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Kate Hudson co-stars with Naomi Watts in Le Divorce. Here she tells iVillage about the film, her fear of heights, and working with Merchant and Ivory.
How did you find going to Paris and shooting Le Divorce?
For me, my experience of Paris was probably the most exciting I've had so far in my life. I felt as if I was in the centre of everything. Except for a few sexual escapades I had, I was experiencing Paris in parallel with my character. I was enjoying and being as wide-eyed and full of wonder in real life as I was doing in the film. Paris was incredible. Everything about it - from spending hours eating, drinking and talking, to walking through the streets.
When was your first visit to Paris?
I don't remember my first time in Paris. My mother was quite a single mum, and everywhere she went, she just packed up her two kids and took them wherever she was going. So I was travelling with her all the time. I do remember being a little girl, but my only memory of being that age - I must have been five years old - was looking at all these clothes and fabrics. She bought this big blue dress. I just remembered that!
Was your mother [Goldie Hawn] living in France at the time?
My mother was dating this Frenchman. I was two years old, and we were living in Ibiza. I remember the way he was with his daughter, and it was so beautiful. It was cultural. The way he'd brush her hair, the way he'd speak to her in French. It was quite beautiful. He'd take us to fig trees in Ibiza. I was very little. I never experienced details like that in America.
So it was very different to the US, then?
Yeah, people are running around naked, not afraid to show their bodies. I think America is very different. I remember running around in Ibiza as a little girl, not being fazed by all these naked people, or people smoking and drinking. Nobody stopped to think about the fact that there was a child in the room, when they were having a cigarette. It was just the way it was. To me, that's the way it should be. People should do what they do. If you don't like it, you don't have to be there. It's a very different attitude in Europe to the States.
Apart from Paris, what was the chief attraction of making the film?
Really, the reason I came to do this film was to work with James [Ivory, director] and Ismail [Merchant, producer], and be a part of their body of work. To be able to say that I could be a little sliver in their world.
Apparently, you were scared of going up the Eiffel Tower to shoot the film's finale?
Yeah. I took a little thing for vertigo, an anti-anxiety drug. My knees buckled, my head started spinning. It's funny, because I'm not afraid of heights - I rock-climb! It was about being in a very small space. It was very bizarre. I went into a cold sweat. It was the first time I realised what vertigo was like. It was scary.
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Created: 19/09/2003 Updated: 03/09/2004
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