STACK Issue 151 May 2017

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Goldie Hawn, 71, tells STACK
she never expected to leave
show business for quite so long
after completing her last movie,
The Banger Sisters with Susan
Sarandon, in 2002.
And – 14 years later – you’d
have to be living beneath a rock to
be unaware of her much-heralded
return to the screen, starring as
Amy Schumer’s hippy mum in
road trip comedy Snatched .
“I was doing other things that
fascinated me, to tell you the
truth. I took a break, which was
something I hadn’t done in a long
time. It made sense to me that I
took a part of my life and made it
different,” reflects Hawn, whose
career spans more than half a
century; she's also the mother
of actors Kate Hudson, Olivier
Hudson and Wyatt Russell, and
has been in a relationship with
actor Kurt Russell since 1983.
A few months after
completing The Banger Sisters,
the Oscar-winner founded The
Hawn Foundation, a non-profit
PURE GOLDIE
After taking a 14-year break from the world of film, Goldie
Hawn returns in the mother-daughter comedy Snatched,
penned by her co-star Amy Schumer. Words Gill Pringle
educational group for children
examining different ways of
learning. At the same time she
began a spiritual quest, travelling
extensively around India and
meeting with Buddhist teachers.
Over the years she rejected
countless movie proposals,
although she believes she
“manifested” her role with
Schumer.
“When Amy came up to me, I
had already started to think: Am I
done? Should I go back? Is there
going to be something? Because
after you wait 14 years, you don’t
know,” muses the dancer-turned-
actress.
Hawn and Schumer’s
chemistry is clearly
genuine; bringing
their mother-
and-daughter
schtick to the
CinemaCon
stage in Las
Vegas last
month, they
explained
the premise of
Snatched: Schumer,
freshly dumped,
is forced to enlist her
mother on a South American
vacation she’s already paid for.
Schumer had already written
the script for Hawn to read, and
Hawn pretended she’d never
heard of the raunchy Trainwreck
comedienne. When Schumer
handed the on-stage storytelling
over to her co-star, the veteran
actress wouldn't play ball, going
completely off-topic and mushily
informing her: “You’re my girl,
you are my baby – you can’t come
back after 14 years and just do
anything.”
When Amy came up
to me, I had already
started to think: Am
I done? Should I go
back?
Snatched is in cinemas on May 11
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