“I used to be bummed out,” Hudson recalled of shedding out on the position following a “hardcore” audition course of.
Kate Hudson has discovered to say come what could in terms of touchdown musical roles.
The “Glass Onion” star recalled shedding out on the lead position of Satine in Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 musical epic “Moulin Rouge!.” Hudson, then 22, landed an Oscar nomination for “Nearly Well-known” the yr prior, however in the end the half went to 34-year-old Nicole Kidman.
“I actually wished that half and it was written on the time for a 19-year-old woman, I consider,” Hudson stated throughout”The World’s First Podcast” (through The Hollywood Reporter). “Then what occurred was I used to be form of within the auditioning course of after which Nicole [Kidman] had a relationship with Baz and wished to do it. And so in fact, it was like, ‘I assume Nicole Kidman’s doing it.’”
Hudson recalled the “hardcore” audition course of that led her to fall “so in love” with visionary writer-director Luhrmann.
“He’s so fantastic. And energetically, I simply felt very linked to the way in which he does issues,” Hudson stated. “So I used to be bummed out. In fact, completely obtained it, as a result of it’s Nicole. It couldn’t be extra completely different…I actually wished that half.”
The “The way to Lose a Man in 10 Days” star added, “I attempt not to think about issues like that. You understand how that factor like, ‘Oh, one resolution may change the trajectory of your life?’ I don’t ever wish to consider that method.”
“Moulin Rouge!” went on to earn eight Oscar nominations, together with a Greatest Actress nod for Kidman. The movie gained two Academy Awards for Greatest Costume Design and Greatest Artwork Course.
Luhrmann beforehand instructed IndieWire that it was robust to even get “Moulin Rouge!” financed earlier than casting.
“What I believe the large actuality is, once I began out with ‘Moulin Rouge!,’ I should have heard, ‘The musical can by no means work once more’ so many instances. And even when ‘Moulin Rouge!’ got here out, we needed to combat tooth and nail simply to verify it wasn’t clubbed to dying like a child seal,” the “Elvis” auteur stated. “There’s now not a query in anybody’s thoughts about ‘ought to they trouble to do a musical?’ Most financiers and studios are going like, ‘The place’s my musical? Yeah, yeah, science fiction’s superb, however I really want a musical.’”
In fact, Hudson isn’t the one blonde bombshell to overlook out on being in a famed musical manufacturing. Amanda Seyfried recalled how “devastating” it was to not land Glinda the Good Witch in upcoming two-part movie “Depraved.”