She shot her latest flick, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, just two months after delivering her second child, and even coloured her hair brown on her film’s director, Mira Nair’s insistence – and though actor Kate Hudson admits Mira to be a tough one to work with, she still calls the filmmaker ‘family’. “When I first met Mira, I was eight months pregnant…(But) I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to work with her, she was amazing. She made it as comfortable as it could be,” Hudson, 34 tells us from New York. “When I met Mira, it felt like (I met) somebody familiar. She felt like a family member,” adds the actor. But when it comes to work, “Mira is a tough taskmaster. (At the same time) she creates an amazing atmosphere around her set. She is very passionate about her work and specific about the aesthetics of the film. She is very involved. What I admire about her is that she has this family atmosphere on set, but, she knows when she has to get something for her story and then she is very specific,” says Hudson, who will be seen playing Erica, an artist, in the film that hits theatres here on May 17. Asked her if it was Nair’s specific nature that made Hudson colour her hair, the actor says, “It was an essential thing for the character to have brown hair.” Adapted from Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid’s novel by the same name, Hudson reveals she found the script intriguing.
