Oliver Hudson on mom Goldie Hawn
Oliver Hudson solely needs what’s greatest for mom and Hollywood diva Goldie Hawn.
The actor expressed what he felt after watching Goldie Hawn shine on the 2025 Oscars.
The Guidelines of Engagement star, 48, took a second on the most recent episode of his Sibling Revelry podcast to replicate on Hawn’s legendary profession and her current look on the Academy Awards, the place she introduced the Greatest Animated Movie award alongside Andrew Garfield on March 2.
“Number one, yes, she’s my mother and she will always be my mother,” Hudson mentioned. “I don’t look at her as anything else.”
However whereas she’s all the time mother to him, he additionally acknowledges that she’s way more than that to the world.
“She was a pioneer, let’s say, fighting for her creativity, fighting for her ideas, not taking s—, and paving the way for a lot of young women to become what they’ve become,” he defined.
“She’s a f—— icon that way, and so it was emotional for me to watch her on stage looking incredible.”
Whereas seeing Hawn, 79, again within the highlight was a proud second for Hudson, it additionally left him feeling a bit wistful.
“I want to see her on screen. This is where she thrives,” he admitted. “This is where she belongs.”
Although Hawn has made occasional appearances—most notably alongside longtime companion Kurt Russell in The Christmas Chronicles movies—her final main position was within the 2017 comedy Snatched with Amy Schumer.
In recent times, she’s targeted her vitality on her nonprofit, The Hawn Basis, which Hudson acknowledged has “done amazing stuff.” Nonetheless, he can’t assist however want for her big-screen comeback.
“There’s nobody like her. I don’t think anyone ever will come along like her,” he mentioned.
“I go back and watch some of her old movies and it’s incredible how amazing she is. Not just how funny, but what an incredible actor she is. You know, what she brings to these characters and these roles, which is something you can’t really define. You can’t practice it. You can’t try to do it. It’s just innate.”
To have a good time the fiftieth anniversary of Hawn’s 1974 movie The Sugarland Specific, directed by Steven Spielberg, Hudson and his household just lately sat down to observe it collectively.
“It was just amazing to watch this woman go to work. Just crazy,” he shared. “I just wanna see her work because she’s just so good. She’s just so awesome.”
Clearly, Hudson isn’t alone in his admiration—followers all over the place would like to see Hawn return to the massive display screen.
However whether or not she’s presenting on the Oscars, working her basis, or (hopefully) stepping again into a movie position, one factor is definite: Goldie Hawn’s magic is timeless.