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Helen, is about the struggles of motherhood. The film brought her together with Gary Marshall, whom she met while her parents were shooting the film Overboard with the director. “He was so memorable as a kid and Overboard was such a family set,” she says about the 1987 film. “It was almost like this movie.” Working with Marshall at such a different time in her life, from being a child to thinking about having one, affected Hudson. “When I read the script, it was obviously something that hit home for me,” she says. “I was at a time where I was thinking about having kids, so it kind of fit in perfectly to my mindset at the time.”

Of course, things are a bit different for Hudson than for her character in the film, a successful, hip modeling agent who suddenly finds herself the guardian of her late sister’s three children and has to reconcile her two worlds. Hudson says that she and her husband, Chris Robinson, were ready to have children. “I think it’s the best we’ve ever felt being together,” she says. “Finding time to be alone is hard, but we’ve been alone for four years.” While her real-life man certainly has an interesting profession as a musician both as a solo artist and lead singer of the band The Black Crowes, her love-interest in “Raising Helen” has an even more…unusual career. When Hudson was surprised she’d be romancing a pastor, but was excited when she found out who would be playing Dan Parker. “When I found out it was John Corbett I was pretty happy about it. He is a sexy Man of God,” she jokes.

Interestingly, Hudson is happy that she was not already a mother while filming Raising Helen. “I’ve seen this movie about a hundred times now and I just saw it again for the first time since I’ve had the baby,” Hudson says. “I’m so happy I wasn’t a mom when I made it because it would have been a different character.” Hudson says that having Ryder changed her perspective of the film. “It was so much more emotional for me as a mother than it was when I saw it when I was pregnant.”

Hudson says that her parents were a big influence on her, and she looks to them on how she and her husband will raise Ryder. “They’re my role models as a parent. I can only hope that when Ryder and the next kids come they like me as much as I like my mom.” A particularly memorable moment for her was when she first introduced her newborn son to her father. “I…remember being rolled out of the surgery room right after I had him and I looked up at my Pa and I said, ‘Did you meet Ryder Russell?’”

Which, of course, leads to the question of that name. While not ...

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