On an Instagram post from The Hollywood Reporter about Hudson’s comments, Dave Bautista wrote, “Kate!!!” with a hand-raising emoji. (Hilariously, “Vanderpump Rules” legend Jax Taylor also weighed in on the post, saying, “enough marvel movies we need more rom coms and comedy’s [sic].”)
Bautista — who has been vocal about putting his days as Drax the Destroyer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe firmly in his rearview mirror — worked with Hudson on Rian Johnson’s second “Knives Out” murder mystery, “Glass Onion,” which was met with commercial and critical acclaim when it was released in late 2022. The wrestler-turned-actor has certainly been spreading his wings as a performer lately; after working with Johnson and Hudson, he starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2023 thriller “Knock at the Cabin,” lent his voice to the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s latest animated masterpiece “The Boy and the Heron,” and will reprise his role as Glossu Rabban in “Dune: Part Two” after working with director Denis Villeneuve on the first movie in 2021.
Bautista has serious range as an actor, and if he’s willing to join Kate Hudson in a romantic comedy eventually, it feels like audiences would wholeheartedly embrace that choice.
