Finding "Fool's Gold" with Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey

by Jordan Riefe

After starring in How yo Lose a Guy in 10 Days back in 2003, Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey knew they had a special on-screen chemistry that worked for movie-goers. Since then, both have gone their separate ways in Hollywood but now return to recapture their romantic on-screen chemistry in director Andy Tennant's Fool's Gold, about an estranged couple that discovers a lost treasure, which reawakens their sense of adventure and rekindles their lost romance.

 

McConaughey on whether his injury in the film was intentional:

"Yeah, it wasn’t supposed to happen, but that was my fault. Again, that’s just a small laceration on the skin. That’s not going down diving or having her on the back of a bike going down a muddy hill in the rain. I’ve got to be responsible for both of us. And if one of us gets injured there while I’ve got a hold of the handle bars, that’s going to stop production and suck. And Kate is going to be pissed off, and it’s going to suck. So you do your homework before. And, like I said, if it gets too hairy one time... you got a little scared. That’s when it works. You don’t have to go on there and really act when the camera is going along and we’re doing 30 miles an hour down a muddy hill. But you get past that and you go, ‘Okay, did you get that one in the can because we don’t want to push it again?'"

Hudson on whether she changes the way she approaches life because of being a parent:

"I think it’s so funny because, when you become a parent, it’s one of those things where you think that sometimes things change when in fact Chris [Robinson] and I still say that we integrate - you integrate your children into your life. And what you are is what you teach your children. And some - a lot of stunt people have kids, and they don’t quit their job. They just - they teach their children that this is what they do, and a part of what makes them happy is living their life and thrill-seek. Me, [laughs] I went the opposite. I had Ryder and I was like - I never wanted to do anything. I got terrified of everything. And then the process of being on this movie and what I was going through at that time was really getting over a lot of my phobias, because you realize that you don’t want your children to think that there are things to be fearful of. I don’t want Ryder to grow up thinking, ‘Don’t go in the water. Mom’s afraid to go in the ocean. Mom’s afraid to go in a helicopter.’ I want him to grow up going, ‘Oh, Mom scuba dives, and she skis, and she’s active, and she’s not afraid.'"

Hudson and McConaughey on the strangest place where they've been recognized by fans:

MCCONAUGHEY: I had one kid-- I was hiking through Africa, in Mali, and I was, I don’t know, a hundred miles away from the nearest town. And we were out in the middle of the bush with people that had never been in a car, people that still thought the world was flat, people that I thought had never even seen or been around electricity. And this one kid comes up and he looks at me, and he’s like, ‘Van Zan.’ And I go, ‘What?’ He goes, ‘Van Zan, you killed dragon.’ And he was talking about Reign of Fire. And I was like, ‘Yeah!’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, Van Zan.’ We high fived and sat there and went through charades and reenacted the movie for about two hours in the middle of the dirt out there. And then we laughed and went on.

HUDSON: That’s actually funny that you say Africa because I had an experience in Africa. I was just in Africa and I got this horrible, strange, bizarre-like, hive outbreak, which was very weird. And I was a little nervous about it and I was in the middle of nowhere, like near the Botswana border. And I had to go to this doctor out at a clinic, and he hardly spoke English. And I walk in and I’m in a little bit of a panic mode. I’m a little bit like, ‘You know, I didn’t really want to have something that has never happened to me before while I was out here.’ And it wasn’t like normal hives. It was very bizarre. And then I’m kind of looking at it, and he kind of looked at it and went, ‘Hmm,’ like, ‘I’ve never seen that before,’ which is not what you want to hear... And then he kind of tells me what it is, gives me something or gives me some cream to put on it and then asks to take a picture. He totally knew who I was. I was like in panic mode, and he completely recognized - he knew that I was coming in. And I was out in the middle of nowhere. That was kind of weird.

Kate Hudson on becoming a director on her 2007 film Cutlass:

"That was great. The one thing that really changed for me was I sat at -- the night, when they all premiered and something that Matthew always talked to me about, which was -- I said, 'I’ll never be late to a movie set again,' because it really makes you go -- actually, the first day I was waiting on my dad because he was having an issue with his moustache. And we’re on time constraints, and we only had ten-hour days because we had kids in it. And I’m waiting on my father. I’m just sitting there, waiting. 20 minutes go by, 30 minutes. I’m like, ‘Oh, man. I will never, ever be late to a movie set again.’ [laughs]

Matthew McConaughey on how he's looking forward to becoming a father:

"It’s going to be a great adventure. And I’ve always wanted to be a father, and I was just waiting for the right time. I’m with the right woman, and now it is. So I’m excited for the new adventure."

-- Jordan Riefe

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