Kurt Russell was a guest on Harry Connick Jr’s talkshow when he told a hitherto unknown (to the public anyway) story about his first date with Goldie Hawn. The first time Kurt and Goldie went out was when they were working on the movie Swing Shift together 33 years ago. That movie came out in mid April, 1984 and at first I thought Kurt said their date was after the premiere, but it seems to have been sometime when they were working together. Kurt and Goldie were costars and romantic interests in that movie. (You can see the trailer here, Goldie plays a Rosie The Riveter type in WWII. I remember seeing it on HBO a few times back in the day and loving it!) Apparently Goldie really wanted to go swing dancing that night and Kurt suggested the Playboy club, as he knew they had that kind of music there. That didn’t pan out so they ended up breaking into a home which Goldie was renovating, where her daughter Kate Hudson incidentally lives now, it was Kate’s childhood home. Kurt and Goldie were getting busy in what would be the bedroom when a cop busted in with a flashlight and told them to go to a hotel. They did and the rest is history!

Harry: Do you remember the first date you went on with Goldie?
Kurt: Oh very much so. I wasn’t thinking about anything. We were going to World War 2 Movie, Swing Shift and I was the guy who played the trumpet and I said you know if we have to dance in this you’re a professional dancer you know how to dance but I just need to figure something out. She said, ‘We should go somewhere and dance to that type of swing music.’ I said I’ll find that The playboy club was the only place that had that. So we went to The Playboy Club and I just immediately was having a great time with Goldie, we left and we both agreed night wasn’t over yet. And there was no place to dance, we never got around to that…. Next thing she was renovating this house that Kate now owns. The house that Kate grew up in she now owns. We eventually found our way upstairs looking at imaginary furniture and we were in the imaginary bedroom now and we are realistically having sex when the police walked in. We had to break into the place to get in so the next thing I see is a flashlight and Goldie and I are like what? It was bizarre and weird. We were told to go get a hotel room which we did. That was our first date. It was a lot of fun I can’t believe it was a long time ago.

[From The Harry show received via e-mail]

Ok so technically this was their first date but they played love interests in a movie they were likely filming for a while, the tension must have been building. It’s possible they knew each other weeks or months before they hooked up that night, not that there’s anything wrong with it if it was the first day they met. Also kudos to Kurt for sitting on this story for 33 years. (If it’s been out before now I’ve never heard of it and it’s not easily googled.) I hope he got permission from Goldie before sharing it, but if not I doubt she cares.

Here’s the video:

Kurt is starring at Starlord’s dad in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, which is out next week and is likely to break all the records. Here are some photos from the premiere. They’re so cute together!

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