Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson find love as a cover band performing Neil Diamond songs in the second trailer for Song Sung Blue.
The clip offers a closer look at the inspired-by-real-life love story of Mike and Claire Sardina, who performed as Lightning & Thunder. Aptly set to “Sweet Caroline,” the trailer opens with Jackman’s Mike declaring, “I’m not a songwriter, I’m not a sex symbol. But I am an entertainer,” before Hudson’s Claire comes in with her own take: “I don’t want to be a hairdresser, I wanna sing and dance and say, ‘Look at me I made it.’”
The trailer captures Mike and Claire meeting after one of her gigs and joking about Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn. They eventually decide to start a Diamond cover band, given Mike’s looks. “We should call ourselves Lighting & Thunder,” says Jackman at one point, before Hudson leans in for a kiss. “That’s not very professional of me, but I’ve been wanting to do it for a while,” she admits, before Jackman pulls her back in for a sexier smooch.
The pair transform their music into a “Neil Diamond experience” and even book a gig opening for Pearl Jam. But the trailer also offers a glimpse a frightening car crash that derails their career and life plans. “Everything is still really scary, but if you’re there with me, we can be Lightning & Thunder,” says Hudson, bound to a wheelchair in one scene. “I am not afraid anymore!”
Song Sung Blue is set to hit theaters on Dec. 25, and also stars Michael Imperioli, Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, Hudson Hensley, and Jim Belushi. Craig Brewer, who directed Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan, wrote and directed the film based on a 2008 documentary about the real-life couple that inspired the story.
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