Why Kate Hudson turned down a defining role in Kurt Russell film

Kate Hudson was running point on her career from an early age.The actress, 46, who is the daughter of actress Goldie Hawn, revealed during a live taping of the “Awards Chatter” podcast while at Newport Beach TV Fest on Thursday why she turned down an acting job at the age of 16.At the time, Hudson had begun seriously auditioning for roles when her stepdad, Kurt Russell, wanted her to try out for the part of a young girl in his 1996 project “Escape from L.A.”“I went in and auditioned and got that part, and I sort of realized, ‘Oh, this is when you start to make choices that will define your career,'” she recalled.“And, ‘Do I want to be defined by being Kurt’s daughter who got this part? No.'”“[It doesn’t] matter if I got it because I was good enough,” continued Hudson, “it would never be what people would ever think.

And I knew that and was like, ‘No, I can’t.’ So I ended up saying no to that, too.”The “Running Point” star shared that she went on other auditions and ended up landing a small part of series like “Party of Five” and “EZ Streets.” A few years later, Hudson landed her breakout role as Penny lane in the 2000 comedy/adventure “Almost Famous.”But one thing was for certain, Hudson always knew she wanted to be an actress.The “Bride Wars” alum also recalled visiting Russell, 74, on location as a young child, which spurred her love of acting.“My dad’s sets were the fun sets,” Hudson told the audience.“It was like ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ and we had slides that would go down into rubber fish, and these amazing costumes.”“And the thing is, when you grow up on a movie set, it’s not that fun,” she admitted.

“[There] is a lot of waiting around, so you realize you really love it when you don’t want to get off the movie set.”Hawn, 79, first started dating Russell in 1983, and the “Glass Onion” actress shared that in order to be on set with either of her parents, she h...