Kate Hudson reveals why she denied working in a Kurt Russell film

Kate Hudson has opened up about turning down the role in a Kurt Russell film.

During a live Awards Chatter podcast panel at the inaugural Newport Beach TV Fest, the 46-year-old American actress and singer said she knew she wanted to be an actress from a young age, emphasising that it was because she spent time on her stepdad Russell’s movie sets.

At the event which was organised at the Lido Theatre in Newport Beach, California, Hudson quipped, “My dad’s sets were the fun sets. It was like Big Trouble in Little China and we had slides that would go down into rubber fish, and these amazing costumes.”

She added, “And the thing is, when you grow up on a movie set, it’s not that fun. [There] is a lot of waiting around, so you realize you really love it when you don’t want to get off the movie set.”

The Running Point star went on to share that if she wanted to be on her parents’ movie sets, she had to work on the film and she often worked as a “runner” for the wardrobe and the makeup teams.

Hudon mentioned that she started going to auditions when she was 11 and even got a part but her mother, Goldie Hawn, did not let her take it but now she wants her daughter to have a “normal life.”

However, at the age of 16, the Almost Famous alum began auditioning again after Russell wanted to give her a role of a young girl in his 1996 film Escape from L.A.

She recalled, “I went in and auditioned and got that part, and I sort of realized, ‘Oh, this is when you start to make choices that will define your career.’ And, ‘Do I want to be defined by being Kurt’s daughter who got this part? No.’”

“[It doesn’t] matter if I got it because I was good enough — it would never be what people would ever think. And I knew that and was like, ‘No, I can’t.’ So I ended up saying no to that, too,” Hudson shared.