Goldie Hawn Explains 4-Year Screen Absence

Goldie Hawn, the 80-year-old Oscar-winning actress, has explained her four-year absence from the screen by saying she has not found scripts worthy of her return, though she remains open to the right project.

In a recent interview with People magazine, Hawn addressed her lack of starring roles since 2020's The Christmas Chronicles 2, in which she played Mrs. Claus opposite her longtime partner Kurt Russell. "It's about the content," she said. "It has to do with the content. Acting for acting's sake, 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."

Hawn, whose career spans more than six decades, emphasized her satisfaction with past achievements. "The one thing about acting is that I've done it, and I had a great career, and I honor that," she said. She expressed enthusiasm for a compelling role, adding, "I would love to get a material that could actually be like, 'Oh my God, I want this so bad. This is so funny. She's so crazy. She's so interesting.' But I haven't come across it." A "really cool, funny script," she noted, could change that.

The actress, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for 1969's Cactus Flower and...