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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

OSCAR NOMINEES: Kate Hudson on ‘Glass Onion,’ ‘Music’ and Finding Her Voice (December 2022)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Kate Hudson is a Golden Globe-winning actress who is nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in "Song Sung Blue" at this year’s Oscars. In this conversation from December 2022, Hudson sits down with Willie Geist to discuss her role in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," overcoming her fear of singing in public, and balancing her creative career with running Fabletics and raising a family.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. Today, a conversation with one of my very favorite people to talk with. She is Academy Award nominated actress Kate Hudson. Kate is one of the stars of the highly anticipated new movie Glass Onion. It is the

0:23.6

follow-up to the 2019 hit Knives Out, that hilarious, smart, brilliant, whodunit, and this one is

0:31.8

just as good with a different cast. It is written and directed by the brilliant Ryan Johnson, who comes up with these wild adventures

0:40.6

and these twists and these turns and these mysteries and assembles a cast that includes Kate Hudson,

0:47.1

Janelle Monet, Edward Norton, Daniel Craig is back for this one, Catherine Hahn, who is Kate's old friend from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days coming up on its 20th anniversary.

0:59.2

You'll hear us talk about that.

1:01.0

Incredible cast, just another really fun watch.

1:04.7

And Kate steals the show.

1:06.9

She's so good.

1:07.6

And her character is named Bertie J.

1:09.7

A former model who now runs an activeware company, which is actually something that Kate Hudson does in real life.

1:17.8

So we get into the movie. We get into why she loves Ryan Johnson, why she loves Knives Out in this movie in particular.

1:24.1

But also we talk about her life off camera, which is that she's had this

1:29.3

successful activeware company for 10 years called Fabletics. She's got a vodka company. She's got

1:34.2

all kinds of things going on. Breaks a little news that she's going to put out an album next year.

1:39.4

She's going to be singing for us. My gosh. Also, her oldest son, her oldest child, rider, went off to college

1:47.3

a couple of months ago all the way across the country. So we talk about what that's like to have

1:52.4

your kid fly from the nest. So she's just funny. She's smart. She's charming. She's got it all going on.

2:04.7

She is Kate Hudson right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

2:04.7

Hi, Kate. Hi. Great to see you again. It's so good to see you.

2:08.9

I feel like we've just done a whole interview. We did, but waiting. We can start from the top.

2:12.4

I'm just going to repeat everything we just talked about. The last time I saw you was on Zoom in the

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