🎞️ EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Hugh Jackman And Kate Hudson

The extraordinary Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson join Jonesy & Amanda for a chat ahead of the release of their new film, Song Sung Blue.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Everything I love is embodied in this new film song
Sung Blue. It's got the songs of Neil Diamond. It's
a love story based on a true story. And the
best bit it's got Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in it.
What is not to Love? They join us now, Kate
and Hugh.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hello, Hello, how are you guys? Good to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Oh, this is just a gush fest from me. I
don't know if Kate will know what a k tail
record selector is? But Hugh, did you grow up with
Neil Diamond Records in your Kate and your k tail
record selector.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Aytel Records selected? No, but I remember hot August night
playing up and down the street. Oh yeah, and it
was yeah, I'm I'm that age seventy is Neil Diamond.
And I got to see Neil who said Australia to
this day is one of his favorite places to go.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
I saw this documentary some time ago. I want to
be I don't want to be one of those hipsters.
It says, Oh, this should be a movie. But when
I saw it, I said, this should be a movie.
So here we are some years later, and wow.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I saw it. It was it was out on like
I'm sure it was on Fox Tell or something like that.
It was a two thousand and eight.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
But this story in itself, and I know, Hugh, you've
been down the Peter Allen path before, and now you're
doing it like you're playing an impersonators impersonator, but Kate
for you. You were just on a TV show and
the director saw you saying I just want to sing,
and that was it.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
That's how you got cast for this.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
I think it was Hugh actually, who was watching CBS
Morning and I had just put an album out, and
so for me it was I was I was sort
of sharing with on CBS how I spent so much
time waiting for it to come to me that I
had forgotten that I probably needed to just do what
I loved and put my work, my writing out there,

(02:07):
and and that was a really scary decision. And Hugh
saw saw it and sent caled Craig and was like.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
We're going because just as soon as I saw her
first of all, it's amazing seeing and music's really in
your soul. You're really a muso, you know. I love it.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Fat. The story of Mike and Claire is just so
beautiful and extraordinary, sort of tribute performers who aim high,
but if you scratch the surface of small town America
or Australia anywhere, these are the heartwarming stories where success
isn't always about being number one, It's about love and
doing what you love.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, I agree, like Kate and I was saying today,
it's like a love letter to tip jar musicians around
the world and change musicians to artists who doesn't matter cricketers.
It's like people just who love to do it. And
Mike is really good. Michae and Claire were really good.
They did open for Pearl Jam. I mean there, but
it just didn't just because they not Pearl Jam. I mean,

(03:09):
they're not a great story successful.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
I like how he says in the movie What's a
Pearl Jam?

Speaker 4 (03:18):
It's such a great moment and all of it happened,
and people are going to watch the movie and I
just want to be somehow inside every cinema to go no, no,
that really happened. Yeah, I can hear in Australia come
on mate, come on now, that's too come on.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well it particularly Kate how your character gets hit by
a car spoiler, but it was, you know, that's that's
the point of That's what I felt, really so like,
it's such a good homage to what the documentary was.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's such a great story.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there, you know she there's so much
tragedy in this story, which I think is unexpected, but
how they get through it and what brings them through it,
and the amazing performance of Ella Anderson who plays Rachel
and sort of being this like rock throughout this story
and during that time when sort of the movie goes

(04:08):
into this different kind of direction, and how they come
out of it, you know, is just like a very unexpected,
inspiring feeling and story. And yeah, I mean it's definitely
not where you think it's going to come.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
You know, I had this, but I've come across this
great wood and I use it all the time, and
it's sonder, which means the knowledge that everyone is living
a complicated life, and we all are, and movies like
this just reminds you of the lives that everyone has
in their lives, goodbad, everything.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
I always wonder why everybody is so shocked with tragedy
because tragedy is eminent. We all experience tragedy in some way,
in somehow, at some point in our life, and we
spend so much time trying to get away from it
or fear it that we forget the joy is actually
the hardest thing to come by. And I think there's

(05:04):
this thing about this film where you see these people
going through it, but they find that the spirit of
like love and togetherness and and to power through and
the grit that they have to power through something to
get to the other side.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
And it just.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Reminds us that that is like every person's experience in
their life. Everybody has had that or moved through that
in some way.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, And the and the true joy is Hugh, you're
just rocking that Neil diamond hairdo you know that is
just extraordinary?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Every day I got to put that on. Hey, it's
not you, unfortunately not, but I'm getting extensions tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
That.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Actually, I still when I see the movie, there's that
point where he changes his head look more Neil. It
just makes me laugh every time because Mike just thinks
it's the greatest thing ever. Know that, and the leaf Blowers.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Absolutely, congratulations.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's such a great feel good movie for coming up
into Christmas time, and it's the movie I think everyone
wants to see around this time of yew. Hugh Jackman,
Kate Hudson, thank you for joining us.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Sounder please for the day.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Thank you, Kate.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Nice to meet you too, and you will see you
around ok bro.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Thanks, thank you guys so much.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
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