SHINE LIKE A DIAMOND
Hugh Jackman on bonding with Kate Hudson over Neil Diamond – and doing karaoke with the man himself
Hugh Jackman has been singing throughout his entire adult life, so he arguably wasn’t prepared to meet his match in Kate Hudson, whose musical talents had been a secret before the release of her debut album, Glorious, in 2024.
Together, they perform duets in the film Song Sung Blue, based on the true story of two down-on-their-luck musicians who form a Neil Diamond tribute band, proving that it’s never too late to find love and follow your dreams.
“We’d already bonded, but there was one day when they put a mic in front of us and recorded us. That’s when I got the chills; that’s when I knew that, musically, we would blend,” Hugh says of his co-star, recalling how they transformed Neil’s lesser-known 1969 song Holly Holy into an emotional powerhouse of a performance.