Actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are considered one of the strongest star couples in Hollywood. When they met, they already had unsuccessful relationships and marriages behind them. But their love changed everything.
Goldie fell in love with Kurt from the first moment. They met at the audition for the film "Shift Change": Goldie was already approved for the main role of an unfaithful housewife, waiting for her husband from the war. And Russell was one of the actors who came to the audition that day.
He had just finished filming the successful film Silkwood (in this film, Russell's partners were Meryl Streep and singer Cher). And, in general, he was not at all eager to audition for a role in a new film. But he saw Goldie Hawn - a charming and funny blonde, standing with a script in her hand - he went up to her and said: "I'm very bad at reading aloud, but it's so nice to meet you." And they started screen tests...
Russell was absolutely relaxed. Natural. Pretty simple. Hawn also immediately appreciated his physical data. But, according to her confession, the main thing that attracted her to Russell was the feeling of inner peace and tranquility that the actor simply radiated. “He was so open and at the same time did not flirt with me at all. He was like a friend, and I thought, “God, what a cutie he is!” However, life is not a love story. Kurt and Goldie didn't walk hand in hand straight out of the studio into a brighter future.
Before that, in 1968, life had already brought Goldie and Kurt together on the set of the musical "The One and Only Genuinely Original Family Orchestra." They starred in episodic roles and separated for 20 years, barely exchanging a few words.
Russell had an unsuccessful marriage behind him, and Goldie had two. Russell had a two-year-old son, Boston, and Goldie had two children: five-year-old Oliver and three-year-old Katie. And then, in the end, they were accomplished stars. It was necessary to observe certain rules of decency ... Work began on the "Shift Change".
And Hawn made up her mind: she took the initiative in her own hands and began to build a fragile bridge between her and Kurt. I began to look closely at his style of work on the set and consult on how best to play this or that scene. She watched Kurt interact with his son, and realized that they adore each other. Watched him interact with her own children, whom she brought to the set, and she loved it.
It's so good when a man loves children ... "My heart did not sink into my heels every time I saw Russell," Goldie later admitted. “My hands didn’t sweat, and I didn’t think, “Oh my God, I can’t wait any longer!” There was none of this, and I am generally suspicious of such symptoms ... I just thought: “What a smart guy he is!” For me, Russell was out of competition from the very beginning ... ”According to the script, the actors who played lovers more than once ended up in bed.
In real life, they were also more and more drawn to each other ... The first step was taken by Kurt. A couple of weeks after filming began, on Valentine's Day, he turned to Goldie with a request to teach him how to dance the jitterbug.
The film didn't need it, but Goldie didn't show it. Kurt ended up taking his partner to the Playboy Club, where there was a lot of music, but no one was dancing. They talked all night and would have talked more, but the club was closed. In the morning the question arose: where to go?
Goldie lived in her mother's apartment, because her old house was flooded during the flood, and the new one was being renovated. After the divorce, Kurt lived with his sister. Like this: they were movie stars, famous people all over America, and they had absolutely nowhere to go. Russell asked, "So where are we going?" But all the nightclubs were already closed.
Then they decided to buy a beer and go to Mulholland Drive for a drive. On the way, Goldie plucked up her courage and invited Kurt to see her new home. “Everything is being redone there,” she apologized in advance for the mess. “But you can see the place where I live!” They went to the back door, Hawn opened the door for Russell, let him in the house, and then ... like a child jumped on his back, screaming: “How great it all is!” Kurt was taken aback, but in general he liked this style of communication. After all, he himself was always for spontaneity. And then everything was really like in a love story.
Hawn and Russell, remembering past ill-fated marital experiences, did not register their relationship. And, as it turned out, they did the right thing: the couple has been living together for 25 years - this is almost an eternity for fickle Hollywood.
They raised four children (a common child, Wyatt, quickly added to the noisy company of Boston, Oliver and Kate). The four brothers and sisters grew up as a cheerful, friendly, but very rebellious gang - just like in the movie "Overboard", where Goldie played a capricious rich lady who is re-educated by poor carpenter Kurt Russell and his four rowdy children.
In fact, it was Kurt who had the hardest time of all. It was not so easy for him to win the love of his son and daughter Goldie. When the couple began dating, Kurt announced to the children: “Just because I fell in love with your mother does not mean that I fell in love with you.
And the fact that I found myself in your life does not mean at all that you, in turn, should love me. Let's be honest with each other and be ourselves." The kids liked this approach, and very soon Kate and Oliver fell in love with Russell and began to call him simply “pa”. Yes, and Russell quickly became attached to foster children.
They decided not to marry - there is no point in strengthening what is already holding on so tightly.
The adopted children fell in love with the actor like a real father, and Kurt raised them as his children.
Goldie also has a very warm relationship with Boston, Kurt's son. With the advent of a common son, Wyatt, the family became even happier.
In the comedy "Overboard" Kurt and Goldie looked together so organically that it's hard to imagine someone else in their place.
Kurt and Goldie raised their children together in love and justice. Kate Hudson grew up to be a real movie star, Oliver also followed in the footsteps of his parents, Boston became a graduate of Georgetown at once, and Wyatt wants to become a professional hockey player.
Over time, a large family was replenished with grandchildren when Kate got married, and her brother Oliver got married.
Goldie and Kurt are always together and never miss each other.
They have become one of the most famous Hollywood couples who have been living together for over three decades.
Kurt Russell:
“We don't need marriage. Goldie and I don't have much respect for social norms at all. But we respect each other ... And as a result, only 2 percent of our lives were really bad, another 2 percent were so-so, and the remaining 96 were simply magical!
Goldie Hawn:
“I love waking up every day and seeing him by my side. It gives me the energy to live…”
Goldie Jeanne Hawn was born on November 21, 1945 in Washington, USA in the family of musician Edward Rutledge Hawn and the owner of a jewelry salon, as well as a dance school, Laura Hawn (nee Steinhoff). Goldie has German and English roots on her father's side, and Jewish roots on her mother's side. Laura Hawn's parents were immigrants from Hungary.
When Goldie was three years old, she started dancing at the suggestion of her mother. The girl achieved success in this art form, and at the age of 10 she took part in the ballet "The Nutcracker". In 1961, 16-year-old Hawn made her stage debut at the Virginia Shakespeare Festival, playing Juliet in a production of the classic Romeo and Juliet.
In 1964, after dropping out of the American University drama department, Hawn focused on ballet, both as a student and as a teacher. In 1965, Goldie appeared at the New York World's Fair as one of the can-can dancers. The girl impressed the right people who invited her to a large-scale striptease show.
Soon Goldie settled in New York as a dancer, but at the same time she tried to break into television. In this endeavor, the young beauty achieved success in 1967: Hawn joined the main cast of the sitcom "Good Morning, World", which lasted one season on the air. The actress appeared in 20 of the 26 episodes of the project.
In 1968, she signed up for a more successful comedy project, the sketch show Rowan and Martin's Jokes. Goldie was a regular on the program for three seasons (1968-1970), and appeared in 64 episodes of the project. In the same 1968, the actress played a cameo role in the film "The One and Only Genuinely Original Family Orchestra", which became her debut work in a big movie.
"Jokes of Rowan and Martin" became a confirmation that the non-professional actress Goldie Hawn has acting talent. The following role of the girl helped to make sure of this even more: in the film "Cactus Flower" (1969), Goldie appeared in the image of an eccentric girl Toni Simmons - the mistress of the protagonist Julian Winston played by actor Walter Matthau.
The very first big role in the movie brought Hawn victory at the prestigious awards "Golden Globe" and "Oscar" in the nomination "Best Supporting Actress". Following this dizzying success, her career naturally took off. 1969 in the life of Goldie was also significant in personal terms: the actress got married for the first time, her chosen one was the dancer, actor and director Gus Trikonis. On May 16, 1969, the couple got married in the capital of Hawaii, Honolulu, and in 1973 the husband and wife separated. The divorce of Trikonis and Hawn followed only in 1976. Not being officially divorced, the woman managed to have short romances with stuntman Ted Grossman and Swedish actor Bruno Winzell.
Between 1970 and 1982 Goldie Hawn's iconic films were Hey! There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), Dollars (1971), Butterflies Are Free (1972), Sugarland Express (1974), Shampoo (1975), The Duchess and Ragged Fox" (1976), "Dirty Game" (1978), "Private Benjamin" (1980), "Like in the good old days" (1980) and "Best Friends" (1982). Over the years, the fees of the actress gaining popularity grew exponentially: if in 1974 she received 300 thousand dollars for the main role in Steven Spielberg's crime drama "Sugarland Express", then six years later the image of the main character in the melodramatic comedy "Best Friends" was appreciated at 2.5 million dollars.
From 1971 to 1983, Hawn was nominated six times for the Golden Globe (1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, all nominations - "Best Actress (Comedy or Musical)"), claimed two British Academy Awards (1971 - two nominations for "Best Actress" for the films "Cactus Flower" and Hey! There's a Girl in My Soup") and was once nominated for an Oscar (1981, "Best Actress" for the film "Private Benjamin").
During these years, not only Goldie's career was rich, but also her personal life. In the summer of 1975, the actress met singer Bill Hudson, a member of The Hudson Brothers. Hawn and Hudson began dating, on July 3, 1976, they officially got married, and on September 7, Goldie gave birth to Bill's first child, son Oliver. Three years later (April 19, 1979) Hudson and Hawn's second child, Kate, was born. Subsequently, Oliver and Kate followed in the footsteps of their mother and became actors.
Goldie Hawn in The Banger Sisters On August 15, 1980, Bill Hudson filed for divorce, which took place two years later - in March 1982. Goldie Hawn, after breaking up with her husband, did not despair for a long time and from the beginning of 1983 started an affair with a colleague Kurt Russell, whom she met back in 1967 on the set of the film "The One and Only Truly Original Family Orchestra". The development of relations between the actors was facilitated by the joint work - the film "Shift Change" (1984), on the set of which Kurt and Goldie started an office romance.
Hawn and Russell are still together, although they have not legalized their relationship. They have a child together, Wyatt Russell (b. July 10, 1986). Also, Goldie is actually the stepmother to Boston Russell, Kurt's son from his first marriage, and Kurt treats Oliver and Kate Hudson as if they were his own children.
After "Shift Change" in the career of Goldie Hawn, there were quite a few significant works. Of these, it is worth highlighting the tapes "Wild Cats" (1986), "Overboard" (1987, the third joint work with Kurt Russell), "Bird on a Wire" (1990), "Deception" (1991), "Housewife" (1992) , "Death Becomes Her" (1992), "The First Wives Club" (1996), "Everyone Says I Love You" (1996), "The Visitors" (1999), "The Banger Sisters" (2002) and "Phineas and Ferb" (2013, 1 episode, debut as a voice actress).
Her latest film - the comedy "Daughter and Her Mother" - received devastating reviews from critics and audiences, although it paid off its budget. Who knows if this failure will stop Goldie Hawn or whether she will continue to act in films, reminding the public of her skill?
Nationality
Svetlana
2006-04-27 19:24:11
Good article. But if she mentioned the nationality of men (Greek and Turkish blood), just for the sake of decency, you can not hesitate to point out that the heroine herself is Jewish.
The comedy film "Overboard" (actors Russell and Hawn) can be called a family work. The main characters have become the embodiment of a real family life, a star couple who have been happily living with their four children for over thirty years.
Briefly about the film
In 1987, director Garry Marshall released the comedy Overboard. The actors played the plot, according to which a rich and eccentric beauty loses her memory and turns out to be the mother of four naughty sons.
The heroine of the film, Joanna, is always unhappy with everything. She had fun on the yacht, and to remodel her wardrobe, she hired a carpenter from the town in which the yacht was being repaired. A carpenter named Dean did his job, but instead of being paid for his work, he was thrown overboard.
On the same night, the billionaire herself falls overboard and loses her memory. Joanne's husband doesn't want to take her out of the hospital while having fun with other women. The owner of the yacht is taken in by carpenter Dean. So he decided to take revenge on the woman for her whims. From that time on, Joanna becomes Annie - Dean's "wife" and the "mother" of his children.
She learns to manage household chores, take care of her "husband" and "sons". Life in the family becomes joyful and orderly. After a while, this idyll is destroyed by the announced husband Joanne. The woman remembers her past and returns to the yacht. But she has already changed and does not agree to live as before. The boys with Dean also miss "mom". The film "Overboard" ends with a happy reunion of the lovers and their wedding.
Joanna Staton
The role of the eccentric billionaire was played by Goldie Hawn. The actress was born on 11/21/1945 in Washington. She was the daughter of a musician and a jewelry store owner. The girl was engaged in ballet and dancing from the age of three. She made her acting debut at the age of sixteen in a production of Romeo and Juliet.
The first significant film role was the role of the carefree girl Tony in the film "Cactus Flower". For this role, she received an Oscar in 1969. Other significant works of the actress were films:
- "Sugarland Express";
- "Shampoo";
- "Private Benjamin";
- "Overboard".
The actors, among whom was Hawn, wrote an open letter to the German government in 1997 stating that it was unacceptable for the rights of Scientology followers to be infringed upon. The actress has been a Buddhist since 1972. She has not acted in films since 2002. Her last work was the painting "The Banger Sisters".
Dean Proffitt
The role of the father of four sons was played by Kurt Russell. He is best known for his work in action films and fantasy films. Russell was born on May 17, 1951 in Springfield. As the son of a television actor, he began acting in films at the age of six. From the age of eleven, he signed a contract with the Disney studio.
Despite such success in the movies, Russell dreamed of playing professional baseball. But a shoulder injury brought him back to acting.
The best work of the actor:
- "Elvis";
- "Escape from New York";
- "Something";
- "Tango and Cash";
- "Reverse thrust";
- "Star Gates";
- "Route 60";
- "Death Proof"
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the actor has rarely acted in films, living quietly with his family. His life became perfect, like in the comedy Overboard. The actors who played the main roles, in reality, created a strong relationship that has lasted for more than thirty years.
star couple
For the first time, the actors met in 1968, participating in the same film musical. After that, each of them created his own family: Russell married Season Hubley and became the father of Boston's son, and Hawn married Gus Hawn, and later Bill Hudson and became the mother of son Oliver and daughter Kate.
The actors liked each other in 1983 on the set of the film "Shift Change". By this time they were both divorced. After three weeks of filming, Russell made the first move and the couple decided to move in together. However, they did not formalize their relationship officially.
Since 1983, the couple began to live with children from previous marriages. The actors had a common child. They named him White. According to Goldie and Kurt, after that, the noisy family was filled with even more laughter.
The film "Overboard" just conveys the atmosphere in which the actors began to live. They became loving parents to their children. They are rarely in public, but if they are not hiding from reporters, smiling with pleasure at the camera. Who were their children?
Kate and Oliver have become actors, Boston has a degree in theology and neuroscience, and White is preparing to become a professional hockey player.
Did you know that the title of the strongest couple in Hollywood now belongs to actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Their love crossed out all the unsuccessful relationships and marriages behind them.
This was love at first sight. Goldie fell in love with Kurt from the first moment. They met at the audition for the film "Shift Change": Goldie has already received the main role of an unfaithful housewife who is waiting for her husband from the war. And Russell was the actor who showed up that day for the audition.
He had just completed work on the successful film Silkwood (in this film, Russell's partners were Meryl Streep and singer Cher). He had no desire to act in a new film.
But at the audition, he saw Goldie Hawn - a charming and laughing blonde who held the sheets in her hands - he approached her and said: "I'm very bad at reading aloud, but it's so nice to meet you." And they started screen tests...
Russell was simple, behaved naturally. Hawn adequately appreciated his natural data. Then she said that in Russell she was attracted by the feeling of inner peace and peace that was in the actor.
“He was so open and at the same time did not flirt with me at all. He was like a friend, and I thought, “God, what a cutie he is!” However, life is not a love story. Kurt and Goldie did not immediately go into a brighter future, holding hands.
In 1968, Goldie and Kurt heard and saw each other on the set of the musical The One and Only Authentic Original Family Orchestra. There they had episodic roles, after which they parted for 20 years.
Russell had a failed marriage behind him, and Goldie had two. Russell had a two-year-old son, Boston, and Goldie had two children: five-year-old Oliver and three-year-old Katie.
At the time of their fateful meeting, they were already established actors. They had to follow the rules of decency. Work began on the painting "Shift Change".
And Hawn took all her hands and decided to start a relationship. I began to look closely at how it works, and, at some points, ask for advice. She liked Kurt's relationship with his son, they adored each other. Kurt communicated well with her children, she was fascinated by him.
It's good when a man loves children. “My heart didn’t sink into my heels every time I saw Russell,” Goldie later admitted. “My hands didn’t sweat, and I didn’t think, “Oh my God, I can’t wait any longer!” There was none of this, and I am generally suspicious of such symptoms ... I just thought: “What a smart guy he is!”
For me, Russell was out of competition from the very beginning ... ”According to the script, the actors who played lovers were in bed several times.
With each day spent on the set, they were drawn to each other more and more. Kurt was brave. A couple of weeks after filming began, on Valentine's Day, he asked Goldie for help to teach him how to dance the jitterbug.
Goldie knew the film didn't require it, but she didn't admit it. Kurt took his partner to the Playboy club, where there was a lot of music, but no one was dancing. They talked until the moment the club closed. They had a question: where to go?
Goldie lived in her mother's apartment, as her old house was flooded during the flood, and the new one was being renovated. And Kurt lived with his sister. Like this: they were famous stars of America, and there was nowhere to go to continue the evening. Russell asked, "So where are we going?" But all the nightclubs were already closed.
Then they decided to buy a beer and go to Mulholland Drive for a drive. On the way, Goldie plucked up her courage and invited Kurt to take a look at her new home. “Everything is being redone there,” she apologized in advance for the mess. “But you can see the place where I live!” 
They went to the back door, Hawn opened the door for Russell, he went into the house, and she, like a child, jumped on his back with the words: “How great it all is!” Kurt was a little taken aback, but he liked it. Further actions developed, as in a real love story.
Hawn and Russell, looking at their experience, decided not to register their relationship. And it was the right decision: the couple has been living together for more than 30 years - this is a lot for fickle Hollywood.
Together they raised four children, they have a common child - Wyatt. The four brothers and sisters grew up as a cheerful, friendly, but very naughty gang - like in the movie "Overboard", where Goldie played a capricious rich lady who is trying to raise a poor carpenter Kurt Russell and his four naughty children.
Kurt had the hardest time. He needed to win the love of Goldie's children. When the couple first started dating, Kurt told the kids, "Just because I fell in love with your mother doesn't mean I fell in love with you. And the fact that I found myself in your life does not mean at all that you, in turn, should love me. Let's be honest with each other and be ourselves."
The children liked Kurt's words and they fell in love with Russell, they began to call him simply "pa". Yes, and Russell very quickly became attached to the children.
They did not marry, as their relationship was already strong.
All new children loved Kurt like a real father, and he brought them up with dignity.
Goldie also developed a warm relationship with Boston, Kurt's son. When they had a common child, they became much happier.
In Overboard, Kurt and Goldie complemented each other, no other actors would fit better than them.
Kurt and Goldie raised their children together in love and justice. Kate Hudson grew up to be a real movie star, Oliver also followed in the footsteps of his parents, Boston became a graduate of Georgetown in two departments at once, and Wyatt plans to become a famous hockey player.
The family grew larger, grandchildren appeared when Kate got married, and her brother Oliver got married.
Goldie and Kurt always spend every minute together. They are never bored.
They became the most famous Hollywood couple who were able to keep their love.
Kurt Russell: We don't need marriage. Goldie and I don't have much respect for social norms at all. But we respect each other ... And as a result, only 2 percent of our lives were really bad, another 2 percent were so-so, and the remaining 96 were simply magical!
Goldie Hawn: “I love waking up every day and seeing him by my side. It gives me the energy to live…”
All such pure and sincere love, like Goldie and Kurt.
The second wife of Kurt Russell, actress Goldie Hawn, before meeting him, experienced an unpleasant period of her personal life - a divorce from her previous husband, actor Bill Hudson, who turned out to be the same money-grubber as her first husband, actor Gus Trikonis. During the divorce, both ex-husbands sued Goldie one for solid money, and the other for a large house in Malibu, leaving her alone with two children in her arms. Goldie Hawn met Kurt Russell at the audition for the film Shift Change, and the actor, who was not eager to star in this film, saw Goldie and decided to accept the invitation. This happened in 1983, and since that time they have not parted anymore.
Interestingly, the first time they met much earlier, when Russell was only sixteen years old, and Goldie was twenty-two, and this happened on the set of the musical "The One and Only Original Family Orchestra", in which they were involved in episodic roles. However, then they parted for twenty whole years and met again when Kurt was in the process of divorcing his first wife, actress Season Hubley, his partner in the movie Elvis, who gave birth to his son Boston.
In the photo - Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in his youth
The final reunion between Russell and Hawn came about through their joint participation in Jonathan Demme's Change of Partners in the Rhythm of Swing. They started dating, and after a while they began to live together, and this civil marriage still exists.
Goldie said that she immediately liked Kurt, but she looked at him for a long time, until Russell himself took the first step towards their rapprochement. Three years after the start of family life, they had a common child - the son of Wyatt, named after the character played by Kurt Russell back in 1994 - the legendary sheriff from the Wild West.
In the photo - with the youngest son
Wyatt became the fourth child in their large and friendly family. Goldie's children loved Kurt, and he treated them like family. Goldie also quickly found a common language with his son from his first marriage, Boston, who, after his father's divorce from Season, remained with him.
The children of Goldie Hawn Kate and Oliver followed in the footsteps of their parents and also became actors, Boston graduated from two faculties of Georgetown University at once. The younger Wyatt also chose acting, although as a child he dreamed of becoming a professional hockey player.
The celebrity couple Hawn and Russell have their own home in Palm Desert, California, but most of the time they live on their ranch near Aspen, Colorado. Kurt Russell's wife said in an interview that she likes to wake up every day and see Kurt next to her, it gives her energy to live. She has the rare ability to ignore adversity and accept life as it is with gratitude and joy. Perhaps she learned this wisdom from Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, in which she began to show interest in 1972. The actress says that she tried to bring up her children in these traditions.
In 2002, Goldie Hawn founded a charitable educational foundation, bringing together many teachers, psychologists, neurophysiologists, the purpose of which is to help parents in the upbringing and effective comprehensive development of children. Spouses, who are still not officially married, say that they cannot get a divorce because they are not scheduled, and the feeling of freedom brings a touch of freshness to their relationship and makes them brighter and sharper. During their long biography, they managed to star in several films together, one of the most interesting of which was the film Overboard, and in May of this year the actors became owners of two stars at once on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This joyful event came to celebrate with their parents their adult children Kate Hudson and Boston Russell.