Kate Hudson and the snake

Ask Samuel Jackson, snakes are scary (especially at the box office). So Kate Hudson’s reaction when she found a five-foot rattlesnake on her trailer’s doorstep is completely understandable.

The 30-year-old actress was filming new movie “The Killer Inside Me” in New Mexico when she opened her trailer door to discover the sleeping snake.

A source said: “Kate shrieked, ‘SsssssSNAKE!’ The reptile coiled, hissed and rattled and crew members came running.”

Hudson was so scared she began “hyperventilating” and could not be persuaded to come out of her dressing room until the snake had been disposed of.

The source continued: “Kate opened the door a crack, peered out to make sure the coast was clear, then stormed over to producers and make them assign a guard to stand snake-watch outside her trailer.”