Goldie Hawn on first time she met partner Kurt Russell: ‘He was adorable but too young’
Goldie Hawn, 76, and her partner Kurt Russell, 70, have been together for almost 40 years but when they first met, their age gap put her off. Their paths first crossed on-set of the 1968 film The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, when she was 21 and he was just 16.
I thought he was adorable but he was much too young!
Goldie Hawn
“I thought he was adorable but he was much too young!” she recalled in an interview with Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in 2012.
She admitted that despite being attracted to one another, the five years between them at that age was enough not to pursue it.
But good things happen to those who wait, and years later romance finally blossomed between the pair after they were cast together in the 1983 film Swing Shift.
“Years later we met up again and I liked him and I remembered that I liked him very much when I first met him,” she smiled.
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“But we both said we would never go out with another actor so it just shows you never can tell.”
They made things official on Valentine’s Day in 1983 but never tied the knot.
The couple now share 26-year-old son Wyatt, together, with Goldie also sharing two other children Kate and Oliver, from her marriage to Bill Hudson.
Despite never marrying, she revealed the secret behind her four-decade-long relationship to Kurt.
“We’ve been together for 29 years now and I think if two people want to make it work, you make it work but if one doesn’t, then you’re sunk,” she explained at the time.
