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Talk With Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson

Aired September 20, 2002 - 08:51   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: The similarities are striking, the comparisons inevitable. Truth be told, Goldie Hawn and her daughter Kate Hudson are more like best friends than mother and child. And earlier this week, I sat down with the Goldie and Kate for separate interviews, and we talked about their unique bond off screen and their impending face-off in theaters this weekend.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ZAHN: It's all in the family at the box office this weekend. Both Goldie Hawn and her daughter, Kate Hudson, have new movies out.

Let's talk about what's going to happen this weekend. It's the mother versus daughter war at the box office. Who is going to win?

KATE HUDSON, ACTRESS: No, we don't think about it like that.

ZAHN: Goldie's movie, "The Banger Sisters," costarring Susan Sarandon, is about two former groupies. The premise is that you are a rock star groupie in your earlier life.

GOLDIE HAWN, ACTRESS: That's right. I was a groupie. I was a groupie, and you know, with a lot of bands and Jim Morrison and The Who. So we were sort of band-aids. We took care of the bands. We serviced them in many ways, right? And we inspired them.

ZAHN: One-stop shopping.

HAWN: It was. It was one-stop shopping.

Susan's character, she has given it all up. She just denied her past. She wants nothing to do with it.

ZAHN: She has morphed into a woman who is completely turned on by pruning her shrubs?

HAWN: Totally.

ZAHN: Her daughter's movie, "The Fourth Feathers," couldn't no different. It is the latest remake of an adventure novel written in 1902.

Tell us a little bit about your film.

HUDSON: Mom's is a comedy.

ZAHN: Yours is? HUDSON: Is not so comedic. Mine is -- it's a story about a young soldier, played by Heath Ledger, who resigns his commission because he's sent to war and doesn't want to go, because he's afraid, and is sent four feathers, three by his very close friend and one by my character, and I'm his fiancee. The feathers represent cowardice.

ZAHN: These two movies may be setting different morals, but there are some similarities between Goldie's new movie.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HAWN: We are not groupies.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ZAHN: And the film that got Kate her first Oscar nomination at the age of 21, "Almost Famous." In that movie, she played Penny Lane, a young groupie.

HAWN: It is a follow-up, but it wasn't meant to be. I said to Katie, can you imagine if this movie actually gets financed, that I will be doing the older version of Penny Lane?

HUDSON: A completely different, completely different characters, but it's fun. We both got to play groupies. She is a little harder, I think, than Penny Lane would have been.

ZAHN: Kate may have passed on the role of groupies, but it's the veteran actress Goldie who is passing on the advice.

Kate often talks about you getting some of the best advice she has gotten. She is in a brand new marriage, and you told her to take some time off to really enjoy that first year of marriage.

HAWN: Yes, I did.

ZAHN: Why did you feel that strongly?

HAWN: Because we have a business that is extremely trying, and it can be very trying on a relationship, and they pull at you, they take you away from the focus that you need, that's the most important thing in your life, and those are your relationships, because that's what lasts forever.

ZAHN: How solid was mom's advice when she told you that you really should concentrate on that first year of marriage?

HUDSON: She basically said go be a wife for a year. Be the best thing you ever did.

ZAHN: And was it?

HUDSON: Quote, unquote. Oh, yes. Yes, because I got to really establish my relationship with Chris, and being a wife.

ZAHN: Chris is Black Crow's front man Chris Robinson. Kate married him on New Year's Eve 2000, and Kate says she puts him and the rest of her family first, something she's learned from mom.

I know you talk a lot about how important family is to you.

HAWN: Yes.

ZAHN: That is really the core of who you are, isn't it?

HAWN: It is. It really is. It's everything to me.

ZAHN: Your mom just told us what a grounding influence the family is in her life, and that, obviously, is at the core of who you are as well.

HUDSON: Completely.

ZAHN: But for right now, work is taking center stage as both mother and daughter promote their new movies.

Before I let you go, can we talk like two girlfriends here.

HAWN: Yes.

ZAHN: What were with those breasts in "The Banger Sisters?"

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You look so iridescent.

HAWN: Thank you.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HAWN: You mean that is another character in this movie?

ZAHN: Yes.

HAWN: Those breasts, yes, they had a living, breathing, life of their own, let me tell you, and they would just lay right there on my bed to get made up every day, and they were big silicone things.

ZAHN: They played a pivotal role in every scene that you were in.

HAWN: They were definitely pivotal, and I pivoted myself on them once or twice, because every time I would walk into somebody, I would says excuse me -- I've been learning this for a long time, but this one, I wasn't -- but they were part of the gal, you know. She had those big boobs.

ZAHN: Let's hear it for the women of a certain age.

HAWN: Yes!

ZAHN: Bravo. Thank you.

(END VIDEOTAPE) TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com







Aired September 20, 2002 - 08:51   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: The similarities are striking, the comparisons inevitable. Truth be told, Goldie Hawn and her daughter Kate Hudson are more like best friends than mother and child. And earlier this week, I sat down with the Goldie and Kate for separate interviews, and we talked about their unique bond off screen and their impending face-off in theaters this weekend.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ZAHN: It's all in the family at the box office this weekend. Both Goldie Hawn and her daughter, Kate Hudson, have new movies out.

Let's talk about what's going to happen this weekend. It's the mother versus daughter war at the box office. Who is going to win?

KATE HUDSON, ACTRESS: No, we don't think about it like that.

ZAHN: Goldie's movie, "The Banger Sisters," costarring Susan Sarandon, is about two former groupies. The premise is that you are a rock star groupie in your earlier life.

GOLDIE HAWN, ACTRESS: That's right. I was a groupie. I was a groupie, and you know, with a lot of bands and Jim Morrison and The Who. So we were sort of band-aids. We took care of the bands. We serviced them in many ways, right? And we inspired them.

ZAHN: One-stop shopping.

HAWN: It was. It was one-stop shopping.

Susan's character, she has given it all up. She just denied her past. She wants nothing to do with it.

ZAHN: She has morphed into a woman who is completely turned on by pruning her shrubs?

HAWN: Totally.

ZAHN: Her daughter's movie, "The Fourth Feathers," couldn't no different. It is the latest remake of an adventure novel written in 1902.

Tell us a little bit about your film.

HUDSON: Mom's is a comedy.

ZAHN: Yours is? HUDSON: Is not so comedic. Mine is -- it's a story about a young soldier, played by Heath Ledger, who resigns his commission because he's sent to war and doesn't want to go, because he's afraid, and is sent four feathers, three by his very close friend and one by my character, and I'm his fiancee. The feathers represent cowardice.

ZAHN: These two movies may be setting different morals, but there are some similarities between Goldie's new movie.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HAWN: We are not groupies.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ZAHN: And the film that got Kate her first Oscar nomination at the age of 21, "Almost Famous." In that movie, she played Penny Lane, a young groupie.

HAWN: It is a follow-up, but it wasn't meant to be. I said to Katie, can you imagine if this movie actually gets financed, that I will be doing the older version of Penny Lane?

HUDSON: A completely different, completely different characters, but it's fun. We both got to play groupies. She is a little harder, I think, than Penny Lane would have been.

ZAHN: Kate may have passed on the role of groupies, but it's the veteran actress Goldie who is passing on the advice.

Kate often talks about you getting some of the best advice she has gotten. She is in a brand new marriage, and you told her to take some time off to really enjoy that first year of marriage.

HAWN: Yes, I did.

ZAHN: Why did you feel that strongly?

HAWN: Because we have a business that is extremely trying, and it can be very trying on a relationship, and they pull at you, they take you away from the focus that you need, that's the most important thing in your life, and those are your relationships, because that's what lasts forever.

ZAHN: How solid was mom's advice when she told you that you really should concentrate on that first year of marriage?

HUDSON: She basically said go be a wife for a year. Be the best thing you ever did.

ZAHN: And was it?

HUDSON: Quote, unquote. Oh, yes. Yes, because I got to really establish my relationship with Chris, and being a wife.

ZAHN: Chris is Black Crow's front man Chris Robinson. Kate married him on New Year's Eve 2000, and Kate says she puts him and the rest of her family first, something she's learned from mom.

I know you talk a lot about how important family is to you.

HAWN: Yes.

ZAHN: That is really the core of who you are, isn't it?

HAWN: It is. It really is. It's everything to me.

ZAHN: Your mom just told us what a grounding influence the family is in her life, and that, obviously, is at the core of who you are as well.

HUDSON: Completely.

ZAHN: But for right now, work is taking center stage as both mother and daughter promote their new movies.

Before I let you go, can we talk like two girlfriends here.

HAWN: Yes.

ZAHN: What were with those breasts in "The Banger Sisters?"

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You look so iridescent.

HAWN: Thank you.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HAWN: You mean that is another character in this movie?

ZAHN: Yes.

HAWN: Those breasts, yes, they had a living, breathing, life of their own, let me tell you, and they would just lay right there on my bed to get made up every day, and they were big silicone things.

ZAHN: They played a pivotal role in every scene that you were in.

HAWN: They were definitely pivotal, and I pivoted myself on them once or twice, because every time I would walk into somebody, I would says excuse me -- I've been learning this for a long time, but this one, I wasn't -- but they were part of the gal, you know. She had those big boobs.

ZAHN: Let's hear it for the women of a certain age.

HAWN: Yes!

ZAHN: Bravo. Thank you.

(END VIDEOTAPE) TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com