Kurt Russell reveals why he and Goldie Hawn chose Colorado over LA

Kurt Russell has opened up about how spending more time at his beloved Colorado home has helped strengthen his relationship with Goldie Hawn – while revealing the couple may be moving to their mountain home full time.

The 75-year-old actor, who currently stars with Michelle Pfeiffer in Taylor Sheridan’s latest western series, “The Madison,” talked about his close ties to the Mountain State in a new interview with Fox News.

He explained that he and Hawn, 80, feel very happy when they spend time at their home in Old Snowmass – admitting that being in Colorado is made more enjoyable because his son, Wyatt, also now lives there with his wife, Meredith Hagner, and their children.

“What I enjoy the most is that [Hawn] really like it in Colorado. Wyatt and Meredith, and their two boys, live in Colorado now. So we like to spend as much time as possible,” he said.

While Russell and Hawn currently split their time between their multiple homes in California, Colorado, and New York, the actor noted that they intend to spend more time in Snowmass.

“I’d like to be there more, and there’s a different kind of life there. That’s basically it. I’d like to spend as much time as possible there,” he said.

Russell previously opened up about the couple’s love of the mountain landscape — and their love of real estate — in a Wall Street Journal interview, where he discussed how the couple balances their time between multiple states.

“Today, Goldie and I split our time between homes in LA, Palm Desert, CA, Old Snowmass, CO, and New York. We love real estate,” Russell revealed.

Despite owning homes across the country, the actor admitted that the couple’s log cabin in Colorado is a “favorite” spot in their portfolio, saying:

“Our old Snowmass home is my favorite,” explaining that his love for log homes began when he lived in the same place in Maine as a child.

“It’s a big, beautiful one-bedroom ranch that we moved into a little over 40 years ago,” he continued. “Goldie and I have a love for log homes. I never took that out of my schedule, starting with Maine.”

The actor revealed that lying in bed and staring at the mountains in his Colorado home is the best part of life in the mountains, sharing: “I love getting out of bed every morning and looking at the mountains outside.

“I like to go down to the barn, get on a horse and ride. I also like to separate the area in front of the fireplace in the living room.”

Speaking to the agency, Russell revealed that his connection to log cabins began as a child, when he lived in Rangeley, ME, which was hand-built by his grandfather in 1939.

After his father’s baseball career was cut short due to injury, Russell and his family moved to Florida before eventually settling in California, where his father pursued a career in acting.

“For two years, we lived in a family friend’s house in East Los Angeles. When my dad saved enough money to buy a house, we moved to Pacoima, in the San Fernando Valley,” Russell said.

At the age of 9, Russell followed in his father’s footsteps and picked up a baseball bat. A year later, the family moved home again.

“The next year, 1961, we moved into a four-bedroom, white-paneled house with green trim in Thousand Oaks,” Russell said.

The actor mentioned that seeing his father working hard encouraged him to start acting, appearing in front of the camera at the age of 10.

“At that time, my father was taking every acting job he could get, appearing on two different shows a week,” said Russell. “I started acting at the age of 10, when my father wanted to act in the show ‘Safe at Home!’ — joke with Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle of the Yankees. As he read his lines, he said, ‘You know, the star of this movie is a 10-year-old kid.’ That caught me.”

The actor added, “I auditioned but I didn’t get the part. It was a one-day job with one line, so I got my Screen Actors Guild card. The pay was $110.”

“I took my sister, Jill, to the local bike shop and she bought us two new Schwinn bikes.

After graduating from high school, Russell was injured and decided to put down his baseball bat and pursue acting.

His work quickly flourished, and soon after, he was introduced to Hawn.

“I first saw Goldie Hawn in 1967, on the set of ‘The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band.’ I was 15 years old. It was his first movie. She was a 21-year-old dancer. My first career turning point was playing Elvis in the 1979 TV movie ‘Elvis.’ I went from kicking him to being him,” he said.

Russell and Hawn reconnected in 1983 while working on “Swing Shift” and decided to give it a shot.

“At the time, we were both divorced and he had two young children—Oliver and Kate—and I had one, Boston.

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