Jackman and Hudson take on Lightning & Thunder, a Neil Diamond cover duo that ends up opening for Pearl Jam before a fateful car crash<\/p>\n
\n\tHugh Jackman<\/a> and Kate Hudson<\/a> find love as a cover band performing Neil Diamond<\/a> songs in the second trailer for Song Sung Blue. <\/a><\/p>\n \n\tThe 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 \u201cSweet Caroline,\u201d the trailer opens with Jackman\u2019s Mike declaring, \u201cI\u2019m not a songwriter, I\u2019m not a sex symbol. But I am an entertainer,\u201d before Hudson\u2019s Claire comes in with her own take: \u201cI don\u2019t want to be a hairdresser, I wanna sing and dance and say, \u2018Look at me I made it.’\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe 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\u2019s looks. \u201cWe should call ourselves Lighting & Thunder,\u201d says Jackman at one point, before Hudson leans in for a kiss. \u201cThat\u2019s not very professional of me, but I\u2019ve been wanting to do it for a while,\u201d she admits, before Jackman pulls her back in for a sexier smooch.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tThe pair transform their music into a \u201cNeil Diamond experience\u201d 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. \u201cEverything is still really scary, but if you\u2019re there with me, we can be Lightning & Thunder,\u201d says Hudson, bound to a wheelchair in one scene. \u201cI am not afraid anymore!\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSong 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\u00a0Hustle & Flow\u00a0and\u00a0Black Snake Moan, wrote and directed the film based on a 2008 documentary about the real-life couple that inspired the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackman and Hudson take on Lightning & Thunder, a Neil Diamond cover duo that ends up opening for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,9044,85,46,9045,409,9047],"class_list":{"0":"post-116131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hugh-jackman","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-kate-hudson","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-neil-diamond"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}