bawdy German, Eldora the Spanish beauty and down-to-earth American Anna. Irresistibly cute, funny, sexy and smart, Kate tackles all four personas with zeal and talent. A perfect date movie, Alex & Emma tells Alex’s story of fictional obsessive love which soon blurs the lines between art and real life.

Do you think people perceive you differently as a blonde than your brunette Emma or redhead Eldora?


I don’t know. I was just playing a character. To me, there was no way Emma was blonde. Just no way. So we went brown. These were just characters.


How did you learn to do the stenographer machine?


I actually had the most beautiful coach who still writes me the most beautiful letters. I actually know how to work those machines now.


Could you ever see yourself as a secretary if you weren’t acting?


I actually used to work as a receptionist in my mother’s company. She figured `why not just have one of my kids be the receptionist, instead of paying one.’ Like a true Jewish mother. So yeah, I had a little bit of knowledge about secretarial services. Stenography is completely different. It’s a whole other language. It’s actually kind of fun, believe it or not.


Do you think the story of you and your husband, Chris, would make a good movie?


Yeah, it would make a really good movie because we were the kind of…I don’t know if there would be any tension, though. I don’t know where you would go for the third act. But as far as the way we met and what we’ve done, there are a lot of characters and interesting stories. In the beginning, we were so volatile. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall of our own relationship. We were just so in love and passionate and then we would just hate each other and throw stuff around and then we would travel to Paris for a week.


How did you get over the hostile aspects of your relationship?


I think just after you spend more time together and then you also start spending some time apart. Although we don’t spend much time apart. I think it kind of died down a little bit. I think also Chris realized that when he broke two chairs in the house that they cost him a couple thousand – he went `I am not going to throw anything anymore.’


Does volatility come easily to you?


Yes. If something that somebody does in my life pisses me off… I don’t have a bad temper, but I am definitely vocal. It’s usually that I’m the pusher. I am not somebody that lets things blow over. I immediately want to talk about the problems that exist. Then if they are not talked about, I make them talk and the person goes crazy.


You’re married to a musician – when you’re riding in the car, who controls the radio?


Chris, 190 percent.


You sound unhappy about that.


I’m not. But it’s nice sometimes when I get in my car and I listen to my guilty pleasures. He does not want to listen to something like Def Leppard which is the big joke in our family. My brother and I listen to them a lot – they are songs that we sing and it’s just funny. Like singing "Pour Some Sugar on me" and "Love Bites". You just spell them out and it’s funny. For Chris, it’s like a shriek to his ears. What are his tastes?


It’s vast and endless. From Paul Irving and Irish folk musicians to Bob Dylan to My Morning Jacket.


Have you ever considered being in a film with your mother?


We talk about it. But it would have to be the right circumstances. And it probably wouldn’t be a comedy. I think if I am going to do something with my mother, it is going to be something really special.


Are you a tough person as far as rejection goes – do you handle it well?


I have a very "what’s going to happen will happen" type of attitude. I am the most competitive person in sports and don’t play me in a board game because I will kick your ass. But as far as acting goes, no way. I have never been competitive there. I read something once out of sheer just picking up a magazine and this writer talked about how hard I was to look at. It didn’t bug me. It was his opinion and that’s fine, but I thought `What an uneducated, untalented writer.’ If that is all he could write about, how somebody looked, that’s sad.


What’s your favorite board game?


I love Risk. And I’m a real Backgammon person – I love that game. And Trivial Pursuit.


Do you stay home and play games on Saturday night?


We have game nights, which is fun. But all of our friends really love to play games.


You play different characters in this movie. Which one of those ladies did you like the best?


Elsa was the one that I think I really loved. I mean beyond love. I want to do a spin-off Elsa movie. She was so crazy. The second I was in my Elsa costume, I would just start talking like her.


Do you read the end of a book first like Emma?


I have a hard time finishing books period.


Can you talk about working with Rob Reiner and what is your frame of reference for him – Spinal Tap, All In The Family…?


All of them and The Princess Bride, Stand By Me. That was my favorite. I was just younger than those boys in Stand By Me. And Keifer Sutherland, who I had the biggest crush on for all of the 80s. The movie is all about bad boys. Spinal Tap is another one of my favorites. I’ve always been a big Rob Reiner fan, in general. I’d go out and see all his movies so just the opportunity to work with him was fantastic.


Are you a workaholic?


No. What happened was I took a year off and didn’t work for an entire year. Then I was scheduled to do How To Lose A Guy. Then Jim and Ismail came with Le Divorce and said `we are going to do this right before.’ So I said Okay. Then Rob and Gary came… so I am not a workaholic at all. Nicole (Kidman) is a workaholic. She is somebody who loves to work. Any summer plans?


I am going to go on the road with Chris. He’s going back on tour. And we’re gonna do a bunch of other stuff, I think. It’s going to be a pretty active summer.


Your mom has said she would love to have grandchildren, but she is not pushing you. Is that true?


Yes…. And no (laughs). She is a Jewish mother. My publicist just had a baby and she is like `I am just getting ready’.


And how do you think she’s going to have to wait?


I don’t know. I kind of look at it like, if it happens, but as of now there is no definitive plans. But I do want my kids early enough to really experience my parents young. Because I want my parents to be able to see my kids graduate from high school.


How many kids would you want?


My husband wants a lot. We’ll see once the first one happens. I have thought about adopting, too. I want to experience all that stuff. I definitely want more than two kids, but if I’m tired after two – who knows.


Stress on marriage when two stars are involved – do you have any rules?


A lot of people will say they have the two-week rule. We don’t have that rule. Because then what happens is I will be working on a movie some 16 hour days and if I have a weekend off, the last thing I want to do is get on an airplane and go to Toledo, Ohio and sleep in some strange bed. Then I’d have to come back for Monday at 4:30 in the morning. As far as stress goes, it does put a big strain because you want to be with each other, but it is just hard. We are good, though, man. Nobody is gonna find any anything out about us.
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