“The Key to Kurt Russell Romance: Good Sex” | Entertainment

Joanna and Dean endlessly.

Goldie Hawn has a easy secret for why her four-decade relationship with Kurt Russell continues to be successful — “good sex.”

“Because sex is something that connects you and creates more belonging. People who have healthy sexual relationships usually last a lot longer. But it’s not just because of the act, it’s because of the warmth and the intimacy that it creates,” Hawn advised E! News at her Love-In Gala in celebration of the twentieth Anniversary of the Goldie Hawn Foundation and MindUP in LA on Sept. 27.

She additionally quipped: “You have to be nice to each other upon occasion.”

The couple have been collectively since 1983. They initially met on the 1968 set of “The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band,” however it could be years till they formally grew to become romantic.

They starred in 1984’s “Swing Shift” earlier than reuniting onscreen once more within the Garry Marshall-directed comedy “Overboard” in 1987.

“You know you’re not the same person,” the “Now and Then” star defined over the weekend. “You don’t think the same way oftentimes. And you have to accept that, but you have to measure are we having fun, or is this something we want to do? Do we have laughs together? Do we share certain things? You don’t have to share everything.”

The “First Wives” star continued, “We have a lot of expectation, I think, around relationships, but you have to like the person. That’s very important.”

Hawn, 78, and Russell, 73, have by no means married, however are mother and father of actor son Wyatt Russell, 38. Kurt additionally welcomed son Boston Russell with ex-wife Season Hubley and Hawn is the mother of actors Oliver and Kate Hudson, whom she had with musician Bill Hudson.

Kurt additionally spoke about their relationship whereas they attended the occasion on Friday.

“Most people that have been together for a long time, I think, share one thing in common,” the “Christmas Chronicles” actor advised E! News. “And that is that after that many years together, you will have experienced just about everything there is to experience together and understand all the ups and downs and what it means.”

“I just love the fact that we met and we’re still doing it. We still like being together.”

The couple have been vocal about not tying the knot over time. But they’ve gushed loads of occasions on how they first met.

“I was 21 and he was 16 and I thought he was adorable but he was much too young,” the actress advised Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4. “And then years later we met up again and I liked him and I remembered that I liked him very much when I first met him. But we both said we would never go out with another actor so it just shows you never can tell.”

Their first date ended up being an evening of dancing on the Playboy Club in Manhattan — however they determined the “night wasn’t over yet.”

“We eventually found our way upstairs, looking around at imaginary furniture and we were in the imaginary bedroom, now, and we are realistically having sex,” Kurt recalled throughout an look on “Harry” in 2017, “when the police walked in because we had to break into the place to get in.”

“That was our first date,” he went on. “It was a lot of fun, I’ll tell you what. I can’t believe it was a long time ago.”