Kate Hudson reflects on handling award season with no expectations

Kate Hudson reflected on how she learned to handle the excitement and kept her expectation low during award season.

The How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star credited Kurt Russell for teaching her to stay grounded before she went to 2001 Academy Awards after being nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in Almost Famous.

During her appearance on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, she revealed that Russell, her mother Goldie Hawn’s longtime partner, encouraged her to focus on the experience rather than the outcome.

"I was so young and it was such a whirlwind," she said, before sharing how Russell is "the great barometer of the business, my life."

"My dad, who raised me, he just kept saying, 'Don't listen to everybody. You never know. You never know what's going to happen. Sometimes you might win and you don't, and sometimes you don't think you're going to win and you might win,'" she added.

And even so many people told her that she will win, the Hollywood star said she attended the ceremony with no expectations and lost the trophy to Pollock's Marcia Gay Harden.

"You can't have the expectation," she said. "It was a good first lesson."

She said she will attend this year’s Oscars with the same mindset as she has been nominated for Song Sung Blue.

Hudson further revealed what she will say in her speech in case she wins. "I'm not a fan of the rehearsed speech," she shared.

"I like when it feels like from the heart, spontaneous and authentic or nervous and real. I have so many things to say about my family that I'm nervous to even prepare any of it.

“I think it just needs to come out the way it's supposed to come out."