Making the most of her time in the Big Easy, Kate Hudson was busy checking out the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans, Louisiana on Saturday afternoon (February 6).

The “Fool’s Gold” actress was joined by her young son, Ryder Robinson, with the twosome surrounded by police security during the day’s outing.

As previously reported by Gossip Center, Miss Hudson has been in New Orleans to film “Earthbound” – which is “a comedy about a guarded woman who finds out she’s dying of cancer, but when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.”

With Whoopi Goldberg and Kathy Bates joining the cast, production is scheduled to conclude on March 7, while a release date has not yet been announced. [SOURCE]