Photo: Carlo Paloni/BAFTA via Getty Images On a rainy afternoon in an East Village noodle shop, Kate Hudson is swearing me to secrecy. “This is my favorite place,” she says as we sit down in an establishment that I agree to keep nameless. “Don’t tell anybody. Just call it a ‘mysterious favorite.’” As she settles in, pulling a thick off-white sweater over her head, she explains that she’s been a regular here since she lived in the neighborhood years ago; they bring her a Perrier before she even