They began dating in 1983 and since then they have starred in one of the most admired relationships in the film industry that they have never wanted to seal with a marriage.

Maintaining a couple for 37 years is hard work, doing it as two well-known Hollywood actors is almost a feat. But this is the case of Kurt Russel and Goldie Hawn, a duo that has won the affection of the American film industry and the admiration of their peers for the strength of a relationship that did not start off on the right foot.

Goldie and Kurt had already met in the movie Crazy, Crazy Band in 1968, but then she was 23 years old and about to marry her first husband. The how and why of their connection when they met again several years later on the set of the movie Swing Shift , a war drama directed by Jonathan Demme, had been one of the little secrets that Russel and Hawn kept for their privacy. In 2017 the actor relaxed about it during an interview on the occasion of the promotion of the film Fast & Furious 8 , and has recently done it again on the CBS Sunday Morning program, accompanied by his partner, and recounted how their first date ended, a meeting that both had planned to prepare for their role in the film they co-starred in. It was to her that it occurred to her that it might be a good idea for them to go out together to dance to swing music , since Russell played a musician of this type of rhythm.

And he was the one who found the place, the Playboy Club, the only one he knew that kept playing that kind of music. “I immediately realized that I was having a great time with that girl,” said Kurt Russell, “so we continued the night.” The couple arrived at the house that the actress had recently bought but did not have her key, although they managed to enter that half-furnished house. When they had gotten down to business and were in the heat of the sexual heat, they were interrupted by the police who believed they were burglars in Hawn’s own home. It was only a parenthesis because they decided to find a hotel to continue what the authority’s visit had interrupted.

Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell

Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell in a file photo with their children, Oliver, Wyatt and Kate.

“That was our first date,” Russell said. “It was a lot of fun, but I’ll say one thing: I can’t believe it was so long ago!” Now, in his most recent interview, he has added new data from that meeting: “When I met Goldie I was at a point in my life where I was definitely going to give my worst when it comes to a romantic relationship. I think I showed it and I thought, if you can handle this maybe there is a chance that we can be together. “

According to Kurt Russell in their first meeting he had a horrible hangover. Goldie has replied: “But you were a lot of fun. I don’t think that if you had shown your worst, I would be here now. ” Laughing at these anecdotes, neither of them knew how to find a key to making their relationship so long-lasting: “There is no secret. The key is to want to be together ”, they said almost in unison. On other occasions they have released small details about the reason for their success as a couple. For example: “It’s not about what you do, it’s about how you do it.” Or also: “You have to forgive. Understand and have compassion for the other person, ”Hawn said. “If you can’t do that, you are not giving a real and fair chance to a long-term relationship. That is a lesson that we should all learn ”.

In any case, the actors have never married and they also say that it has affected them in some way. “I would have been divorced long ago if I had been married. If you have a sense of independence, enough money and you like your independence, there is something psychological about not being married because it gives you the freedom to make decisions one way or another, “Kurt Russell explained to Loose a couple of years ago And it was Goldie Hawn who finished off her partner’s sentence: “I chose to stay. Kurt chose to stay, and we like the choice. “

Kurt Russell made it clear when they collected their stars together on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame : “I owe you my wonderful life. To put it simple, I adore you. All the stars in the sky and the boulevard are not compared. There is no one with whom I want to be but it is with Goldie Hawn, “he publicly confessed to the actress surrounded by her children and grandchildren.

Before meeting Kurt, Goldie was married to actor and director Gus Trikonis (from 1969 to 1976) and to Bill Hudson (from the Hudson Brothers, from 1976 to 1980). With the latter he had two children: Oliver (1976) and Kate Hudson (1979), both actors. The marriage worked out worse than the career of the actress, who won an Oscar and a Golden Globe but felt alone and in charge of two young children. It was then that she returned to shoot with Kurt Russell and although she liked him, she was fearful of his fame as a conqueror. Everything changed when he saw how he behaved with his son Boston, the result of his marriage to actress Season Hubley. “I was moved as a father,” the actress has said on occasion.

Together they became parents to all of them and in 1986 they had their only son in common, Wyatt. And in part their children were the initial reason that they had never been married: “When we had been together for about 10 years, we asked our children what they would think if we got married. And his answer was blunt, they told us: ‘No.’ They loved the kind of relationship we had at the time, for them it was perfect and they didn’t want marriage to ruin everything, “explained the actress on the British television program Loose Women. The connection between all of them is such that it has even provoked virulent reactions from Oliver and Kate’s biological father, who felt directly signaled when the first wrote on his Twitter account on Father’s Day: Happy abandonment day! There was no response from his children to the statements against them in the Daily Mail for “calling another father”.

This family has decided to bet on the humor and good vibes they have achieved together and they continue like this now that the group has grown and has six grandchildren among them. For Goldie, the glamor of Hollywood stopped when her young son was born. “When I turned 40 I found myself doing the same things as when I was starting out. As I am an eminently realistic woman with the passage of time, I asked myself the big question: ‘where do I go now?’I took care of my mother until the last minute, then she died and I found out that I needed to do personal work for myself. I read, I traveled to India, I met the Dalai Lama because Buddhism is the philosophy and religion that I have chosen to follow. Turning 50 was a wonderful experience. I turned a page in my life, deciding to face and fulfill my dreams with greater courage than before because I don’t want to go to my deathbed wondering why I didn’t do certain things. And those things are being with Kurt and my children, which are, for me, the most important thing. (…) And I stayed home and it was a magnificent time, during which I negotiated with the part of life that is more difficult: reaching 50, which is when you ask yourself ‘what now, what?’ “, he said in an interview.

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