Kate Hudson squashes rumor she made Matthew McConaughey wear deodorant (original) (raw)

Kate Hudson squashes rumor that she made Matthew McConaughey wear deodorant on Fools Gold set: 'No!'

"We’re au naturels, you know?”

Updated on July 18, 2024 01:18PM EDT

Kate Hudson wants the world to know that she did not make a stink about Matthew McConaughey not wearing deodorant while they were filming Fool’s Gold.

The Glass Onion actress addressed if there was any truth to the longstanding rumor that she once asked McConaughey — a notorious deodorant avoidant who has not worn it in more than 35 years — to put on some Speed Stick on the set of their 2008 rom-com-adventure film.

"No!" Hudson declared when asked about it on Watch What Happens Live. “No, he doesn’t wear deodorant. And by the way, I don’t either.”

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Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson in 'Fool's Gold'.

Warner Bros./courtesy Everett Collection

The actress and singer clarified that it wasn’t so much that McConaughey needed to wear deodorant, but rather that he had a very distinct smell. “My thing was that I could smell him from, you know, a mile [away] because we were so close!” she explained. “He’s an — we’re au naturels, you know?”

Rumblings about the situation first arose when McConaughey revealed in a 2008 Playboy interview that Hudson would often try to ply him with deodorizers when they were working on Fool’s Gold.

"She always brings a salt rock, which is some natural deodorant, and says, 'Would you please put this on?'" he told the outlet. "I just never wore it. No cologne, no deodorant. The women in my life, including my mother, have all said, 'Hey, your natural smell smells, one, like a man and, two, smells like you.'"

His Tropic Thunder costar Yvette Nicole Brown also attested to McConaughey’s natural aroma years later.

“I remember that Matthew McConaughey said that he did not use deodorant and that he didn't have an odor. So my first thought is, 'I'm going to get as close as I can to him to see if he's right,'" she recalled on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show in 2021. “He did not have an odor. He smells like granola and good living. He has a sweet, sweet scent that is just him and it's not musty or crazy."

"I believe he bathes because he smells delicious," she added. "He just didn't have deodorant on."

Watch Hudson discuss McConaughey's sweet scent in the video above.