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Kate Hudson reminded her fans that she once had a small role in the Christmas classic Home Alone 2, starring Macaulay Culkin, this week, and she’s still getting paid for it.
While appearing in it party between brothers On Monday’s podcast, the 44-year-old actress shared with her brother and co-host Oliver Hudson that she still receives tiny checks for the movie that are worth only fractions of a dollar.
She was reminiscing about the early days of her career with former child actor Joey Lawrence, 47, who was accompanied by his brothers Matthew and Andy.
Kate, who recently launched her music career amid a slowdown in her acting work, was inspired to share her own story after Joey recalled being put to the test as a five-year-old when he had to memorize a long speech for an audition. commercial.
He pulled it off perfectly and landed a Cracker Jack commercial, which led to 50 more commercials airing across the United States in just one year.
Kate Hudson, 44, revealed Monday on her Sibling Revelry podcast that she still receives 10-cent residual checks for one of her first childhood movie roles; seen in February 2023
Kate told her co-host, her brother Oliver Hudson, and guests Joey, Matthew and Andy Lawrence that she had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in Home Alone 2 (1992).
The story inspired Kate to ask Joey if he still receives royalties from any of his early commercials.
He then shared that he is still making money from one of his first roles, although it would probably take him several years to be able to pay for a single chocolate bar with checks.
“I still have remnants of Home Alone 2 because I sang in the choir,” he shared via People.
“I’m in that choir and then I get 10 cents every once in a while,” she added, referring to a musical scene in the film in which it’s hard to pick her out from a crowd of other kids and teens.
Joey admitted that he receives even less for his early work, leading him to wonder if the studio was wasting money by just sending him the check.
“Sometimes I get like two cents and I’m like, ‘Wait. Don’t the envelope and paper cost more?” she joked.
Kate saw the bright side and responded, “At least they’re being fair and honest.”
His role was so small that he is not credited in the film, while his first credited role is a 1996 appearance in Party Of Five, according to IMDb.
Her first major film role was in 1998’s Desert Blue (co-starring a young Casey Affleck), but she didn’t become a star until 2000’s Almost Famous.
She played an enigmatic groupie following a rock band destined to miss the big time, and her face featured prominently on the film’s poster and advertising.
The news that Kate had a role in Home Alone 2, which you’ll miss in a blink of an eye, was not news to Kate’s brother Oliver, who was intimately aware of her career, although the brothers Lawrence said they would be on Find Her when they watch the Christmas comedy again.
Although Kate has had a more notable acting career with several popular films under her belt, her brother has also had a successful acting career for decades.
Despite being older, her first major roles came in the late 1990s, after she had already begun appearing in films and television shows.
Kate said she appeared in a chorus in Macaulay Culkin’s Christmas comedy; Frame from Home Alone 2
“I’m in that choir and then I get 10 cents every now and then,” he said; Pictured with her family, including his stepfather Kurt Russell and his mother Goldie Hawn.
Her breakout role wasn’t until 2000’s Almost Famous (pictured), which helped make her a star.
In January, Kate released her debut single after announcing she would be putting her acting career on hold to focus on her other passion, music.
He is best known for being part of the main cast of the CBS sitcom Rules Of Engagement, which aired from 2007 to 2013, and also appeared on several seasons of Nashville.
Most recently, she had a prominent role in the first two seasons of the Fox crime series The Cleaning Lady.
Her sister Kate recently shared that she is taking a step back from her acting career to focus on another passion: music.
Late last month, she released her debut single Talk About Love, which she co-wrote with Linda Perry and her fiancé, Danny Fujikawa.