Kathryn Hahn recalls meeting Kate Hudson for ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’

How to make a lasting first impression with Kate Hudson: show up flustered and sweaty.

Kathryn Hahn recounted her very “flustered” first meeting with Hudson via her audition for How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days over a decade ago, revealing on Variety‘s latest Actors on Actors that she ran late for the appointment because parking was horrendous.

“Do you remember your audition as well as I remember it?” Hudson asked Hahn, who played Michelle, one of the besties of Hudson’s Andie, in the 2003 romantic comedy. “Can we talk about it because it was one of the great moments of all time. It was me and [producer] Lynda Obst, and we were looking for my besties, and you came in, like, all flustered.”

“I couldn’t find a parking spot,” Hahn explained. “I was so sweaty. I couldn’t believe I was meeting you. I ran in, in a ruckus, and you were so welcoming.”

Hudson continued, “You were everything I think anyone would ever hope and wish for even as they know you now. You came in and you were just like, ‘Oh my God. I’m so sorry. I couldn’t find the parking.’ You had this bag, I don’t even know what was in it; it was like you were traveling. You were like, ‘Okay! Okay! Okay!’ and I immediately was like, ‘I love this woman so much.’ I forget what scene we were doing.”

Hahn asked, “Was it me getting broken up with at the beginning? Or the therapist scene?” referencing her character’s unceremonious dumping at the top of the film and when she played a faux couples therapist to Andie and Matthew McConaughey’s Ben.

Hudson said, “It was one of those. But then you’re in the middle of the scene, and your Nokia flip phone was like, bdltltlt, bdltltlt. She’s like, ‘Oh my God, hold on — I’ve got to go get the phone.’ You get the phone and you’re like, ‘I’m in the middle of an audition.’ I remember looking at Lynda like, ‘This is my best girlfriend in life.'”

Given her tardiness, Hahn quipped that “it’s a miracle I get cast in anything.”

From director Donald Petrie, the rom-com starred Hudson as an advice columnist who pitches a piece on how to get a man to leave you in 10 days. Enter McConaughey’s executive, who believes that he could make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days. When the two meet, both of their plans go awry.

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Hudson and Hahn would go on to reunite onscreen nearly two decades later in the 2022 Knives Out sequel Glass Onion — “which was another one of those experiences that I’ll never forget as long as I live,” Hahn said, as the two reminisced over Hudson reading Hahn tarot cards under the full moon in celebration of her birthday.

Hahn would like to work with her former costar again, even pitching herself for a role in Hudson’s Netflix sports comedy Running Point during the Actors on Actors. “I love Isla,” Hahn said, referencing Hudson’s character. “I want to be her sister and hang out with her. You need to have a long-lost sister [on the show].”

Hudson responded, “I wish I had a sister.”

Somebody get series co-creator Mindy Kaling on the Nokia to make this happen!