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Out of the Bubble
RD: I think people will want to know how your parents did it.Hudson: It's giving up yourself for somebody else. Also, our parents would go away and be lovers. We knew how important their relationship was, that their relationship was the foundation of our family. So, when we would see them go away for a weekend, we knew they were in love. We hated to see them leave, but it made us also know that they were two individuals who needed to be lovers, which felt great. It inspires you to have that in your life too.
RD: Didn't your parents recently move to Vancouver so your younger brother, Wyatt, could play hockey there?
Hudson: Yes. He's a very good player. That's a perfect example of the kinds of things they do for their kids. It's not about them. It's about Wyatt following his dream.
RD: So tell us about Raising Helen.
Hudson: It's the kind of movie you want to go see, and the kind people will get something out of. It's an ode to single mothers, to what life is like when you lose people. Tragedy, love, family, struggle -- all those things. It's a real-life character you can totally relate to, and that was challenging for me.
RD: And you're getting ready to shoot another film too?
Hudson: It's a thriller called Skeleton Key. Kind of like a Sixth Sense type movie. It's one of the scariest scripts I've ever read. It really freaked me out. I'm a little nervous actually -- because it's about voodoo, and I believe in that.
RD: You do?
Hudson: I believe in everything -- in spirits, in voodoo, in manipulative energies, in positive energies.
RD: You got married pretty young. Were you planning to settle down when you met Chris?
Hudson: No. It just kind of happened. I was so young, and there was not an ounce of me that ever thought I was going to meet some man and fall in love and literally say, "I guess this is it." I was having a good time being single.
And for him, he was a rock and roller. His lifestyle was the exact opposite of what I would ever have thought I would be involved with. We met and we both said, "Wow, I guess our lives are about to change drastically." And they did.
RD: Does he sing to you and to the baby?
Hudson: Yes. But he's got one of those voices -- what he's really good at is singing out, singing loud.
RD: Not like a lullaby?
Hudson: Oh, he'll sing a few lullabies. They won't be your typical lullabies.
RD: What aspect of being a mom has surprised you most? What didn't you expect?
Hudson: I had such a great pregnancy. I was so happy the whole time. It was just heaven. I thought that the transition from being pregnant to having the baby was going to be so easy.
Here I come home with a little baby, and because I had a C-section I was in bed for about a week and a half. And every fear that I spent my short life trying to get rid of, well, they just came back like a hundredfold. All of a sudden I was scared.
Mortality came up. I could never die, Chris couldn't die, he can't leave me, nobody can touch my child. I was crying every day. It wasn't depression. I was just overwhelmed with so much love and intensity. You're never ready for it.
Then a week later that was all over. Chris said we're going to go pick up food. I stumbled to the car; I was still in a lot of pain.
I got out and looked around and went, Oh, yes, the world moves forward. Life is still happening all around. Come out of the bubble.
Then it just got better and better, every second and every day. It's like everyone says, you never think you can love anything more in your life until you have your own. I have to really keep my mind on working or I could just have babies. It's so great.
RD: So you're feeling good now?
Hudson: I'm good. I'm working out like a madwoman, two hours a day, getting ready for my next movie. The weight has actually come off quite fast. I gained 60 pounds. It was so much fun. I ate everything I wanted to eat.
RD: When you go off to shoot the movie, will you take the baby?
Hudson: Yes, the baby will be going with me everywhere I go for a while. I don't see myself leaving that perfect little new being anytime soon.
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