Kate Hudson’s newest awards-season excessive simply collided with a really public household feud. Hudson landed an Oscar nomination for her position in “Tune Sung Blue,” however the information is being met with blistering criticism from Mike Sardina Jr., the son of the late Mike Sardina, the real-life man Hugh Jackman portrayed within the movie. Jackman and Hudson led the forged as real-life husband-and-wife Mike and Claire Sardina, Milwaukee-based Neil Diamond impersonators from the Nineteen Nineties who fashioned a band referred to as Lightning and Thunder. However whereas Hollywood is celebrating Kate Hudson’s efficiency, Sardina Jr. is looking the reward “disgusting” and says the movie has erased him and his sister from his father’s legacy.

In an interview with the Every day Mail, Mike Jr. didn’t maintain again when requested about Hudson’s work, and his overview couldn’t be farther from the accolades being handed out this season. “I believed her efficiency was weak. I don’t know why everyone seems to be kissing her rear over it,” he mentioned. “The story was weak, and the appearing was not nice on the eyes or ears.”

He reportedly views the acclaim round her efficiency as “disgusting” and referred to as the nomination itself an “abomination,” additionally claiming her portrayal had “no depth in any respect.” He added that he “definitely didn’t imagine for a second that she was a performer.”

And he didn’t cease with Hudson.

In keeping with Mike Jr., Kate Hudson wasn’t the one one who missed the mark. He mentioned he felt the ‘identical’ about Jackman and Jim Belushi, who performed the tribute band’s supervisor Tom D’Amato. “Kate and Hugh’s performances are SO off base, and it was like watching individuals who didn’t care making an attempt to play a person who cared for God and others greater than something,” he mentioned.

“Kate’s efficiency was so lax, so uncaring, it’s laborious to imagine she was making an attempt in any respect,” he continued, dismissing her as a “horrible actress” and slating the film as a “travesty” and a “shame” that had left his late father “rolling in his grave.”

Mike Jr. additionally took purpose on the whole manufacturing, including, “Disgrace on anybody who is part of this movie and continues to disclaim my sister and I my father’s legacy, which he labored his entire life to realize and go on to his son.”

However the household isn’t totally united on the movie or Kate Hudson’s efficiency. Mike Jr.’s sister, Angelina, supplied a way more constructive take, saying, “I feel Kate did an incredible job,” and describing Hudson’s nomination as “well-deserved” and her work as “excellent.”

Angelina even mentioned Kate Hudson outshone Jackman in her eyes, claiming he “did okay, nevertheless it did not really feel like my dad. I felt like he was somebody enjoying my dad, however he fell wanting the character.”

The strain surrounding the film goes past efficiency critiques. Final month, Mike Jr. claimed his existence was “purposely reduce out of the movie” and mentioned he was paid “a pathetic $30,000” to be a “marketing consultant” on the challenge. He’s listed as a marketing consultant alongside Angelina, who was portrayed on display by singer-songwriter King Princess, and she or he confirmed she acquired the identical amount of cash.

In textual content messages between Angelina and producer John Fox from September to December 2024, Fox confirmed the $30,000 determine. Fox additionally acknowledged her frustrations concerning the lack of enter, telling her, “I completely perceive, and I am sorry, know it isn’t probably the most superb state of affairs.”

Angelina’s contract reportedly said there was no obligation to seek the advice of and that she licensed a fictionalized telling of herself and the story. She additionally mentioned, “I did not have any contact with King Princess, who performed me. And I did not have any contact with Kate Hudson or Hugh Jackman, anybody from the forged.”