Kate Hudson, famous for her rom-com films such as How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Bride Wars and Fool's Gold, has opened up about how she was often typecast due to those films and how they stopped filmmakers from considering her for more serious roles.
At the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Kate Hudson said, "It was clear that that’s where the industry liked to hire me, and then my goal, my hope, was to make the best versions of those. In that time, it was also like there are a lot of factors: you’ve got your team, and you’ve got people saying, ‘We really think you should do this; these are great directors.’ And then you have moments where you’re also like, ‘That’s a lot of money, and I’m a single mom."
However, Hudson eventually wanted to break the monotony and do something different. "(But) I was starting to be like, I really want to be doing something different. And I think when you become really famous doing that genre, it’s hard for certain filmmakers to see you in anything other than what we’re watching. These sorts of things are like, ‘Well, transforming isn’t what she does,’ when, in fact, it’s what I love to do," she explained.
Hudson, who recently bagged her second Academy Award nomination for her performance in Song Sung Blue, is hopeful for more opportunities that will allow her to try new things. "It doesn’t mean to me that all of a sudden I just want to be doing this for the concept of the accolades; I want to do it to put people in the theatre too. This feels like the beginning of maybe that part where I get to do a little bit more transformations than maybe I’ve been able to do in the past.”
Still, the actor says that rom-coms are not easy to nail and that a successful romantic comedy is more difficult than it may seem. “I think it’s one of the hardest genres to get right," she said, adding, "(Rom-coms need to be approached) with the intention like everybody does a great film, not with the intention of making a rom-com."
Hudson received her first Oscar nomination for Almost Famous. She is currently busy with the second season of Mindy Kaling's Running Point for Netflix.
