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Kate Hudson was almost famous under different circumstances.
The actress, 46, recently revealed that as a teen, she was told to get emancipated from her parents, Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, in order to land more work in Hollywood.
“I had gotten this part that they wanted me to basically divorce my parents so that I could work as an adult,” Hudson said while on the “Awards Chatter” podcast at the Newport Beach TV Fest earlier this month.
“My mom was like, ‘No – never happening,'” she confessed. “But then I got the ‘Party of Five’ and it was so great.”
The Fox drama debuted in 1994 and followed the lives of the five Salinger siblings after their parents died in a car crash.
The series starred Matthew Fox as the eldest sibling and guardian, Charlie Salinger, Scott Wolf as Bailey Salinger, Neve Campbell as Julia Salinger, Lacey Chabert as Claudia Salinger and Jacob Smith as Owen Salinger.
Hudson guest-starred on Season 2 episode 21, titled “Spring Breaks: Part 1” in 1996.
She played Cory, a co-worker of Michael Goorjian’s character Justin Thompson. Thompson was Julia’s love interest at the beginning of the show.
“Party of Five” marked Hudson’s first role on a television series, and she recalled Goorjian, 54, being “so sweet” and “so kind” on set.
“It was like two days of shooting,” she explained, “and I missed two days of school and my mom actually allowed me to do it.”
“I was 16 and obsessed with ‘Party of Five,’ so walking onto that set was like, I couldn’t believe that I was going to have a guest role on it, a day player role,” Hudson gushed. “I was like, oh. It was so fun.”
While on the live podcast episode, the “Running Point” star also touched on why she turned down an acting job at the age of 16.
At the time, Hudson had begun seriously auditioning for roles and her stepdad, Kurt Russell, suggested she try out for the part of a young girl in his 1996 movie “Escape from L.A.”
“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,’” the singer recounted. “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,” continued Hudson, “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.”
After working on “Party of Five,” the “Glass Onion” alum, played Larraine Cahill on Season 1 episode 9 of “EZ Streets,” titled: Neither Have I Wings to Fly” in 1997.
Then, in 2000, Hudson rose to fame as Penny lane in “Almost Famous.”
Which was inevitable, as the Hollywood vet always knew she wanted to be an actress.
Hudson also recalled visiting Russell, 74, on location as a young child, which spurred her love of acting.
“My dad’s sets were the fun sets,” she elaborated. “It was like ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ and we had slides that would go down into rubber fish, and these amazing costumes.”
“And the thing is, when you grow up on a movie set, it’s not that fun,” Hudson confessed. “[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.”
Hawn, 79, first started dating Russell in 1983, and the “Bride Wars” actress shared that in order to be on set with either of her parents, she had to take a job on the film.
“Performing was always something I knew I was going to do,” Hudson noted. “There was never a question, but really falling in love with the circus was something that I don’t think all kids actually have when they’re on a set.”
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