Oliver Hudson Wants to See ‘Pioneer’ Mom Goldie Hawn Back on the Big Screen: ‘She’s a F—ing Icon’

“I want to see her on screen. This is where she thrives,” Hudson said on his ‘Sibling Revelry’ podcast

Oliver Hudson is paying tribute to his “pioneer” mom Goldie Hawn after her appearance at the 2025 Oscars.

Hudson, 48, took the mic solo on the latest episode of Sibling Revelry, the podcast he hosts with sister Kate Hudson, to reflect on their mother’s trailblazing career. The actor said it was “amazing” and “emotional” to watch Hawn, 79, present the award for Best Animated Film alongside Andrew Garfield at the Academy Awards last Sunday, March 2.

“Number one, yes, she’s my mother and she will always be my mother,” he said. “I don’t look at her as anything else.”

But aside from being his beloved mom, Hudson noted that Hawn was and still is “a force” in Hollywood.

“She was a pioneer, let’s say, fighting for her creativity, fighting for her ideas, not taking s—, and paving the way for a lot of young women to become what they’ve become,” he explained. “She’s a f—— icon that way, and so it was emotional for me to watch her on stage looking incredible.”

Hudson also admitted that seeing his mom at the Oscars made him “sad in a way.”

“I want to see her on screen. This is where she thrives,” he said. “This is what where she belongs.”

While Hawn has appeared opposite husband Kurt Russell in Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and its 2020 sequel, her last major film role was in 2017’s Snatched, opposite Amy Schumer. Hudson noted that in recent years his mom has chosen to focus her energy on her non-profit, the Hawn Foundation, and has “done amazing stuff.” But he’s still eager to see her back on the big screen.

“There’s nobody like her. I don’t think anyone ever will come along like her,” he said. “I go back and watch some of her old movies and it’s incredible how amazing she is. Not just how funny, but what an incredible actor she is. You know, what she brings to these characters and these roles, which is something you can’t really define. You can’t practice it. You can’t try to do it. It’s just innate.”

The And Just Like That… actor said that he and his family recently got together to watch Hawn in director Steven Spielberg’s The Sugarland Express to mark its 50th anniversary. In the 1974 crime drama, Hawn plays a Texas woman who, along with her escaped convict husband (William Atherton), takes a police officer hostage in an effort to prevent their young son from being placed in foster care.

“It was just amazing to watch this woman go to work. Just crazy,” Hudson said of the film. “I just wanna see her work because she’s just so good. She’s just so awesome.”

Following Hawn’s appearance on the Oscars telecast, Hudson joked in an Instagram post that he “became concerned that my mom was now gonna love Andrew Garfield more than me.”

“I’m still not sure where I stand. She hasn’t responded to my texts so….” he wrote in the post’s caption.

In the post’s comments, Hawn jokingly responded: “I’m sorry I didn’t answer your texts honey, I was talking to Andrew!!!”