Goldie Hawn Reveals the Moment She Fell in Love With Kurt Russell
They first met on the set of the 1968 Disney movie “The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band.”
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Kurt Russell snatched Goldie Hawn’s heart three decades ago when she watched him fall in love with her now-famous children, actors Oliver and Kate Hudson.
During a live Town Hall hosted by Andy Cohen to promote “Snatched,” Hawn’s new comedy with Amy Schumer, the Hollywood icon revealed how her romance with Russell began. They first met on the set of the 1968 Disney movie “The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band” when she was 20 and he was about 16.
“He was really cute, but he was too young,” Hawn explained with a laugh, but sparks later flew while the two filmed 1984’s “Swing Shift.”
“I remember I brought him back to my house, and we were going to go dancing together on the pretense that we had to do a jitterbug, which we never did. It was like a reason to go out,” Hawn said. “He came in to see my kids, and Katie and Oliver were sleeping. Katie was three, and Ollie was five. And I remember how he looked at the children, and I fell in love with him right there.”
Growing misty-eyed, she added, “I just got all welled up and thought, ‘Oh, if somebody could love my children the way I do, my life would be perfect.'”
