Kate Hudson was very close to playing Meryl Streep‘s assistant!
Before Anne Hathaway landed the lead role of Andy Sachs in 2006′s The Devil Wears Prada, Kate, 45, was one of the many actresses that turned down the offer for the role.
In a new interview, Kate admitted that she regrets passing on the role.
Keep reading to find out more…“That was a bad call. It was a timing thing, it was one of those things where I couldn’t do it, and I should’ve made it happen, and I didn’t,” Kate shared on Capital FM’s Capital Breakfast. “That was one where when I saw it I was like, ‘Ugh.’”
Despite what could have been, Kate said that she believes “everything happens for a reason.”
“It’s funny, it’s waves of things that are happening and people shooting at different times,” Kate explained. “It’s not like you don’t do them because you don’t want to do them. It’s like, oh, you’re doing something else. And it just sucked, you know?”
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