First things first: Lightning & Thunder are not a Neil Diamond cover band, they are Diamond “interpreters.” That’s what a Hugh Jackman‘s Mike Sardina learns from Kate Hudson‘s Claire Stengl in the first trailer for the pair’s upcoming holiday feel-good movie Song Sung Blue.

The pairing of the actors who both have deep musical experience — Jackman in a number of Broadway musicals and Hudson via her 2024 album Glorious — comes in a film telling the real-life story of two struggling musicians who find their special purpose when they form a Diamond-covering duo.

“I’m not a songwriter, I’m not a sex symbol — I just want to entertain people,” Jackman’s Sardina tells Hudson’s Stengl in the sneak peek of the film from writer-director Craig Brewer (Coming 2 America). “I don’t wanna be a hairdress

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