Oliver Hudson Wants to See 'Pioneer' Mom Goldie Hawn Back on the Big Screen: 'She's a F---ing Icon'

Mar. 15, 2025

Oliver Hudson and Goldie Hawn in 2024.Photo:Stefanie Keenan/Getty

Stefanie Keenan/Getty

Oliver Hudsonis paying tribute to his “pioneer” momGoldie Hawnafter her appearance at the 2025 Oscars.

Hudson, 48, took the mic solo on the latest episode ofSibling Revelry, the podcast he hosts with sisterKate Hudson, to reflect on their mother’s trailblazing career. The actor said it was “amazing” and “emotional” to watch Hawn, 79, present the award forBest Animated FilmalongsideAndrew Garfieldat the Academy Awards last Sunday, March 2.

“Number one, yes, she’s my mother and she will always be my mother,” he said. “I don’t look at her as anything else.”

But aside from being his beloved mom, Hudson noted that Hawn was and still is “a force” in Hollywood.

Andrew Garfield and Goldie Hawn at the 2025 Oscars.Kevin Winter/Getty

Kevin Winter/Getty

“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 explained. “She’s a f—— icon that way, and so it was emotional for me to watch her on stage looking incredible.”

Hudson also admitted that seeing his mom at the Oscars made him “sad in a way.”

“I want to see her on screen. This is where she thrives,” he said. “This is what where she belongs.”

While Hawn has appeared opposite husbandKurt Russellin Netflix’sThe Christmas Chronicles(2018) and its 2020 sequel, her last major film role was in 2017’sSnatched,opposite Amy Schumer. Hudson noted that in recent years his mom has chosen to focus her energy on her non-profit, theHawn Foundation, and has “done amazing stuff.” But he’s still eager to see her back on the big screen.

“There’s nobody like her. I don’t think anyone ever will come along like her,” he said. “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.”

Goldie Hawn in ‘The Sugarland Express’ in 1974.FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty

FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty

TheAnd Just Like That…actor said that he and his family recently got together to watch Hawn in directorSteven Spielberg’sThe Sugarland Expressto mark its 50th anniversary. In the 1974 crime drama, Hawn plays a Texas woman who, along with her escaped convict husband (William Atherton), takes a police officer hostage in an effort to prevent their young son from being placed in foster care.

“It was just amazing to watch this woman go to work. Just crazy,” Hudson said of the film. “I just wanna see her work because she’s just so good. She’s just so awesome.”

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source: people.com