Kate Hudson

Everything else became about honoring her story and really trying to, you know, portray that as successfully as I could and respectfully.

I chose not to research her personally, right?

So I have met Claire, and I've spent time with Claire, and she's amazing, and I love her, and it was great.

So when we started filming, I did spend some time with her.

But in the beginning, it was important for me and for Craig that, you know, Craig's story— Craig Brewer, the director.

Craig Brewer, the director.

We're making this film that is an adaptation of the documentary—

And he took eight years of their life, consolidated into two.

And my job as an actor is to give Craig the movie he wants.

His relationship to Claire and the family is the intimate one.

And for me, I think it would distract me from being able to give Craig what he needed.

You know, I didn't want to challenge him because I had spent so much time with Claire.

I want to trust my director and what his vision is for his version of their life story.

And then Claire sort of came to set, and then we got to meet each other and hang out, and I'd already done all of the work, you know.

And getting to know Claire after that became the validation that we were— That you were on the right track.

I mean, I think women, when you read a lot of scripts and you read a lot of the types of characters that are written for women, very rarely do you see ones that hit all the notes.

Right?

So you can see things that are down the line.

You can see what someone just sort of said to me, which I thought was a great way of putting it.

They call it trauma porn.