{"id":9050,"date":"2025-12-14T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/hugh-jackman-and-kate-hudson-on-the-musical-alchemy-of-song-sung-blue\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:14:58","slug":"hugh-jackman-and-kate-hudson-on-the-musical-alchemy-of-song-sung-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/hugh-jackman-and-kate-hudson-on-the-musical-alchemy-of-song-sung-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson on the musical alchemy of &#8220;Song Sung Blue&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Last week, at a New York bar called Old Mates, Australian icon Hugh Jackman sang a few songs by an American icon, Neil Diamond. He&#8217;s been doing a lot of this lately.<\/p>\n<p>His new film, &#8220;Song Sung Blue,&#8221; is based on the real-life story of Mike and Claire Sardina, celebrity impersonators who teamed up to form a Neil Diamond tribute act by the name of Lightning &amp; Thunder. Jackman was cast early on as Mike, and director Craig Brewer was still looking for someone to play Claire, when Jackman got an idea from watching TV: &#8220;Yeah. It&#8217;s this little-known show, &#8216;CBS Sunday Morning,'&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hugh-jackman-and-kate-hudson-on-the-musical-alchemy-of-song-sung-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, at a New York bar called Old Mates, Australian icon Hugh Jackman sang a few songs by an American icon,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}