1966: Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell meet for the first time. She was 21, he was 16 — and while the actress thought he was too young to date at the time, she remembered him making a strong first impression. "I thought he was adorable but he was much too young," the actress said in 2012.
In a break-up bombshell that has all of Hollywood talking, it's emerged that the pair have been living separate lives for months after being torn apart by years of raging jealousy, secret affair scandals and non-stop fights.
Kurt Russell welcomed his first child, son Boston Russell, with his with ex-wife, Season Hubley. The former couple met when they played Elvis and Priscilla Presley in in the 1979 movie "Elvis," and divorced in 1983.
Were Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn together during Overboard?
Hawn, 74, and Russell, 69, met in 1966 and started dating in 1983 before starring in the hit 1987 romantic-comedy, Overboard, together. As Hawn recalled, the TV was originally on just to give the couple some ambient lighting while winding down, but their plans changed when they saw what was onscreen.
Costume designer Wayne Finkelman made the script's concepts a reality. Goldie Hawn looks fab in a high-cut thong bathing suit. Just a year earlier, the 41-year old gave birth to Wyatt Russell, her baby with Kurt Russell. Overboard was a family affair – Hawn and Russell's children were with them during filming.
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell's own young kids were always with them while making the film. Their youngest, Wyatt Russell, took his first steps on the set. The rocking motion of the yacht kept causing members of the crew to fall asleep while shooting.
What does Goldie Hawn call Kurt Russell in Overboard?
Hawn stars in Overboard as a querulous heiress who hires Dean (Russell) to install shelves in her yacht. She refers to him as not being “housebroken”; she refuses to pay him $600 for his craftsmanship; and to taunt him further, she prances around in a one-piece thong bathing suit—a costume written into the script.
"Because we have been married and because when it doesn't work out it ends up to be a big business. Somebody has to own something. It's always ugly," said Hawn, who had two marriages before entering her relationship with Russell, who was married once prior.
How long were Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson married?
"It's always ugly," said Goldie, who was married to Gus Trikonis from 1969 to 1976 and to Bill Hudson from 1976 to 1982. "How many divorces are fun? How many divorces actually don't cost money?
Her parents divorced when she was 18 months old and she and her older brother, actor Oliver Hudson, were raised in Snowmass, Colorado, and Pacific Palisades, California by her mother and her mother's longtime boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell.
Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell and grandfather of ex–major league baseball player Matt Franco and actor Wyatt Russell.
It's no secret that Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson have a close mother-daughter relationship and that bond extends beyond their personal lives. Hudson is proud of what her mom has accomplished in Hollywood, especially during an era that wasn't so easy for women.
Bill accuses his ex-wife, Goldie Hawn, of "poisoning" their two children together against him. He also says he tried multiple times to remain in Oliver and Kate's lives growing up.
Goldie and Russell originally met while filming Disney's 1968 live-action movie musical The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band. She was 21, he was 16 — and while the actress thought he was too young to date at the time, she remembered him making a strong first impression.
Hudson also gushed about Russell in an Instagram post last Father's Day, sharing a throwback photo of a loving moment they shared. “Fun, adventurous, passionate, determined, honest, devoted, amazing father and the best head of hair in Los Angeles!” she wrote in the caption.
When Hawn recalled being compared to the Pillsbury Doughboy, it made her think of other odd compliments she has received. Particularly one from the King himself. “You know when I think about that, Elvis called me a chicken that had just been hatched,” she said.
Now, nearly 40 years later, the Snatched actress and The Hateful Eight star are still going strong and they continue to declare their love and appreciation for each other. "No, we never got married but one thing that continues to grow is our love," Hawn wrote in a birthday tribute to Russell on Instagram in 2021.
