Tanya Mosley

Did you always know that your musical side came from him then?

Were you aware of that as a child loving music that, hey, this might be from my dad's side?

Yeah, definitely.

Because they were just listening to music, and you were, like, really into music.

You were dissecting it.

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We're talking about her life, her family, and her most recent film, Song Sung Blue.

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Kate, your breakout role for which you earned your first Oscar nomination and Golden Globe win was as Penny Lane in Almost Famous.

And I actually want to play a scene from near the beginning of the film.

So the young teen journalist, William, played by Patrick Fugate, is at the back door of a concert, and the guard is not letting him in.

And a few young women, including your character, Penny Lane,

come back to the back door and start talking to William.

That was my guest today, Kate Hudson in Almost Famous.

That is one of the most famous scenes because, of course, you really lay out who they are and what you do and what you don't do.

I mean, you've said that you didn't have to reach very far to get to Penny Lane, which makes sense, learning about you, even in this conversation.

But what's a memory that you come back to the most in the filming of that iconic movie?

Oh, there's a million memories.