By Fred Topel | Image property of Warner Bros Pictures.
Kate Hudson is best known as the fair skinned blonde America's Sweetheart, a role she recreates in Fool's Gold. This time, however, she's bronzed with tan as a divorce on an adventure in the Florida Keys.
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"We followed summer for a year," Hudson said. "It was a year of summer for us. I was really tan which is why I am pale right now. I actually came back and went right to New York, because I live half the time in New York and I was like, ‘I just want a scarf. I want to cover my body and wear cool.’ I'm like Matthew. Chris [Robinson] used to say that I’d sit and he’d watch me get tan over lunch because I could just sit there, because I’m Italian and so I have that olive. I could put on 40 sun block and we’d be loaded on the sun block just getting [tan]. It was crazy and it lasted for a whole year."
The film also turns Hudson into an action heroin on underwater diving expeditions. "We had to know our emergency procedures. Basically, the last month of shooting in the tank was all emergency procedures but they became so second nature through doing them so much, that it became easy. The only thing is, when you are underwater, you really have to be sharp. There is no laziness when you are working in water."
Hudson's skills got pretty honed. "I was doing a lot of free diving. You don't have your air. I got [up to] 45 seconds [holding my breath] which was pretty good, but I had to do that whole blow hole sequence. The thing is that they cut it and it looks like we weren’t doing it all in one, but we were doing all that stuff in one take where I had to wrap myself around the cannon and hold myself against the cannon and the air, the bubbles would come. They actually had this mechanism in the water that created the wave. That was actually the scariest moment, because I could not see. I couldn’t see anything and I was holding on, so I was a little nervous. It was definitely you had to trust that the people that were there could see you go like this. Really fun though."
Fool's Gold
Perhaps her scariest moment was coming face to face with a manatee. "I saw it and I was like [squeals]. I run through my mask plug and take my mask off. And I’m in the ocean and there is this like, I didn’t know really what it was. It was murky. It looked like a whale. And then even when I told my diving instructor Michelle, I told Michelle I turned she was like, ‘Calm down, calm down.’ She turns around, she kind of went back and was like, ‘Whoa.’ And then we went up. And I think the exact words out of my mouth were: ‘What the f*** was that?’ Then of course everybody was just so excited to see a manatee. It turned out to be docile."
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