Kate Hudson Zach Braff Movie: Hudson Joins Braff’s Controversial Kickstarter Funded Movie ‘Wish I Was Here’

Kate Hudson has joined the cast of Zach Braff's controversial Kickstarter-funded movie Wish I Was Here, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Hudson will play Braff's character's wife. She joins Josh Gad, Mandy Patinkin ("Homeland") and Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory"). Anna Kendrick is also listed on the film's IMDB page.

The film has already generated some controversy because of the funding it has received. After Kickstarter, a crowd-funding service in which fans can donate money to a particular project, helped raise funds for a long-awaited "Veronica Mars" movie, Braff decided to use the service to launch his own campaign for Wish I Was Here.

Braff raised more than $2 million in just four days, but not everyone was thrilled about a celebrity's using the site to finance his own project. The "Scrubs" alumnus hosted an online question-and-answer session to address the criticisms and wound up starting a public spat with Morgan Freeman. Braff criticized an "ask me anything" Freeman did on Reddit, and the older actor eventually shot back.

Braff will play a struggling actor in his thirties who gets back together with his family as tries to rediscover meaning in his life.

Hudson recent acting credits include a multi-episode arc on "Glee," as well as work in the films The Killer Inside Me and The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Her most famous role was Penny Lane in the 2000 hit Almost Famous, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She lost to Marcia Gay Harden.