LOS ANGELES — Kate Hudson is plotting her dream collaboration with her mother, Goldie Hawn, saying she wants them to co-star in a vehicle modeled on the mother-daughter drama “Postcards From the Edge” and that they may need to write it themselves, according to a new profile connected to her movie “Song Sung Blue.” She says the right script has never come forward, so she now envisions a personal project that taps into their revelatory real-life bond, Nov. 22, 2025.
Discussing the concept in an interview related to her awards campaign, Hudson told Variety, “I would love to, but it has to be the right project,” adding that past scripts never seemed honest enough about their relationship. ”She said she could now imagine a story in the mode of “Postcards From the Edge” that she and Hawn would help develop.
Kate Hudson said she drew inspiration from her family. Kate Hudson: Her words come as she embraces family in all her work. In “Song Sung Blue,” a Neil Diamond-inspired drama opposite Hugh Jackman, the actor portrays one half of a tribute-band couple, set for theatrical release on Christmas. New first-look photos also see her channelling Hawn’s feathered 1980s hairstyle.
In referring to “Postcards From the Edge,” Hudson is paying homage (albeit inadvertently) to one of Hollywood’s most enduring showbiz mother-daughter tales. A recovering actor is forced to move in with her glamorous, alcoholic mother (Shirley MacLaine), who has been living in the spotlight; they untangle decades of resentment and co-dependence.
Despite having decades of hits to their names, Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn have never appeared together in a feature film. Hawn — who just celebrated an 80th birthday — took home an Oscar for “Cactus Flower” and later became the face of ’70s comedies such as “Private Benjamin.” Hudson got a best supporting actress nomination for “Almost Famous” and was a rom-com staple in the 2000s.
And for years, that absence was intentional. Hawn told one outlet in 2017 that she worried collaborating with her daughter would add “too much baggage,” and that the dynamic duo might create a storyline likely to set fans up for unattainable expectations for their real relationship or overshadow the work at hand.
Her position had begun to change in recent years. In a podcast chat last year with Kelly Ripa, Hawn said she’d love to make a movie “with the family” and suggested it’s just about finding the right writer and timing: “It’s all about a writer,” she said.
Hudson’s updated “Postcards From the Edge” wish list seems to be meeting her mom halfway: a writer-driven, emotionally ambiguous, Hollywood family-centric script that’s not exactly a mirror of those families. In envisioning a project they could co-author, Kate Hudson also suggests a level of creative control over how their story would be fictionalized.
That desire to control the narrative aligns with Hudson’s recent musical career. Earlier this year, she released “Right on Time”, a song about Hawn’s pre-fame years dancing in clubs and scraping by; she added that children are “supposed to carry on the stories of our parents,” and her mother’s journey was “amazing.”
The duo previously posed together for People’s Beautiful Issue back in 2020, where they discussed parenting styles; Hudson described herself as “so strict,” while Hawn joked that she called her “Attila the Hun” for her rules. That interview, full of warmth and teasing, was indicative of how easy the two have become at mining their real lives for material.
Hollywood already has a rich history of parent-child collaborations, from Adam Sandler acting alongside his daughters to Maya Hawke and Ethan Hawke appearing onscreen together. The third would add to that legacy an entity with Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson’s DNA, finally arriving back when both women had become powerhouses in their respective careers.
For now, the “Postcards From the Edge”-style conceit is just that — a conceit. And with “Song Sung Blue” in awards season and Kate Hudson balancing between acting, touring, and family life, we might be waiting a while. But in her new comments, she has now made it crystal clear that if the perfect screenplay lands before them, they are prepared to listen at long last.
