Goldie Hawn has no plans to rush back in front of the camera, and she’s been remarkably clear about why.
The 80-year-old spoke PEOPLE in an interview published on April 29, where she explains that after a career full of beloved performances, she simply hasn’t found anything worthy of bringing her back.
“It’s about the content,” she said.
“Acting for the sake of acting, 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. The one thing about acting is that I’ve done it and I had a great career and I honor that.”
Hawn last appeared on screen in The Christmas Chronicles 2 in 2020 with his longtime partner Kurt Russell.
The decision to step down began long before that, but she traced it to the mid-fifties.
“I think at the end of the day, every life has to have its sections. Doing the same thing over and over again for your whole life is not that interesting to me. And I decided, probably at 55 or something, ‘What do you want to do for this next part of your life?’ And I knew there was more out there to learn and do.”
The right script could change everything.
“I would love to get material that could actually be like, ‘Oh my God, I want this so bad. This is so fun. She’s so crazy. She’s so interesting.’ But I haven’t come across it.”
She also pursued the idea of a project with her famously talented family, children Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson and Wyatt Russell, with characteristic openness.
“It’s such a great idea because we have so much talent. Never say never because it could happen at any time.”
Hawn and Russell are also geographically withdrawn from Hollywood and spend much of their time at their home in Colorado.
Russell has described waking up every morning looking at the mountain, riding horses and sitting by the fireplace in the living room as the rhythm of their lives there, far from the pace of the film industry they both helped define.
