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By India McCarty
Actor Oliver Hudson takes a page out of mom Goldie Hawn’s book and keeps his children away from Hollywood for the time being.
“My mother with Kate [Hudson, his sister] said, ‘You’re not going to do anything but plays until you’re 18-years-old, then you can go off and do your stuff.’ So I’m following in those footsteps, similarly to my mother,” he told HELLO!
Hudson, who is father to sons Wilder, 18, and Bodhi, 15, and daughter Rio, 12, shared that all three of his children are interested in acting, but he wants to protect them for as long as possible.
“I’m saying, ‘Go be in plays, be an amazing dancer on the dance team, be you, and we’ll figure all of that stuff out when you’re a bit older,’” he explained. “To subject [them] to whatever the rigors might be of being a child actor…we’ve seen it go great, we’ve seen it be detrimental, and why risk that? If you’ve got it, you’ve got it, you can wait a few years.”
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Hudson isn’t the only one who has recently remarked on Rio’s interest in the performing arts. Hawn’s partner of over 40 years, actor Kurt Russell, recently told E! News the family called the preteen “mini Goldie.”
“Rio is showing some serious chops with dancing ability,” he said. “There’s something about her. A lot of people call her ‘Mini Goldie.’”
Russell also commented on the number of actors in their family, saying, “It’s an interesting family in that regard. Nobody really intentionally looks at acting as something that must be, ‘We must follow this tradition.’ There’s nobody doing that. Whether it strikes you or not, it strikes a lot of us.”
Hawn has also spoken about her “mini Goldie” granddaughter, telling Access Hollywood last year, “I don’t think we have a choice frankly. Same with Kate. I didn’t have a choice, and I think this one, we don’t have a choice.”
The actress added, “All I want her to be is happy. I don’t care about anything else.”
In a 2022 interview with Australian Women’s Weekly, Hawn spoke about the importance of family, saying, “I look at our kids and grandchildren and there’s nothing in the world that could make me as proud as I am of all of them. Being a grandmother is amazing, I love it. It brings incredible joy. Family is so important.”
Acting might run in the family, but it looks like Hudson will be keeping his kids out of the spotlight for as long as possible.
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