Six years ago, Kate Hudson and Heath Ledger starred together in the movie, Four Feathers.

In the middle of promoting her new movie Fool’s Gold with Matthew McConaughey, Kate stopped for a moment to reflect on the tragic loss of Heath Ledger.

“Everybody’s still processing it,” she said at a press event Friday. “It’s very sad, and he is loved. We’re just thinking about his family right now.”

On Thursday, Hudson and Ledger’s Four Feathers director, Shekhar Kapur, said in a Web posting about Ledger, “He was one the most gentle, the most honest, most caring and most compassionate persons I had met. And one of the most honest actors I worked with.”

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