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The actress recently recalled that she originally \u201cgot the part for Anita,\u201d who was ultimately played by Zooey Deschanel<\/a>, and how she convinced writer\/director Cameron Crowe<\/a> to cast her as the leader of the rock & roll-supporting \u2018Band<\/a>-Aids\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then, Sarah Polley<\/a> was supposed to play Penny Lane<\/a>, and Brad Pitt<\/a> was supposed to play Russell, and then, they fell through. And I was the only one cast,\u201d Hudson told Entertainment Tonight<\/a>. \u201cI was like, \u2018Cameron, can I please audition for Penny Lane?\u2019 And he didn\u2019t really want it at first. \u2026 And then like, four auditions later, finally he called me, and he was like, \u2018You wanna be Penny Lane?\u2019 I was like, \u2018Oh my god, Yes!’\u201d<\/p>\n The rest is history, as Hudson played…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marking the 25th anniversary of her Oscar-nominated breakout performance in Almost Famous, Kate Hudson is reflecting on the iconic role of Penny Lane. The actress recently recalled that she originally \u201cgot the part for Anita,\u201d who was ultimately played by Zooey Deschanel, and how she convinced writer\/director Cameron Crowe to cast her as the leader […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2020381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2020380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kate-Hudson-Recalls-\u2018Almost-Famous-Role-She-Nearly-Played.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}