Goldie Hawn Says She Doesn’t Know Where ‘Real Movie Stars’ Are ‘Anymore’ in Comparison to ‘the Old Days’

Goldie Hawn praised daughter Kate Hudson for her performance in Song Sung Blue, while hinting that Hollywood is lacking movie stars in today’s generation.

During a chat with Hudson, 46, at a screening of her new film on Tuesday, January 13, Hawn, 80, admitted Hollywood is “very different” now than when she was a young actress.

“Right now we have so many ways to see things, outlets. I don’t know where stars are anymore, to tell you the truth; real, real movie stars,” the Overboard star explained, per The Hollywood Reporter. “I consider you one of them and there are some of them, I don’t mean to put anybody down.”

“I’m just saying that there’s so much content out there that it’s very different,” Hawn continued. “I don’t want to say diluted, but it’s not a bad word.”

She explained that when films were only able to be viewed in theaters, “it was an event.”

“That’s how I grew up, and that means when you do a comedy for instance, you hear a s**tload of people laughing,” Hawn shared. “You know how great that feels? You know how contagious that feels?”

“When you see like in the old days, the big Clark Gables and Warren Beattys and Jack Nicholsons with that big smile; you don’t get the same hit [today],” she added. “So movie stars have become something of — it’s not quite as exciting. But boy back then, it was very exciting.”

According to the First Wives Club star — whose longtime partner Kurt Russell helped raise Hudson and her brother, Oliver — she was brought to tears the first time she saw Song Sung Blue, in which the Almost Famous actress and Hugh Jackman portray a real-life couple who started a Neil Diamond tribute band.

Russell “went to the bathroom and came back because he was a little weepy himself and he said, ‘She might be the greatest actress of all time,’” referring to Hudson.