{"id":7332,"date":"2026-01-23T20:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=7332"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:53:16","slug":"kate-hudson-just-revealed-the-unexpected-reason-she-bonded-so-deeply-with-hugh-jackman-while-filming-song-sung-blue-and-it-happened-before-the-cameras-ever-rolled-at-the-films-lond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=7332","title":{"rendered":"Kate Hudson just revealed the unexpected reason she bonded so deeply with Hugh Jackman while filming Song Sung Blue \u2014 and it happened before the cameras ever rolled. At the film\u2019s London premiere, Kate shared that their connection began inside a recording studio. Quiet. Exposed. No acting. No defenses. Just two people and the music. \u201cAfter that moment,\u201d she admitted, \u201cwe didn\u2019t have to manufacture emotion anymore.\u201d That rare starting point followed them onto the screen \u2014 and explains why certain scenes feel uncomfortably real… Watch below \ud83d\udc47"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate Hudson\u00a0and\u00a0Hugh Jackman\u00a0are receiving rave reviews for their new film\u00a0Song Sung Blue<\/em>, based on the true story of Mike and Claire Sardina, who performed as the Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder in the 1980s. Kate and Hugh have been touring the world to premiere the film, and in London on November 21,\u00a0Kate spoke of the \u201cvulnerable\u201d position she found herself in while connecting with her co-star.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCraig [Brewer, the director] wanted to start in the recording studio, that was really the first time Hugh and I connected which was really nice because it\u2019s very quiet, and you\u2019re quite vulnerable when you\u2019re in a recording studio,\u201d Kate told the audience, which included\u00a0HELLO!<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cYou make a lot of mistakes and so it was great to break the ice that way,\u201d she said, which you can watch in the video above.<\/p>\n

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Kate and Hugh attend the Song Sung Blue UK premiere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mom-of-three Kate went on to share that, aside from finding the voices of Mike and Clare, working in the studio also helped her and Hugh to find their own voices together as actors.<\/p>\n

\u201cCraig gave me great freedom for my harmonies and pushed me as well at times, saying, \u2018You can lean into that more,\u2019 and it was a wonderful way to begin this whole process,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Kate and Hugh star in Song Sung Blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Song Sung Blue<\/em>\u00a0is based on the 2008 documentary of the same name about Mike and Claire , who met in 1987 and formed the tribute band Lightning and Thunder. The pair fell in love, and performed in the Milwaukee and Chicago area throughout the 1980s and 1990s, even opening for Pearl Jam.<\/p>\n

Deadline\u00a0<\/em>praised the film for \u201cnever losing the delicate tone of this musical comedy\/drama\u201d and called Kate \u201csimply sensational,\u201d and that Hugh \u201cis as good as he has ever been playing a complicated guy who finds his groove in the music of an iconic singer\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is the kind of robust entertainment \u2014 wholesome though not at all toothless, alternately joyful and heart-wrenching \u2014 that doesn\u2019t get made much anymore,\u201d wrote The Hollywood Reporter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kate Hudson\u00a0and\u00a0Hugh Jackman\u00a0are receiving rave reviews for their new film\u00a0Song Sung Blue, based on the true story of Mike and Claire Sardina, who performed as the Neil… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7334,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions\/7334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}