Kate Hudson has surely starred in enough romantic flicks — from “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” to “Fool’s Gold” — to be considered a “rom-com queen,” but she’s still a little iffy about the label.
“It’s a mixed feeling because now that I’m older, I love it,” Hudson said during the March 6 episode of the “Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce” podcast.
But she admitted that having “success in a rom-com as a woman” can be a double-edged sword.
“I think what happens when you have a very successful rom-com, it sort of becomes what people expect of you and want from you, and as an actor, you’re sort of like, ‘Yeah, but I want to do a million different things.’”
“As Hollywood goes, they love to put you in a box,” she added. “They love it. And so I think when you’re younger, it’s like, you don’t want to be pigeonholed into an idea that that’s what you do. And the second you have success in a rom-com as a woman, it’s like, they just want you in that.”
Hudson has been opening up about many topics recently, including the status of her sex life at age 45.
“The best part about sex in your 40s, honestly, is the freedom,” the Golden Globe winner said in a Feb. 25 interview with Bustle. “Sex isn’t supposed to be pretty, and I think that when you get older, you kind of have more fun with that.”
Watch a clip from Hudson’s interview on “Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce.”