There are first dates, after which there’s Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell’s first date: a film premiere, dancing at The Playboy Membership, and breaking into Hawn’s new dwelling solely to be interrupted mid-coitus by the police. “It was a variety of enjoyable, I’ll let you know what,” Russell divulged throughout an look on Harry. “I can’t imagine it was a very long time in the past.”
How way back? Forty years, to be actual—and the couple remains to be going robust. Although they’ve by no means formally tied the knot, the 2 have caught by one another’s sides via thick and skinny: work, child-rearing, getting old, and rather more. “It’s not concerning the marriage,” Hawn informed Folks in 2020. “It’s concerning the folks and the connection, and the need to remain collectively. And that’s an enormous one as a result of if you would like it, you possibly can have it. You’ve received to present issues up, however the pleasure and the thrill of being collectively and touching the toes of anyone at night time is known as a good feeling.”
In different phrases, it appears each stars view love as a selection—and so they undoubtedly maintain selecting one another. For extra about considered one of the best Hollywood romances of all time, right here’s a timeline tracing Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell’s inspiring love story via the ages.
1966: Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell meet
Who would have thought it will be the live-action Disney film The One and Solely, Real, Authentic Household Band that may introduced these two powerhouses collectively? In 1966, Hawn’s star was nonetheless rising because of her position within the sketch comedy sequence Rowan & Martin’s Snigger-In, and Russell was transitioning from a toddler actor to extra grown-up roles.
Throughout their preliminary assembly, there wasn’t precisely a direct spark. “I used to be 21 and he was 16 and I assumed he was cute however he was a lot too younger,” Hawn informed the BBC Radio 4 program “Desert Island Discs” in 2012. “After which years later we met up once more and I appreciated him and I remembered that I appreciated him very a lot once I first met him. However we each mentioned we might by no means exit with one other actor, so it simply reveals you by no means can inform.”