Goldie Hawn has addressed her years-long acting break, admitting she has yet to receive a script she finds truly interesting.
The First Wives Club actor and mom of fellow acting icon Kate Hudson has not acted on screen since 2020’s The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two, in which she co-starred opposite her longtime partner Kurt Russell.
However, 80-year-old Hawn, whose career has spanned more than 60 years, is not opposed to returning.
“It has to do with the content,” she told People. “Acting for acting’s sake, taking things... I’ve read a lot of shows, a lot of scripts that I didn’t like or I didn’t think I’d fit.”
Still, she’s not waiting around with bated breath. “The one thing about acting is that I’ve done it, and I had a great career, and I honor that,” the Oscar-winning Cactus Flower star added.
“I would love to get a material that could actually be like, ‘Oh my God, I want this so bad. This is so funny. She’s so crazy. She’s so interesting.’ But I haven’t come across it,” Hawn said. “If somebody came up with a really cool, funny script... I think it would be great.”
Despite her prolific career, starring in classic films such as Private Benjamin (1980), Overboard (1987), and Death Becomes Her (1992), Hawn has yet to work alongside her daughter, Hudson, 47.
Speaking to Variety last November, Hudson said she would love to work with her mom, but “it has to be the right project.”
“Nothing so far has felt right,” the Oscar-nominated Song Sung Blue star explained. “People have tried, but the material hasn’t fit. I’d love something in the spirit of Postcards From the Edge, but that kind of role hasn’t been presented to us. We’d probably have to create it ourselves.”
Hawn shares Hudson with her ex-husband, Bill, with whom she also shares a son, Rules of Engagement alum Oliver Hudson, 49. She shares her youngest, Thunderbolts* actor Wyatt Russell, 39, with Russell, whom she’s been with for over 40 years.
Earlier this month, Russell opened up about his decades-long relationship with Hawn, likening their deep connection to The Madison, the new Western drama series from Taylor Sheridan, in which he stars opposite Michelle Pfeiffer.
Russell plays father and husband Preston Clyburn, who dies in the first episode and leaves his longtime wife (Pfeiffer) to pick up the pieces of their relationship in her grief.
“I had a hard time getting through the scripts,” Russell, 75, said to The National about the Paramount+ show. “They just kept hitting me really hard, and I felt that that was a big part of this show’s potential, ability to grab an audience. Its writing was so authentic.”
He continued: “It was so powerful for it to have a serious, true love relationship with someone, and then for one of those people to go, and for the other to realize they didn’t know how good it was — that they didn’t know there was so much more to it, and they’re not going to let that go.”
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