Hugh Jackman & Kate Hudson Answer The Web's Most Searched Questions

Hi, I'm Hugh Jackman. And I'm Kate Hudson. And this is the WIRED... Autocomplete... Interview. Perfect. Oh, geez. Geez. All right. Ready? Yep. Is Hugh Jackman... Playing Neil Diamond. No, I am not playing Neil Diamond. No, you aren't. I'm playing Mike, and some people have asked me that because the movie's called Song Sung Blue, and on the poster I look a little like Neil Diamond, but I'm actually playing a guy called Mike Sardina, based on a documentary about Mike and Claire, a.k.a. Lightning and Thunder, and they formed a Neil Diamond tribute band. And so Neil was very important to Mike in his story, and so when they came together, Claire, the character Kate plays, was a Patsy Cline impersonator, and the two of them came together, and they became the bomb in Milwaukee in the mid-'90s. And it's really their story. So, no, but you get a half point if you guess Neil Diamond. Okay. How... I'm like... How Hugh Jackman... Got in shape for Wolverine. Ooh. Oh, I know. I mean, we talked about it a little bit. It's intense. You know, I've now got it down. I've been doing it for 25 years. The first film, I was not in shape, and if you look at that film, when I first get off, I'm on like a table, and I get up, and I'm in the mansion, and I've got no shirt. If you notice, I'm shot very much where all you can see is my shoulder, because I was not in the greatest shape when I got cast. And the scene that is the opening scene in the bar, they move that to the back end. So in those four or five months, I've never worked out so hard in my life. I didn't have a trainer. I just went down to the gym, and I saw this guy training, and I just asked him, and he was just a bodybuilder, basically, and I just paid him. And I got a bunch of injuries from it. Oh, no. Yeah. So I've learned a lot since then. I now know it takes six months. It takes six months? I've got a minimum of six months. And you eat like very specific… Like 6,000 calories a day. But the adage is true. Bodybuilders will say it's 70% diet, 30% training, and that's true. I think for women, it's more like 90% diet, 10%. Okay. Ready? Here we go. Does Hugh Jackman… He does. Regularly. …like bread? I love bread. Oh, my God. I actually bake bread. I can bake sourdough. That's what got me through COVID, a lot of sourdough. You love bread? Yeah, but there was a period there in the Wolverine years where I couldn't have any carbs. It's so funny. Now I've realized for my body type, carbs are good. You need them. I need them. You need that energy. And I used to be so low in energy all the time playing Wolverine because I was having no carbs. I can't imagine you low energy. Well, my version. Yeah, but your version. I wish I had a question like that. I love bread. What a funny thing to Google. Okay. Does Hugh Jackman… Yes. …ride motorcycles? I can ride motorcycles. But do you ride motorcycles? I don't do it much anymore. I have a scooter, which I like to get around town, and I have not been on it probably for four or five years. Oh, really? And I would absolutely go on a long motorbike ride, but I'm actually really good at math, and I understand the math of motorcycles. I know. That's a bummer. And I add 57… Yeah. …to the math of motorcycles. I'm like, I have a rule. We're all going to die, but I just don't want people angry. Right. That's not how you want to go down. I don't want my kids being angry. I don't want them to be sad. And not like, are you kidding me? He had to get on the Harley with his mates. Yeah. No, I… That's how he went? Can't be cruel. I hear you. I have that with dirt bike. Like, I grew up Colorado dirt bike. Oh, right. Yeah, and… But you don't with horses. You ride. You still ride, right? Oh, I still ride. Yeah. I love getting on them. I think the math of horses is not great. That's just as bad. I know. I'm so funny. I was just… Really? I hate thinking about it. Yeah. I know. The problem is when it's in your head. Sorry. No, no. Well, it depends on how you ride. It depends on if you're riding, like, jumping and all that, and, like, if you're cutting and you're doing crazy stuff. I just travel a lot. Cutting is the best. Cutting is fun. Oh, yeah. Will Cade Hudson… Uh-oh. …do a new album? Yes. Yes? I'm definitely going to do a new album. Absolutely. I won't stop now. Well, yeah. I'm in the process of writing right now. Are you writing now? Mm-hmm. Which is the best? The writing or recording? I love both, but writing… I love to write. I love getting weird in writing. And, like, I can't wait to just have a week to, like, do nothing but write. Does Cade Hudson sing in Song Sung Blue? I do. Everything. We sing together, and it's super fun. And we record it live, and we also record it in the studio. So it's sort of like a mix. And singing with him is like a dream. One more. Oh, two more. Cade Hudson. Oh, hey. Cade Hudson and Hugh Jackman. What up? It's… It's not a question. I like that one. Yeah. That means they just want to see pics. We're the best. She's the best. Okay, and Cade Hudson, Guilty Pleasure. Ooh. Oh, that's a good one. Like, in what way? My guilty pleasures are 80s hairband music and French fries. I love French fries. I love to drink, but I'm, like, you know, good about it. That's probably it. Okay. Yeah. Right. That's good. I don't want to say all these things that are inappropriate. I know. There's all… We could go there, too, but we won't. Okay. Can Hugh Jackman… Ooh. …fly a plane? No. I'm not one of those actors. My dad is. Kurt's a pilot. Is he? Yeah. Grew up riding in his biplane, doing all kinds of tricks. Really? Oh, yeah. Can Hugh Jackman play an instrument? Yeah, I can play a little bit of piano. There you go. And you're playing the guitar now. And now guitar. I learned guitar for this movie. Yes, guitars in my house, and a little bit of violin. There you go. Can Hugh Jackman ride a horse? I can. Do you love it? I learned for Australia. We rode every day for a year. Did you love it? Love. Isn't it the best? But I was scared at first, and it took me… I would say it took me six months to get over the fear. Yeah. It's just a… Yeah. Look, horses are… Look, they're intense. You know, you have to, like, get in the rhythm of… Yeah. …whatever horse you're riding, and they all have different personalities. And they can tell… When you're scared. I feel scared. I know. It's like someone saying, just don't be scared getting up there. I'm like, ah. I know. You're hosting the Oscars. Just don't be nervous. I'm like, ah. Oh, that's right. What's Kate Hudson's… Oh, God. …new movie? Oh. Oh, it's very Googled. We're getting straight to the point. Yes. Our new movie is Song Sung Blue. That's right. Written and directed… I thought maybe you had another movie. I was going to find out. Wait a minute. Written and directed by Craig Brewer. Yeah. And it's about a couple who were in a Neil Diamond band, and it's sort of a personally really interpretation of Neil Diamond band. Mid-90s in Milwaukee. And it follows their life and their love and their family and all the things that happened to them throughout their time together. And it's a beautiful movie. It is. And it's true. And I'm saying that because you're going to watch a movie and go, really? Was that true? Yes is the answer. All right. What song did Kate Hudson… Sing in something? Wrote for her mom. What song did Kate Hudson… I guess it's right for her mom. It's called Right on Time. And I wrote a song for my mom. I was writing my album, and I sat down at the piano. Linda Peery was taking a call, and she's like, yeah, keep working on whatever you're working on there, and I'll come back. And then by the time she came back, I had written a song, and it just felt like my mom, the music. And I started hearing a couple of words, and then it just sort of came out, and I wrote this song about her. It's really about following your path without even knowing that it's to stardom or to where… It's like where you're supposed to be going. She was just on this path, whether she liked it or not. And that's what… Right on time, is it? Right on time. It's an homage to my mom. Right on time. Okay. What is Kate Hudson's favorite movie? Oh. What's Kate Hudson's favorite movie? That's such a hard… That's like asking what your favorite song is. But I have different ones, so if someone was going to be like, what was the movie that you remember so much as a child? And it was Top Gun, because it was the first time I just fell in love with boys. I was like, oh my God, they're all hot. I was like, who's Iceman? Who's Hollywood? Who's… Perfect. I mean, I just loved them all. It was problematic. Boy shirts. It's perfect. It was troublesome for the family, but it all worked out. It all worked out fine. The other one I would say, one of my favorite movies as a little girl was Bye Bye Birdie. And Ann-Margaret was always like… Yeah. Always wanted to be Ann-Margaret vibes. Then I would say Eternal Sunshine is one of my favorites. And Three Amigos. Three Amigos. That's such a great mix. I could keep going. Natural Born Killers. I was just thinking about that. It's like the quintessential 90s movie. It is. It was like right when I was at the point where I could watch things like that. And it was so badass. And I was like, oh, that… I want to make movies. Not just be in them or perform. That makes me want to make movies. What is Kate Hudson's… Oh, God. …favorite song? Oh, no. Jesus. What's her favorite song? Yeah, but what do you wish for? It's so hard because there's so many songs. Why don't we go holiday song? Because this is the holidays. Let's start with that. I love that. My favorite holiday song, well, I just recorded one. That's the band. Oh. Yeah, Christmas Must Be Tonight. Christmas Must Be Tonight. And Robbie Robertson's family asked me to re-record it, which was really like a huge honor for me. That's awesome. And we recorded it and it's out. Do you see what you did there? That was great. Do you see what you did there? But it's really cool because I'm such a huge fan of the band. And it's a very, very much like very, very the band. But I would say Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas might be my favorite. But my favorite song of all time is Impossible to… I'm a big Radiohead fan. I feel like I always, no matter what, like I can go through time and I hear a lot of music and then I always find myself back listening and getting kind of lost in Radiohead. And they're actually performing right now. And I'm so excited because I've never seen them live. So I would say that if I had to pick one, it would be that. Good answer. Toss it. Do you want to keep that? Okay, that's all the boards. That's all the boards. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us on Wired. Auto. Complete. Interview. Only took me 20 minutes to learn that. Oh my God.