How Goldie Hawn Met Kurt Russell | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hi I'm Goldie Han and I feel really. excited about being Conan O'Brien's. friend well that's really nice that. makes me happy I'm going to tell you. something I've been such a huge fan of. yours for so long and all these years I. did the Late Night show you were one of. the few people I don't think you were on. the show it never lined up exactly so I. never got to meet you that way and then. when I came out to Los Angeles and I saw. you I was a little freaked out in a nice. way and your security team told me to.

stay away cuz they they had read the. letters and. uh but I think I saw you and Kurt at. something and I know it's not just me. because I would I want to say about two. years ago because we live in the same. neighborhood I'm running you know I'm. I'm I'm jogging because you don't just. get a body like mine um I was going to. say that means you can still see your. belly. button no I haven't seen that thing uh.

in years I'm not sure I even have one. but I'm running and I'm running with a. friend of mine who's out here and he he. runs with tons of people he's met. everybody I've never seen him get F this. my friend Jim lubinsky and we're running. and I hear someone say hey and I look. over and it's you and you're walking. with a friend you're not too far from. where we all live and you stop and you. chat with me a little bit and I. introduce my friend Jim and then we keep. running and he's like that was.

Goldie. on and I'm running and I'm out of breath. and I'm like yeah yeah no no she's it's. amazing yeah it's great we're running. for a bit and he's not saying anything. he goes I mean Jesus that was Cy Han and. I went yeah yeah yeah I mean he meets. everybody but it was so nice and I swear. to God we ran for like 45 minutes and he. kept revisiting it and I eventually I. was like I don't know what else to tell. you but yes she's a real person who. exists but uh I'm just AB absolutely.

thrilled and everyone here in the. building is on crazy behavior today. that's so great no it's really nice it's. nice to see they don't get that way. about a lot of people uh Erica Brown. downstairs was like Jan's coming in. today and I'm like okay well I'm here. too no doesn't care nobody cares I'm not. an icon but uh thrilled to have you here. thank you sweetheart appreciate and also. I have a thing uh that I when I don't. know people well but I know their kids I. can tell a lot about them.

by the way their kids behave and I know. Kate and Wyatt I know Kate pretty well. and I've gotten got to know Wyatt a. little bit and they're both lovely. people and to me I always go to that and. then say Oh that's there's some good. parenting in here they're very nice. people they're really nice people and. and and I've talked to them both and I. get the sense that you and. Kurt it was not hey we're in we're in. Beverly Hills or you know we're on the. west side and we're stars and you're the.

kids of St there was none of that. going on no none of it we just curtain. are very similar in terms of that. because you know whatever happens to. your career you just do the best you can. I mean it's it wasn't about wanting to. be anything except good at what we did. and we felt that it was our job right. and but when we came home from wherever. we were actually we're just a normal. family and I used to say to my dad you. know that was when I was more single but.

I had the two kids you know and we'd. have coffee together in in in my my. house in the morning he'd come over and. we'd sit there and I said Daddy um I. just want to I just want to have a. normal life and this was right at right. after Private Benjamin yeah and I just. want to be normal I I it's all I want. you know and he said well go you know. you're not normal I said wa this is a. good father not the answer I wanted okay.

my father told me that when I was four. he was right yeah hey we all. know like get you know get with it but. it's it's really about the focus and you. know when I I met Kurt for the first. time well we were you guys met for the. first time a long time earlier you. weren't you didn't go out or anything. you you met on a project well I mean you. know we're talking about what happens. what what is life how how what are the.

things we don't understand right which. is what I'm more interested in like what. we can't see the questions of kind of. things of why did that happen are there. coincidences um are we on this wild grid. somewhere that you know this is our Cara. this is our plan you know we don't know. and I've got a million of those things. that happened to me and one of them was. Kurt because I was 21 I was a dancer and. I went to an audition an open audition. at Disney Studios um to dance in a in a.

movie right and I thought oh this will. be so fun so I went there and there was. this woman sitting on a bench and she. was lovely what nice woman blonde and I. went up to her because I was on Dopey. drive but I didn't know where I was I. mean I I knew it was Dopey Drive I was. the Dopey because I didn't know where I. was going so now I asked her I said do. you know where the audition is you know. for this and it was like stage something.

yeah and she said I'll take you there so. she took me there and then of course we. did the audition and we're I'm. auditioning to be in the chorus. basically and uh so so with that um it. it turned out to be that she went back. home and she told everybody that. basically I saw the girl who's going to. get the. part the reason I know that is because. that was Kurt's mother. oh so I met Kurt Kurt's mother before I.

met Kurt right and so I got the part and. I'm trying to. think what part okay I got the part the. other weird thing is that I got this. part of course I got the script I looked. through it I had no lines I was just the. the head dancer right right but you know. what my my my name was M the giggly girl. I swear if anybody would have said that.

was what where I was GNA end up being. known for yeah I mean for me it was just. like weird and then at that particular. movie which is a Side. Story what's my motivation here as. giggly girl exactly what's my story and. my art so Kurt Kurt and I actually danc. together separately of the same uh show. which was like it was a number we had to. do and it was the horn PPE and the thing.

and skipped to my thing blah blah and we. both still remember part of the. choreography right but I didn't really. notice him except he was a handsome. young guy he was 16 okay and I'm 21 so. that's not never would I forget it but. then I went to the producer who asked me. to come to his after we finished he said. look we have to do the billing and he. said um you know we can't really use. your. name because Goldie sounds like a. stripper mhm and I said well Goldie is.

my name and not only that it belonged to. an amazing woman and I'm honored to have. it and I will never change it I was 21. years old talking to the head of like. the Disney and good for you though. impressive but you know I still can't. remember how bold I was right but anyway. I said if you want Bill me my middle. name is Jean so why don't you build me. as Goldie Jean H and that might you know. make you feel happier.

but I I will never and my mother's name. and anything ever change my name then I. met him again years ago year I mean. years later you guys meet again but. everything's changed many very different. circumstances yeah and I was with some. other guy that was the one thing we. weren't doing well but anyway you and. the other guy weren't doing well so. anyway I was producing oh I was. producing um swing shift mhm.

and swing shift you know is is a film. that I was producing for Warner Brothers. and I'm meeting all these guys I met. Kevin Cosner and few other guys that. that for the role of Lucky and uh then. Kurt came in and I looked at him and he. looked like he'd been up all night long. I mean he was also he may have. been knowing Kurt a little bit he may. have been and I looked at him I thought. what have you been well he was going. through through a divorce and he was.

with his dad and they were drinking and. whatever so I learned about that and. then um uh after that meeting was over. he didn't really want to read he just. came off silkwood and he didn't want to. read just wanted to meet me so we ended. up talking and everybody that I knew. ended up being one of our shared people. that we love one one was his. brother-in-law and another one was was. another guy Jimmy van white and they. were all in the movie okay it turns out.

that he then I met him at lunch and I. was very attracted to him I had another. like well he's French boyfriend um. and I like how everyone has very simple. you're giggly girl then there's french. boyfriend no one's got a real name in. any of your. stories there's that guy and it wasn't. going well with that guy.

anyway I just got into the chase um but. anyway so we went out to lunch at this. Wonder little restaurant in Fr in in um. actually uh on ventur Boulevard and we. sat together it was really great and he. and then when he left because I was. there with the producer and everything. he left but he turned around it was so. romantic he turned around and and said. across the. room it's O it's okay if I don't get. this part but I sure would like to see. you again oh oh wow.

wow and in front of everybody yeah wow. yeah well he's not shy no no but that. was very that was really interesting but. what really caught. me was that he came over to to my place. at the beach I had my two little. children there I had Oliver and Katie. Katie was about four mhm just going on. and Oliver was six. he went over to the bedroom where they.

were sleeping and he looked for a long. time at Katie. sleeping and then he went over and he. looked at at. Oliver long. time and I watched him and I. thought you're. amazing he is a family man M he in depth. looked at them stared at them felt.

them and then we went in the other room. and we. talked and then we went to. work and when my children visited me on. the. set I can't explain it but he was the. one for me yeah it wasn't just because. he was sexy and handsome and all those. things you get turned on by it was. because he matched my. devotion to children to be number number. one yeah and that's where I watched him.

at the bar cuz we were you know it was. our location and he was I had them in. his lap and talking to them and so forth. so the seduction was really his his. personality and his focus on the. children and you know I I wrote in my. diary when I actually was getting a. divorce and alone with the children.

I wrote in my diary and I was crying and. I wrote I wonder if I'll ever find. someone that will love my children the. way I. do and it. happened it happened so the stick and. glue of our of our relationship CU we. don't agree on everything his politics. are different than mine you know there's. all these things that could divide you. but the one thing that we have the.

greatest thing in God's world is our. family and that is where we Thrive it's. where we have incredible amounts of joy. and really focus on that and every child. that we had is healthy they're happy and. you know what I'm doing now with. children I want them to feel. happiness togetherness I just went over. to see my my daughter-in-law we just had.

a new grandchild oh congratulations. that's fantastic that's the eighth one. and it was great but I got they all. moved around us together so Wyatt moved. right on the street he was born on yeah. Katie lives on the same street now I. live up above not six blocks away Oliver. is down the road and and Boston who is. our my stepson who is very much I call. my son he's he's the greatest ever he. lives up the road. we so yet today I just was able to stop.

over to all to Wyatt's house and see the. my new grandchild and hold and do and be. and be together what can be better than. that making a movie yeah he's saying yes. I think a movie is better no did. I did I miss the point of what Goldie is. saying cuz you get money when you make. the movie oh boy I'm sorry but am I am I. the only one here who's saying make the. movie no get someone to get an agent can.

look after the kids exactly.