'Almost Famous,' 'Song Sung Blue' star Kate Hudson: 'A good music movie is hard to do'

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In the latest episode of The Envelope video podcast, Tonatiuh discusses the grassroots efforts he spearheaded to get “Kiss of the Spider Woman” in front of communities Hollywood may not always reach, and “Song Sung Blue’s” Kate Hudson explains what makes a good music movie.Kelvin Washington: Hello, everyone, welcome to another episode of The Envelope.Kelvin Washington here.

You know who I’m with: Yvonne Villarreal, Mark Olsen, glad to be here with you.Thanks for watching and listening.

All right, let’s get it started.Mark, you had a chance to talk to Tonatiuh.

And of course, this is a big moment for him.This is something he worked hard for and now getting a lot of recognition for — “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” Tell me a little bit more about your chat.Mark Olsen: That’s right.

So earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, there just was this great moment at the premiere of Bill Condon’s adaptation of the musical version of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” where just to see a showcase like this for someone is so exciting.Tonatiuh, he’s acting, he’s singing, he’s dancing.

There’s like so much in this performance.It’s wonderful to to see.

He has a lot of poise and charisma just simply in conversation.So it made for a really exciting talk.Washington: And also the difficulty playing multiple roles, right? I mean, I would imagine that would have been challenging.Olsen: That’s right, in the structure of the film, he plays a political prisoner in a South American jail and he’s explaining a favorite movie of his to his cellmate, played by Diego Luna, and then he also becomes the dashing leading man of that movie [within] the movie.Washington: Right.

Diego, also Jennifer Lopez, so obviously around some big stars.I swing over to you — speaking of big stars, Kate Hudson has been one for for a long time.Villarreal: I thought you were talking ...