Tanya Mosley

And Kate Hudson, welcome to Fresh Air and congratulations on your Oscar nomination.

Yes.

Well, I just had a chance to look at this Oscar nomination luncheon.

Yes.

Where all of you all are awesome.

on bleachers and it's like a class photo, it's almost like a graduation.

You mentioned the first time.

It was in 2001 when you were nominated for your role as Penny Lane in Almost Famous.

I put both of those photographs side by side when I saw this most recent photograph.

I mean, you're ravishing in this red outfit and you're smiling ear to ear.

You're also, you have that same energy from 25 years ago, but there's sort of a pensiveness there in you.

You know, you're the young kid on the block at that time.

How did it feel with that 25 year separation, being in that room and really sitting with the fact that you're there again?

Like a reunion almost.

Well, let's get into the role that you have been nominated for.

Your character, Claire Sardina, she's a real person, a hairdresser from Milwaukee who...

performs as a Patsy Cline impersonator by night.

And she and her husband, Mike, create a Neil Diamond tribute band called Lightning and Thunder.

They're everyday people with real battles.

We watch them as they recognize that within themselves and each other.