-Our first guest tonight is a Golden Globe-winning
and Academy Award-nominated actress you know best from
"Almost Famous" and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."
She stars in the second season of the Apple TV+ series
"Truth Be Told," with new episodes streaming on Fridays.
Let's take a look.
-You're the closest thing I've ever had to a mother, so...
-Sweetie.
I miss him so much.
-Me too.
-I really don't like when people lie to me.
-Please welcome back to the show and the studio
Kate Hudson, everybody.
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Hi.
Nice to see you. -Hi!
Good to see you. I can't believe this.
-Right? It's nice. It's real human beings.
-It's like -- This is my first back in the studio --
-It's your first studio talk show in a while.
-Yeah. Yeah. In two years.
-You were an old pro back in the day.
Is it coming back? Is it like riding a bike?
-Back in the day, Seth.
Yeah, no audience. -Yeah.
-But I'm excited. This is great.
I'm excited. -Yeah.
-How does this feel for you?
-I'm used to it now.
I worry more, to be honest, like how it is for guests
who are used to coming out to wild applause.
Like I now would spook I think if there were human beings here.
-Oh, really?
-I'm going to be like, "Eww." -But you get that excitement.
It's a little different.
-Yeah, I think when an audience comes back,
the adrenaline will elevate. -Yeah.
I can talk to anybody anytime anywhere.
-Yeah. Well, the interesting thing about it is like --
and I want to ask because you and your brother, Ollie,
have a podcast. -Yeah, "Sibling Revelry."
-"Sibling Revelry." And you've been doing it for a while.
And so much of the conversations we hear now, especially
conversations we hear between celebrities, are podcast form.
So you are hearing more intimate conversations
with people than we ever did before.
So audiences are less -- People don't notice when they're gone.
-It's true.
I also think that actually doing a podcast
has helped me in doing things like this.
Do you know what I mean? When you're on the other side of it,
I just can't believe how hard it was to get into
the rhythm of being the interviewer,
like what the actual balance is.
And then I do all the editing and Oliver just like --
I was going to say [bleep] off.
We'll bleep that. [ Laughs ]
-I like that you're like, "I'm so good at it now.
I never say things like [bleep] off.
Just go back." [ Laughter ]
-Okay, cut, cut, no.
But Oliver just, like, leaves and I have to edit everything.
So in the beginning, the editing process was insane
'cause we were so, you know --
-Was it cross-talk? Was that the biggest issue?
-Oh, cross-talk. Just long-winded.
-Yeah. -You know, we're not --
We're not -- I'm used to answering the questions.
So I would go on and on for like five minutes about something.
I'd be like, "Just cut all of this."
-Did you ever do them in person?
Or were they always -- even before the pandemic.
-In person, we did. And I miss doing them in person.
-Yeah. -And we would go for hours.
It would be like 3 1/2 hours. We'd have so much fun.
And then one time we decided to bring wine into the equation.
And that was the last time we did that.
I was like, "This is a terrible idea."
-And it's a pretty cool podcast idea.
They should know that you guys talk to other siblings.
You talk to people about siblings.
-We got to get you and your sibling on.
-We'd do it in a heartbeat.
-Yeah, because it's really fun.
And you realize it's a relationship
that people don't really talk about a lot,
even though everyone loves their siblings.
But it's probably the most important relationship
that we have. -Yeah.
-Nobody knows you like your sibling, good or bad.
It's the most complicated relationship
and even more than probably your parents.
You know, there's nobody who understands the way
you were raised like your sibling does.
-I agree.
-And if it's a good relationship,
it's just the most beautiful thing you can have in your life.
And if it's a challenging relationship,
I think what I've learned is that people long for it.
They long to have that sibling connection.
-So I want to ask, too, because you have kids.
And having an important relationship
with a sibling like you do, I have the same.
Like now, I'm so desperate for them to have it.
And I realize -- My sons get along really well.
But there's also a thing as a parent,
you can't be in charge of how they get along.
They're either going to like each other or not.
-You just get really dark when they're fighting.
"One day I'll be dead!" -[ Laughs ]
-"And you'll only have each other!"
-"You'll only have each other!"
I want to ask real quick about -- I heard your oldest --
Bing is 10. -Bing is 10.
-And I'm always fascinated what kids are into.
Bing is into something that I don't think I've heard yet.
-Oh, yeah. -For a 10-year-old.
-Yeah, he actually loves playing the stock market.
-Okay. -[ Laughs ]
Which I don't know how this happened.
-Is it like Fisher-Price stock market or the real one?
-Oh, no, no, no, the real stock market.
Like, he wants stocks for his birthday.
It was a thing. -Wow.
-Yeah. And he follows them.
He wakes up. He looks on his apps and follows his stocks.
And he makes good money.
-Oh, he's using -- This has happened?
[ Laughter ] You've got him --
You bought him stocks? -Yes, he loves his stocks.
And Foot Locker is his favorite
because it really does well apparently.
I don't really follow Foot Locker, but Bing tells me.
-Okay. -You know.
And then there was one day where it kind of dipped
and he was a little worried.
[ Laughter ]
-Well, that's a thing with kids.
You got to teach them, like, there's going to be dips.
[ Laughter ]
The market's going to have dips.
-It's wild, honey.
But it's really interesting because
he's got a great math brain,
which I just can't relate to, really, in any way.
-Same, yeah. -I just didn't --
But he's, like, this creative with a math brain,
which I'm sure there's a lot of those out there.
I don't know many of them but my son.
And so he'll go in and he'll create and draw and drum.
And then he checks his stocks.
It's sort of like, what?
-He's a real renaissance man. Yeah.
-I can't wait to see what Bing Bellamy is going to do
when he gets older, but I'm encouraging it.
I wrote on my Instagram, I was like he'll be handling
my portfolio in like two years.
-So, another son, Ryder.
-Ryder. He's almost 18.
-Okay, so he's giving you a hard time about --
-Everything. -And it seems like --
We edited some stuff together here because he gives you
a hard time about your sort of
embracing of the wellness culture.
-Oh, yeah. Well, and just the fact
that I Instagram all of my products.
-Yeah. -Yeah. So he sort of makes fun.
-I guess if you had a mom who's gonna Instagram her products,
you're making it pretty easy for an 18-year-old.
Let's just look at what Ryder did.
-Oh, God. -Hi, guys.
Kate Hudson here.
I know you know me because you follow me.
[ Chuckles ] I'm so funny.
Today, we're going to be making goji berry
in bloom protein shake.
It's delicious. I give it to my kids.
They love it. My whole family loves it.
[ Laughter ] -There's my little comedian.
-Fairly accurate? Is it fairly accurate?
-Yeah. It's fairly accurate.
I mean, he's also deeply funny.
Like, Ryder -- I mean, he clearly is going to probably
follow in the footsteps of --
I would say he's probably the funniest in our family.
So this is like every day for me.
Nobody makes me laugh like Ryder.
And he just constantly makes fun of me.
-I also want to talk about the show real quick.
-Oh, yeah. -This is really cool.
This is season two, Octavia Spencer,
star of it and also the executive producer.
And so she actually --
Did she reach out to you, for bringing you onboard?
-She did. Also, Reese is a producer on it,
Witherspoon, with Hello Sunshine,
so they both did.
And it was kind of -- It was wild because I get this call.
First, it was actually Reese,
and she's like, "What are you doing?"
And I was like, "What do you mean?
It's a pandemic. I'm home. I'm literally in my house."
And she's like, "Do you want to come do this show
in about 3 1/2 weeks?"
And in my mind, I was, like, in -- It was, like,
in the middle of everything that was happening.
Kind of freaked me out a little bit.
But then I was like, "I'm not really doing anything."
And I felt like Apple's going to have all of our backs.
If Octavia is doing it, I would die to work with Octavia.
And then I spoke with Octavia.
I mean, I just fell madly in love with her.
She's the greatest, and we had a blast.
We had a real blast, had a very close-knit family
because nobody could do anything
but be with each other, you know?
And it was great.
-Well, that's really cool. Congrats on the show.
And it's just so lovely to see you in person.
-I know. -Thank you for making us
your first show back in a studio.
-Oh, I'm so happy to be here.
-The second season of "Truth Be Told" is available on Apple TV+.