As the child of singer Bill Hudson and actress Goldie Hawn, performing is in Kate Hudson’s blood. Her breakout role came in 2000 as Penny Lane in Almost Famous, earning her a Golden Globe award and Oscar nomination. Still, Hudson never could shake the desire to branch out into other art forms. The How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star fulfilled a girlhood dream when she dropped her debut album, Glorious, last May. Eight months later, Hudson, 45, performed her first-ever live show. And if she has anything to say about it, it won’t be her last.
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Kate Hudson Wants to Go on Tour
Thursday (Feb. 20) marked a turning point in Kate Hudson’s 30-year career as an entertainer. The Glass Onion actress performed during Vernon Kay’s Piano Room show on BBC Radio 2.
Backed up by the BBC Concert Orchestra, Hudson performed “Talk About Love,” the lead single from Glorious. She also sang “Right On Time,” off the album’s newly-released deluxe version, and covered Ariana Grande’s “we can’t be friends (wait for your love.)”
“It’s my first live show, ever!” an ecstatic Hudson told Kay. “So I’m just honored to be here.”
She continued, “I love to write, and I love to sing, and it’s this, this year of like, getting out in front of people has been really, really amazing for me. Very different.”
While this was Hudson’s first live performance, the Fools Gold actress hopes there will be more. “I feel like I just want to keep singing, and I’d really like to go on tour, and hopefully that will happen at some point,” she said.
She Wants to Star in a Musical
Kate Hudson’s sudden turn as a pop star has many fans questioning if she’ll abandon Hollywood. For now, however, the A-lister wants to have her cake and eat it too.
“I just want to keep making music, and I want to keep making movies, and I’d actually like to do both at one point. I mean, that’s my next goal,” she told Vernon Kay.
For Hudson, the ultimate dream is to “go method” in a Stevie Nicks biopic. “I would probably go way too far into that character,” she confessed in a June 2024 interview with Rolling Stone. “I think for all girls who love rock, Stevie’s just our number one.”
Despite that lifelong dream, Hudson told Kay she believes she has “aged out” of playing the young Fleetwood Mac frontwoman.
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