Kate Hudson

0:03Hello and welcome to Table Manners. I'm Jessie Ware. We're at my house and Lenny's here and She's bloody late. I'm so sorry. Lost my glasses. You can't really do much about that if you lose your glasses. No, but I did have my reading glasses, but I wouldn't be able to drive here. Really? Yeah, because I can't see without my glasses to drive. And if I had an accident, I'd get prosecuted and put in prison for not wearing proper glasses and lose my licence. Oh, I forgive you for our tardy issue. So I've left the house looking like I've been robbed because every drawer is open because I try to find other glasses.

0:35that I found them in a wardrobe that was shut. Don't know how they got there. But here I am with them. So this is coming out on New Year's Eve, so I hope you have a gorgeous new year. Here's to 2026. Oh, yeah, let's hope it's a good one. We have, firstly, we have the amazing Kate Hudson that we have wanted and has been dangled by her PR for a few years, but we are thrilled to have her. Have you got the martinis ready? She does like a dirty martini. I know. I hope she brings her own vodka. Oh, yes. King Street Vodka. King Street Vodka. This woman is a bit like Reese Witherspoon. She's an entrepreneur.

1:13She's got that fabletics. Yeah. She's got a vodka range. She's got sibling revelry with her brother, her podcast. She's also probably going to be up for an Oscar for this film that we're chatting about. I'm going to get the sing and the song and the song wrong. Song Song Blue. Song Song Blue. Neil Diamond. it's such a brilliant film it's um Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman playing this kind of down on their luck and lightning they're a Neil Diamond tribute act and they're in Milwaukee and her accent the Milwaukee accent is so brilliant so and she's completely charming as she always is but it's a really beautiful film and you should go and see it it's not really like one of usually she does the good old kind of glossy wrong com yeah that's what this is much more earthy and really about finding love when you're a bit older she's got two children single parent Hugh Jackman's wonderful in it as well and let's talk about Kate Hudson's voice oh her voice who well she did have an album out she did have in 2034 voice is insane yeah she's brilliant I'm so excited to meet her because i think she's going to be really fun her mother's film overboard is my greatest film ever so the greatest film i'm going to try and hold that back i wonder if her mom lets her watch that when they were little whether they watched that a lot yeah i'm going to ask her when she thinks it's an age-appropriate time to let your child watch overboard i so i had this gig last night so i prepped this meal it's 10 o 'clock in the morning when we're doing this so it's a brekkie this could go one way or the other every american that comes here well every American that comes here always wants to eat curry right so I decided to do from my trusty cookbook for breakfast Good Eggs is by Ed Smith and it's just so brilliant and he's got this really good runny yolked eggs with quick dal and parata wow and I've prepped I did the dal yesterday the dal is banging it is quite garlicky so I'm sorry if she's on the one show later or something like that i've done my jammy eggs who knows if they're going to be jammy and i've got the paratas which is my favorite hack which i learned from my wonderful yoga teacher helen who also gave me my starter god bless helen those frozen paratas so i haven't had to do any bloody dough stuff you just put them in a frying pan and then they um puff up puff up and so i've got them in the oven on a very low heat let's see so it's all kind of prepped but hopefully it will like taste delicious I think it'll be delicious.

3:46And then, because I'm that kind of gal, just made an olive oil cake, sure, the Topaz. Of course you did, darling. Which I'll get their cookbook. Wow. They've just closed for their season, so they close on fireworks night, so they'll be open again in March. But in their brilliant, brilliant cookbook, they've got, I mean, look at this, like, it's so grubby in my book. No, I think I could close after fireworks night and wake up in March. I can't find it, but it's the olive oil cake. I think I did it for Noel Gallagher. It's really good. So I've got to just peel my eggs now, if you don't mind. Kate Hudson coming up on Table Manners.

4:32Kate Hudson is here looking fabulous in Burgundy. I don't know, Merlot, what would we call it? I like Merlot. Aubergine? Okay, we're going everywhere. There's sort of like colours of this winter, isn't there? You look like maroon, aubergine, whatever. And then blue. Those seem to be like everywhere. Song, song, blue. How are you? You flew in yesterday? I'm good. Yeah. Well, no, we were in Berlin. We flew in yesterday from Berlin. So I'm not like too crazy. Your dress in Berlin was beautiful. A blue dress. Was it colder in Berlin than it is today in London? It's colder here. This is mad. This is unlike.

5:12I know. It's so cool. I know, it really is. I was like, this is shockingly cool. Yes. As someone who's lived here, you know, I've spent a lot of time on New York. Yes. Yeah, I was like, I kind of love it, though. It's giving New York. Yeah, it does. And it is beautiful. It's sunny. Yeah. This is very New York. This is perfect. So you're coming, well, we're talking about the film. Yeah. You are so good in it. Did you see it? I loved it. Oh, great. I loved it, too. Did you? I think it's your best ever part. Oh, thanks. For me, it was just so wonderful. Thank you. I had so much fun doing it. Did you?

5:50Yeah, yeah. I mean, there was hard moments, obviously, but it was just such a great, it was a joy. It really was. That accent. Oh, that accent. I love it. I know. It was so much fun to do because it's such a character, you know. Milwaukee. Milwaukee. And who else has played a Milwaukee? Wisconsin. like i'm just trying to it reminds me of patricia did patricia arquette play a milwaukee what's the act in milwaukee you know that um that film that tv show about the um gypsy rose was she oh yeah i feel like something yeah that's so funny i think that was milwaukee maybe because it has a similar yeah in that in that i think that was in that area yeah but your accent's amazing you're the most kind of it's a beautiful part and your voice sounds incredible voice it's just wonderful thank you i mean you do have an album and you know i i know you sing and actually your cousin sarah hudson yeah and i wrote a song of mine called pearls together you did and i love that woman isn't she the best she's fantastic that's my cuz she's fab yeah you've never met sarah hudson You wouldn't forget her.

6:58No. You wouldn't forget her. She's tattooed up like everywhere. She's an Italian witch. She's fabulous. She is an Italian witch. So am I. But, you know, mine's a little less obvious. Got lots of different heritage. Haven't you? I do. Yeah, tell us about that. My heritage is, yeah, it's funny because when I did my DNA, I don't know my dad very well. I know him, but we didn't have like a very close relationship. And he was always like the Italian, there's Sicilian, Sicilian. I was always like, yeah, right. You know, how Sicilian are you? And then I did my DNA and, you know, I'm half Sicilian. So I'm half Italian.

7:34And then my mom is a Hungarian Jew and then German and Swedish. But then inside of that is like East Asian. I have North African. I, yeah, it's like a kind of a bit of a, you know, there's a lot of, there's a lot, a little bit of everywhere except South America. I'm really jealous. Isn't it? I think your DNA is fascinating. But you're European, really. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, Sicilian, which is where the North African comes from, because there's like two, almost 3 % African, which is definitely comes from that part of the world. But then my, you can, you can draw from our lineage all the way back to 1650, which is really fascinating.

8:22And on the Italian side, they lived in the same village for like a hundred, I mean forever. Like they never left this little village. Do you know which village it was? Well, one part was this village called Caltinacetta. And it's in kind of like the middle of Sicily, a little bit closer to Palermo. Any mafioso? Well. You'll find out. Yeah, actually. Actually, the lore in our family is it actually is very connected to mafia. Oh, wow. I know you'll protect us yeah you'll be all right now that I know I don't know I don't know them but but apparently yes apparently like my cousins that side is very much you know they've been naughty let's take it back to your childhood and and who was around the dinner table and what was a very memorable dish from your childhood oh these are my favorite I'm I love to cook you've done cookbooks oh yeah yeah yeah like i i it's like i always say if i wasn't doing if i wasn't an artist i'd be an artist in the kitchen and at home with my table and my in design like i just love to cook and um and my mom is like the one pot wonder so i grew up with like a mother that was could throw anything into a pot with no ingredient no cookbook no nothing and somehow it tasted amazing.

9:46So Goldie Hawn is the one. Goldie Hawn, 80 years old. Two days. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to mama. Yeah. And, but she is, yeah. So it kind of started with that and that she could just sort of experiment. And my grandma was an amazing cook, but she was a very traditional Jewish cook. Like, we made challah, amazing matzo balls. brisket. Her brisket was to die for. You know, latkes. We did all of that. And she'd make the best French toast, challah French toast. Challah French toast is the best. The best. Yeah. And so I got a lot of that. And then I call her my second mother, Celia Campos, Mexican, was an amazing cook.

10:37And so I learned from – it's very like Los Angeles, growing up with someone in your life who is Mexican. And I learned how to cook great Mexican food. So I can cook like tacos, enchiladas. So I really – and food was always in our house. What's your best filling for a taco or an enchilada? What would you put in it? Oh, for me? Yeah. Chicken In my house In my family Did you go for hot? Yes I was at a wedding And they had at a stand Tequila shots with birria shots Consummate And so you'd have the shot It was delicious Yum Quite a fun kind of appetiser-y cocktail party I love that Yeah, it was good.

11:35It was really fun. So if we were coming around to yours, and you were cooking for us, would it be Mexican that you were going to be cooking us? It'd be Italian. Because now that I've gotten older, like I just, I remember being 15 years old, and my friend was making a pasta. She thought she was like, you know, when you get like older, and you start cooking for yourself. And my one friend who was like, thought she was this great cook. And I was watching her cook this pasta. And I was like, instinctually, I was like, this is all wrong. Like, I don't know what she's doing. Like, that's not how you do pasta.

12:07She's doing it. Like, what is she putting the thing? It's too, you know, soft. And so I got really into cooking pasta. And then I got into making my own pasta. And then I was like, wait, I'm Italian. Like, I need to get into cooking more Italian food. So pasta, pasta, you know, Italian. Which is the favorite in the house? i make a kind of well for me honestly my favorite pasta to make is a very simple summer cherry tomato pasta because i think that the most beautiful pastas are like the simplest um but like i make a really good bucatini with like pancetta that's a spicy kind of pancetta with bucatini and then my kids love this pasta that's more of like a carbonara type base but it's peas and corn this is not a really italian thing but it's peas and corn and pancetta and it's like a white wine kind of reduction you know you reduce the white wine yeah it's it's it's so how to make it creamy double cream at the end you just oh you just put the cream no eggs in that one no eggs no eggs and lots of parmesan a lot of parmesan that sounds delicious it's delicious and also like with kids like you put a pea in it and they'll probably go with it rather than you know what I mean it's yeah I don't know I'm sure your kids aren't as fussy as mine it's such a good pasta but it's also like not it's just it was sort of like a mishmash of different things and then it became like the family pasta can you tell me I know you love a dirty martini as do I Is it too early for you?

13:47I had one last night. Oh, did you? Where did you have one? At my friend's house. Was it good? Did you make it? It was actually really good. Yeah, but they put a little vermouth in it. I'm not a vermouth person. Oh, what's it mean when you have it dry then? Is that without vermouth? That's without vermouth. I like a dry... Tell me what you put in if you don't put vermouth in. Kate, please do tell. Just vodka. Just vodka. And olive juice. I could do a wash, but you know what I've been doing lately? What's a wash? A wash of vermouth. So you like put the vermouth in it and you kind of roll the glass and then pour it out.

14:19That's nice because it kind of like – Just gives the flavor. And it just has like a little like – it kind of takes the edge off of the – Neat bud. Yeah. But I've been doing olive oil. So I'll do a wash of olive oil. And I get like a spicy olive oil. Also been getting obsessed with different olive oils. There's this woman in Los Angeles who has an amazing company where she gets all of the young olive oil because obviously the young olive oil is what you want. That's more like fiery. Or not. Well, no, they all taste different. It's more like that's where you get all the health, the properties that actually are healthy for you.

14:59Once it's like 14 months, 15 months old, it's just fat. All the good stuff goes. Oh, okay. So I've been getting really obsessed with like, you know, young olive oil and taking it every day. And anyway, there's this one that's really spicy. It's from Peru. It's got like a spicy note. Peru? Peru, Peru, Peru, Peru. Peru, Peru, Peru. Yeah. And it's amazing. And I wash my martini glass with it. And then I just kind of, I put it in there, I roll it around, and then I put the glass, you know, upside down for like a couple minutes so that it's not like oily, oily. You are. It's pretty committed. Yeah.

15:42But it's so good. But have you made that up yourself? Yeah. I just thought like, well, let me put olive oil in there. But doesn't it leave a kind of greasy residue? Yeah, but it's fine. You don't mind. Yeah, but sometimes you get that with the brine. And I'm, okay, this is very interesting and I'm very, I'm into a dirty martini. I've actually never made one myself because I know. I'm not drinking them at home really, but it's definitely like my go-to drink. You should think not. Well, maybe at the end of the hard day. I started to make drinks at home because I drink less if I make a drink. Meaning like if I came home and had some wine, I might go for like two glasses of wine.

16:20You can't do too many. but once I make if I come home and I'm like I'm gonna make myself a martini and I'll make a martini and I'll just have a martini and then that's it do you ice the glass do you put the glass in the fridge or put ice in it and then take the ice out so the glass is really cold or is the vodka in the freezer I do the vodka in the freezer I sometimes do the glass but I think I I usually just have the vodka so judging by your attention to detail with the olive oil that you're using i'm presuming king street vodka is pretty bloody good it was great it was great i don't do it anymore i love doing my vodka just because it's complicated long story okay um but it's a the alcohol business is a really challenging business and you have to really move around the world and the country and the states selling selling vodka you know what i mean selling your spirit like it's a full-time job and and it's all about your partners and so we just unfortunately not doing my thing but fabletics is like thriving yeah fabletics is like i mean you're an entrepreneur yeah not like by design you know it's so funny i i really started fabletics because i well well my partners at the time they they came to me first and at the time people weren't really doing that kind of thing you know we were we're sort of more like an actor you would want to get a campaign and you would do an endorsement and i was sort of like why am i why am i if if someone wants to pay me that amount of money to endorse i wonder how much money I could make actually building something of my own.

18:13And it wasn't like a, you know, again, overthought. It was just sort of like, yeah, let me do something that's going to be fun and more accessible and I can reach more women and actually something that like, I'm passionate about and I believe in and maybe I can inspire some women to like, get healthy and fit. And I had no idea the amount of success that Fabletics was going to have. It just, it just like came out like we launched and then it just, it just blew up and it was so awesome. And I did that pretty intensely for like almost a decade. And then I was like, okay, I did it. I'm not, I don't want to be a CEO.

18:52I don't, running companies is not my, is not where I love to be all the time. I'm a creative. I love building. So like the idea of building something new and create like the creative part of it, I love. But the day-to-day of running business is, it's a lot of work. And the great thing was, is it allowed me to be home with my kids at a time where I really needed to be home. And it was like this blessing because I had a job that was fulfilling and could pay my bills. And then I could do like little projects here and there and not take me far away from home because I'm a homebody and I love being with my kids.

19:37And so I feel really lucky. But then once I had done it, like, you know, been working with yoga pants for like eight to 10 years and building that community, I was like, I think we've they've got it and I can go make music and and start writing more I've really been writing a lot and writing songs I write all kinds of things you know I just love to write all of it all of it I want to I'm right I write stories I sit and I journal I write music poetry I don't know if it's any good but i do i do it all the time can we i'm really interested to know how your like exercise regime like in a week what it would look like now and has it changed since like launching fabletics like i mean no i've always been super i was i danced so like if i'm not moving i feel awful you know and that i'm like the kind of person that's like even if it's 20 minutes a day you're golden like i sometimes say to people who are like oh i'm like just going for 20 minutes just like move your body just go like lift some weights and stand in front of the mirror and just do something you know because even if you're doing that you're gonna it it like you know becomes a domino effect of you wanting to feel stronger and healthier and go for a walk like do something to to circulate i can't i like even this morning it's like i couldn't not wake up and move my body so what did you do I just do weird stuff it depends on how I'm feeling to this morning I did like more yoga stretching and like you know I mean you're on a flight yesterday so I'm sure yeah and then I'll do I do all kinds of stuff like I I'll do anything you know but weights is super important like strength training has become the thing as I've gotten older that I that I really really love and I can feel the difference when I'm doing really good strength training with my body strength training weights yeah weights but it's like functional training so it's also mobility so it's like weight and like mobility in your spine and your you know hip joints and I do for a lot Kate could just pop into Sam's gym at the end if you need to have a little move yeah you could just go and have a little quick go I love it I love it if and and I'm like the kind of person that goes to the gym like a huge jackman who's who we are in this movie together oh yeah for sure i knew that okay but it's so nice because like you know when you when you and and he's a and he's a dancer he moves he's like you know when you when you work with people that are you know that that love to move it's a completely different type of even acting experience because you're so physical you know and i'm super physical i now have sulemon going in my head yeah you do i mean how about that song it's a great it's a great opener he was correct he was right but where did it i don't i didn't know any neil diamond i don't think i'd ever heard sulemon till i heard it on the film when i got this movie and i read the script i was like Like everyone knows who Neil Diamond is.

22:52Yeah. But then when I started listening to the songs, because there were songs, song titles written in the script. And I remember thinking, Suleiman, what is that? No, I've never heard that one. Or I've been here before, or I've been this way before. I'd never heard that song, the last song that I sang in the movie. It was shocking to me how much music he's written. and that we don't really know. We know Sweet Caroline. It's become like this big football thing for England. But I mean, is it big in the States, Sweet Caroline? Oh, yeah. I think Sweet Caroline's like an anthem everywhere. Is it? Well, yeah.

23:35Football. Because when is this film set? In the 80s? It's like late 80s, early 90s. I mean, it's set in the 90s, but they kind of like, it's a great thing about our our costume designer ernesto martinez who is so great but his whole thing was like it's the 90s it's pearl jam era but but they're sort of stuck in the 80s they were like she's in a little tracksuit they're forever in the 80s i i've claire still is in the 80s you know it's like that's her vibe yeah that's her hair was that your hair yeah oh you're I did. I used my hair. Oh my goodness. Did you come all night? No, I hot rollered it every morning and we sprayed the shit out of it.

24:18And it was so, that hair was when like the second those rollers came out, my hairdresser, Johnny, he killed it with the hair, but he, he was the second they came, they came out. It was almost like everyone was just like, there she is. There she is. She showed up this morning. I mean, it was wild. We tried on a couple different wigs. We were going to use wigs. And then because of where the movie goes, it was like, I don't want to go through all of that and have a wig. It'll feel – I need to be able to, like, have my real hair. But when you're in your subbit, your hair went off. Yeah. And then when you were better, your hair was – She loves setting her hair.

25:04Her hair was just great. Yeah, and so I think that was really important, you know, obviously, because it's, you know, wants it, we want it to be as real as possible. Have you met Neil Diamond? Yeah, yes. Tell us about that. I did. Well, Neil, actually, I grew up in Colorado. I'm going to, please start the story. I'm going to start turning the whole story. Oh, okay, okay. So he lives in Colorado. I grew up in Colorado and I knew he was in Colorado, but then after he had seen the movie, I had heard from Hugh that he absolutely loved the movie. And I got this email. I called him and I was like, or I called someone.

25:48I was like, I'd really love to see, is he here? Is he in Colorado? Because I was in Colorado where I grew up. And they were like, yeah. And I called, is it, can I go over to his house and say hi? And so I went over. Did you have to ask his permission to do? Yeah, well, not me. Craig Brewer, our writer-director. And Hugh was... Hugh... Oh, wow. Here we go. Hugh was a part of the movie before the script was even written. So Craig had this idea and the documentary and then was attached to it. Craig wrote the script. I read the script and I read it just as a script that was out there and I loved it.

26:35But then I got a call from Craig later to see if, you know, like two years later. Oh, and to finish that, yes. So then Neil, who really knew this couple, because it's a real true story, who knew this couple, he gave the whole catalog permission for Craig to use the catalog. Fantastic. And what's he like? Neil? Oh lovely. So nice. His wife Katie's great too and great family. Super sweet. He still performs doesn't he? No he's retired. Has he retired now? Yeah he's living in Colorado just chilling.

27:27so this is um ed smith's good eggs from his cookbook it's a it's called a quick dal with jammy eggs and then you serve it with paratha so there you go this looks amazing and then you've got lime pickle mango chutney and some yogurt if you want some oh my god so you just squished it Oh no, you don't say me Not when you wipe down the ball Trousers Okay, fine So that is what we're having So dig in This is amazing What's the rest of your day looking like? Do you have lots of Press, press, press This is the best way to start Wait, this is so yummy My breakfast It's a perfect breakfast Really good, Jess so good tell me how you did this these are my this is a hack i'm being a bit nora efron okay about it they're from a supermarket in uh peckham which has got um pre-made paratas so what you do you have them frozen they're all laid out and then you just heat them up in a pan um because i love you kate but i'm not sure i could have um done a parata very well and they're so good and they're like my little hack that and Actually, they're really fun for brunch.

28:44They're amazing. You can have loads of different fillings and everyone kind of, and my kids will eat them too. Mmm. Mmm. I'm so happy right now. There you go. Great. My mom loves India so much. And she has traveled there since the 70s. Almost once a year, except the last decade. So I grew up with a ton of Indian food. Always a dollar in the fridge. Do you practice Hinduism? Have I made that up? Are you a Buddhist? My mom got really into Buddhism. So, yeah. A lot of meditation in the house. New Year's Eve. Is that a big one for you? Yes. Do you already know what you're doing for New Year's Eve?

29:19We have a party every year. Oh, do you? We go to Colorado and we just have a really fun family party. I do. Yeah. It's our favorite party of the year. Like, we have the best time. We do a big bonfire and we throw, we write down everything we want to, like, just get rid of and we throw it in the fire. I like that. Mm-hmm. And the bonfire's huge. it's like you're up to your ceiling and then we just sit outside and get weird and get drums and drums oh yeah it's really fun who's on the drums everybody whoever there's people there we everybody takes a drum or something kind of instrument and just gets weird so what right what are you hoping for 2026 you know it was a hard year for us where we live in the palisades oh man so we got home and we had the best like Christmas and New Year's and then we get home it was my son's 21st birthday and our city lit on fire and Ryder I had I had a whole thing planned for him for his 21st and we ended up being evacuated from our house and in a hotel with friends and neighbors all in the same hotel and one by one watching people lose their home and it was I can't even explain how awful it was.

30:36It was really awful, like catastrophic. And you're like, it's completely surreal. Everybody was amazing. Obviously, this is a place in the world where people can afford a certain kind of way of life that there was a lot of gratitude for that. But at the same time, what I knew, yeah. And mine, ours survived great, like thankfully we still, we have our house. But this is where I grew up. I mean, I went to the Palisades, a really interesting place because it's like a small, it is like a little small town in LA. And it's the only thing, it's like the place I like in LA, you know. and watching watching your like childhood landmarks just go away it was it was honestly it was like what and i remember when it was when it was done and we could go see it um i remember you know one of the one of the national guard guys was like i've seen every i've seen a lot of like catastrophic burnt down areas like i've never seen anything like this it's really was like it really was an altadena same anyway so that's how we brought in 2025 so so you know i'm looking forward to a peaceful transition into 2026 and uh you know no no fires i'm hoping knock and that it's just going to be a wonderful, peaceful year.

32:14Kate, you're going to a desert island for a very, very long time. Oh, yeah. You have an appetizer, a main, and a dessert, and a drink of choice. What are you going to have for your last supper? Are we going to start with a dirty martini? It's got to be a dirty martini. Yeah. It's so hard because it's always between Italian food and Japanese food. have both you know there's an italian japanese restaurant in dalston really yeah and it does really well it's called angelina is it good apparently it's amazing i've been like how does that work but apparently it's amazing it's my two favorite foods maybe you need to eat there whilst you're here maybe i do and they'd like it's like a fusion yeah wow so italian japanese are we gonna do that my appetizer would be oh my god you know when you love food so much it's like impossible about okay this is your last supper for today okay okay my appetizer would be a version of a cooked and raw seafood tower oh okay i'm going secret i like that okay i'm just go so you know so there's more than just one thing i'd probably do like a baked clam like an italian style baked clam would that be with like breadcrumbs okay garlic garlic and butter lovely It's like a real Italian-American baked clam.

33:39Okay, delicious. And then I would love oysters. I love oysters. Do you? I love oysters. I think oysters divide the world. You don't like oysters? Jessie's now started to turn. I can do like two or three, and then I'm done. What do you put on your oysters? Hot sauce? I put vinegar. Yeah, I like that with the shallots and stuff. and um horseradish oh oh yeah nice and then i would do like you know the seafood chaps the shrimp and the with the cocktail sauce and be like that okay then i would do my second course yeah okay yeah secondy i'll do a secondy yeah and instead of being being a pasta i'll do a soba.

34:28I'll do a soba soup. I love soba noodles. Me too. I do like a duck soba soup. I'll do that. Is that a broth? There was a place in New York called Sobia. If I'm going to New York for even one day, I'll eat there. So it's just the yummiest soba noodles, all freshly made. It's such a great restaurant. So it's the duck soba noodle soup. Delicious. now what are we doing for it's not we're not on preemie now we're on i'm gonna say honestly if it's my last i'm gonna do a really really good steak okay i'm gonna keep it simple and i probably i like my steak with an aged balsamic um like as a dip sometimes and i put your steak in balsamic vinegar sometimes yeah i've never done that like i'll do a sweet-aged I'll do a sweet-aged balsam on like a ribeye.

35:29Mmm. Fries or just mmm. I'd do spinach and I would do french fries. I love french fries. If that was my last meal. But now you don't like sweet cocktails but you've got the dessert. Do you know what your dessert's gonna be? My dessert would be oh

35:56There is a place in New York called Bar Pedy and they do a chocolate panna cotta. Their panna cotta with chocolate sauce. It's just the best. And you get shouted at by the waiters. I love it. That's like family to me. I've been going there forever. And I would say that would be my last. We've got about five minutes with you. I'm going to give you some cake to take with you, potentially. if you want to have a little bit of olive oil cake. I love olive oil cake. Okay, I'll let you have that in the car or you can have it now, whatever. Before we let you go, can you think of a nostalgic taste that can transport you back somewhere?

36:36Yeah, it's my grandma's matzo ball soup. What was so special about your... My grandma made the best matzo balls. Their fluff made it perfect. Perfect matzo ball soup. And she, like, wasn't ever shy to, like, use ingredients, like, you know, like sometimes she'd just cheat and do like a real bouillon like you know the cubes and because you know she didn't have time but her matzo balls nothing like them i do a pretty good matzo ball but i think that's that's the biggest that anything any jewish meat uh like her brisket i'm just with graham with my graham do you like because mum thinks that she makes i mean you do make fantastic matzo balls well your grandma's large balls they're kind of medium they weren't too big she didn't make the big balls i make quite yeah she made she made accessible balls yeah accessible i make quite small ones should i go big yeah always go big i think you should go big yeah but you like my soup i love it has rescued your voice your soup i boil the chicken for a for chicken legs i've started doing it differently it makes me emotional jewish food of the chicken soup when it's cooking and just yeah and like blintzes for instance like i grew up with like blueberry blintzes and i love them so much i just with my daughter got something the other day and i i got so emotional you realize like no matter what how religious you are we're not a religious family it's not like we didn't go to temple i mean like what we did when my grandma was alive but after that like we didn't really carry the religious part of our judaism but the traditions are so amazing and beautiful and i still make challah i still bring my girls i make challah i i we pray on the challah bread you know we do the whole thing we talk every time i do we talk about like what each ingredient like what it represents there's such beautiful traditions and my grandma gave that to us no no one else she was the only one and like thank god for that you know so it really that like sitting around a table at on a jewish holiday and the food that it represents just it just makes me happy you've never told me what all the ingredients of a color in my life.

39:10You haven't? They're so easy. They're really easy. Are you a four strand plat or a three strand plat? I'm a four. Yeah. That is some. But it's easy because I have a diagram. You just have a diagram and then I have the whole thing and you know. I've never made the dough though. Maybe I should try and make it. I've made little ones. They're so cute. Oh the baby calibrates. Yeah. And they're so easy. You have to do it but i don't have a good recipe for challah i'll send you mine will you yeah we'll get your number and i'll send you mine it's it's it's really good and then you can you know put your stuff on it sweet or put yeah make it more savory um mom do you want to ask kate what karaoke song if it was a neil diamond one which neil diamond song would be great for karaoke and would you singer.

40:00I mean, Sweet Caroline, as everybody knows, is like the karaoke song of all time. Yeah, it is. You're right. But Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon is a really great one. You'll be a woman soon. Is that? Yeah, it's a Pulp Fiction as well. Oh, yeah. It's from Pulp Fiction. And that's a good karaoke one. Another good karaoke one would be I'm a believer that's a good one yeah how's that one go I'm a believer that's him too yes oh I didn't know I know the last kids sang that I'd have to say in the film they really really pushed Zulemon it was Zulemon that was Mike that's Mike's jam that was Mike as a real person I loved it when the Pearl Jam guy the Pearl Jam guy sang with you I like that you say Pearl Jam guy that's like Mike and Claire that's So it's a true story.

40:58Yeah. And they actually opened for Pearl Jam then. Yes. Everything in that movie happened. Even the two acts. Yes. You dip, dip, dip, dip. Yes. Okay. Saying nothing. Hugh, Jacquemont. Hugh always says, the thing is like, he sits in the theater and he's always like, I just want to get, I just want to say out loud, like this all happened. Like, because it's so crazy. their story which is why we made the movie it's just wild it's just a great story, Thunder and Lightning I know, Thunder and Lightning, I loved it they called themselves Thunder and Lightning I know, so lovely I mean is that, they were so out there yeah, and they loved music, they loved music, and they loved Neil but that's all Claire wants to do, she's still is Claire still alive?

41:53did you get to meet her? oh yeah, she was on set a lot and um and and she's great she's wonderful and and full of like light filled full of joy always happy so happy to be there so happy that i mean like beyond ecstatic that we were making this movie i couldn't imagine what that must feel like for her you know to see this movie that was her great love as well oh to celebrate him on screen as well that's beautiful still Still, still. She wears her jacket. Did she really get married with this cowboy hat? Yeah. Oh, I love Claire. Oh, Claire. Kate Hudson, we have to let you go. I loved meeting you.

42:37You fed me. Yeah, well. Set you up for a good day. I love it. We got so many things in common. It's crazy. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. So I can't believe it. It's 2026. And good luck with, you know, the rollout of this film. It's a really beautiful film and you're fantastic. On New Year's Day, I think it is. On New Year's Day, here. Tomorrow, yeah. Coming out tomorrow. Yay! Go see it.

43:14Kate Hudson, new friend. It's your new best friend, Darlene. Got each other's digits. I love it when that happens. Jolene, there isn't anyone whose digits you miss, to be honest. It's nice. It's nice to make new friends. Is it, darling? She loved the food. Loved the food. I think when I said, are you going to have curry, she was like, she looked at me a bit like, oh, okay. Loved it, didn't she? It's a crab pleaser. It wasn't really curry, was it? Well, it was. It was a doll. Yeah, but strong curry. Anyway. It didn't make your nose run. I actually think that you could have that in the evening, and I think you could have that with a beer.

43:52It was delicious. It was nice, wasn't it? Ed Smith is such a great chef and he's also so generous about other people's cookbooks. He just did like one recently on Alison Roman's new cookbook but I love that good eggs, it's brilliant. He's a good egg. He is a good egg. And the olive oil cake. Do you want to have a little try on it? Yeah. Let's do a little taste test. This is like my grandma used to make. Really? A very light sponge cake. Sing song, song, song Song song, blue Song song, blue is out tomorrow Go and watch it She's so wonderful in it They're such a beautiful couple in it Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson Happy New Year to everybody Hope you have a fabulous time I don't think you need to stay up till 12 I think it's overrated And I would just start the new year with 8 hours sleep That's very boring isn't it Well very happy 2020 sleep Yes, and we'll see you for more in 2026.