Kate Hudson on ‘Song Sung Blue’ and Movie She’d Make With Goldie Hawn

Kate Hudson’s still got it, and she’s ready to remind you all. But first, she pauses mid-interview to answer a call.

It’s her 14-year-old son, a dedicated drummer who’s recently broken two cymbals. “Sweetheart, I’m in the middle of an interview, and I love you so much, but I can’t do this right now,” she says gently. “We’ll get your cymbals, I promise.”

It’s a charming, off-script moment that captures something essential about Hudson: grounded, warm and always playing multiple roles — mother, artist, movie star. And in Craig Brewer’s “Song Sung Blue,” she delivers a performance that feels like the culmination of a life lived in the spotlight and on the sidelines of it.

While many are calling the role a comeback, Hudson doesn’t see it that way. “I don’t like reading anything because it makes me anxious,” she admits.

Hudson’s turn as Claire Sardinia — a woman navigating music, love and loss within a Neil Diamond cover band — is raw and revelatory. She breaks her own heart open on screen and sifts through the pieces in front of all of us. It’s a portrayal filled with tenderness and turbulence, and as many have noted, perhaps the finest work of her career.

“I knew the movie wouldn’t work if people didn’t believe the love story,” she says of the onscreen romance with Hugh Jackman. “That was my biggest concern going in.”

So, Hudson made sure their chemistry had room to grow. “I told Hugh, ‘I’m super tactile. We need to really get to know each other and find this intimacy.’” Their first bonding experience wasn’t a rehearsal, rather a recording session. “The first thing we did was sing. It came really easy.”

The film, based on a true story and steeped in Diamond’s extensive catalog, also marked a long-awaited collaboration with Brewer. Hudson had admired the director since “Hustle and Flow.” “We’ve been circling each other for 20…