{"id":2439748,"date":"2026-06-01T03:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2439748"},"modified":"2026-06-01T03:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:51:06","slug":"kurt-russell-says-people-warned-him-leaving-la-was-goodbye-to-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kurt-russell-says-people-warned-him-leaving-la-was-goodbye-to-his-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Russell says people warned him leaving LA was &#8216;goodbye&#8217; to his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F05%2F129350150.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/24\/real-estate\/kurt-russell-reveals-why-he-and-goldie-hawn-prefer-colorado-to-la\/\">Kurt Russell <\/a>wasn\u2019t looking for an escape, but found home in the mountains after leaving\u00a0Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Russell, 75, admitted that his ranch life<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/22\/real-estate\/the-madison-is-making-new-yorkers-want-to-pack-up-and-move-to-montana\/\">\u00a0in Colorado\u00a0<\/a>allows him to do \u201cthe things that I want to do on a day-to-day basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I want to look at, what I want to be a part of \u2014 all the things that Colorado has to offer,\u201d he told\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kurt-russell-recalls-leaving-la-for-colorado-with-goldie-hawn-exclusive-11987544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">People magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to eventually get into the ranching life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWhen\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/18\/entertainment\/goldie-hawn-reveals-why-she-is-so-deeply-proud-of-daughter-kate-hudson\/\">Goldie and I got together,<\/a> a couple of years later, we both built a ranch there together, where our family has grown up. That was 40 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTombstone\u201d star noted that his decision to leave Hollywood at the time wasn\u2019t a popular option within the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t escaping. I was just living where I live,\u201d he said. \u201cI was fortunate that it really didn\u2019t make any difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when I did it, nobody else was doing that. I had many people tell me, \u2018Well, that\u2019s goodbye. That\u2019s it.\u2019 I said, \u2018Well, we\u2019ll see.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s witnessed the exodus out of the City of Angels in the years since he chose a more relaxed lifestyle in Colorado with his family.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cThe Madison\u201d star Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn built a ranch in Colorado. <span class=\"credit\">FOX News<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t dislike L.A.,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just not my preference in terms of how I like to live my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to understand something about the area of Old Snowmass. Everybody who lives there, they live there because they want to. I can\u2019t say that about L.A.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russell said that life in Colorado<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/04\/entertainment\/kurt-russell-goldie-hawns-blunt-warning-to-daughter-kate-hudson-about-surviving-hollywood-fame\/\"> for his children<\/a> is \u201cvery different from living in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey grew up with a good dose of what\u00a0nature can offer,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are difficulties to it, but there are also great rewards to it. I\u2019m just more comfortable there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He compared the quiet country life to how he \u201cgrew up in Maine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suppose, once you\u2019re exposed to that kind of thing, it\u2019s always home,\u201d Russell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything we did there in terms of what we built and what we have in terms of being able to offer in life for our children, I\u2019m really, really happy that we were able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/16\/entertainment\/michelle-pfeiffer-kurt-russell-make-debut-in-yellowstone-spinoff-the-madison-with-first-photos\/\">\u201cThe Madison\u201d star\u00a0<\/a>previously told Fox News Digital that it\u2019s the people who make his life most fun, even outside of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>His partner, Goldie Hawn, 80, revealed their LA home was robbed twice, solidifying their mountain choice. <span class=\"credit\">BrosNYC \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hawn has two children,\u00a0Oliver and Kate Hudson, from her previous marriage to Bill Hudson. Russell has a son, Boston, from his marriage to Season Hubley. The couple has one biological son together, Wyatt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I enjoy most is that [Hawn] really likes it in Colorado,\u201d Russell said. \u201cWyatt and Meredith and their two boys, they live in Colorado now. So we like to spend as much time there as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawn, 80, may have revealed more into why the couple chooses the mountains over the city after admitting their\u00a0LA home was robbed once.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if we couldn\u2019t live in LA, where would we live? We both decided, I think it\u2019s Palm Desert \u2026 It\u2019s so safe,\u201d Hawn reminisced about her dream location to plant new roots while appearing on the SiriusXM podcast\u00a0\u201cLet\u2019s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just \u2019cause\u00a0L.A. is terrible.\u00a0I mean, we were robbed once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Academy Award-winning actress\u00a0explained that she and Russell were \u201cgone two hours and 20 minutes\u201d before returning home to a seemingly normal situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came back and went in the house. I went up to the stairs and I walked into my closet. I just lost it,\u201d Hawn said. \u201cThey had broken in from the balcony to our bedroom, our closets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawn added, \u201cAnd they completely knocked down my door, which is a safe door, so they\u2019re very, very sophisticated, and they got a lot of my goodies, if you know what I mean.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The \u201cTombstone\u201d star said leaving Hollywood for Colorado was unpopular then, but now sees an \u201cexodus\u201d from LA. <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four months later, Hawn was alone at home with just her dog when she heard a startling noise in another room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hear this big thump upstairs \u2014 and I was alone; Kurt wasn\u2019t there \u2014 and I went, \u2018What the hell was that?&#8217;\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just like, was that a sonic boom? Did somebody jump somewhere? And as it turned out, the next day, we discovered that they were trying to get in my bedroom while I was in the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Russell wasn\u2019t looking for an escape, but found home in the mountains after leaving\u00a0Los Angeles. Russell, 75, admitted that his ranch life\u00a0in Colorado\u00a0allows him to do \u201cthe things that I want to do on a day-to-day basis.\u201d \u201cWhat I want to look at, what I want to be a part of \u2014 all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2439749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[23803,21741,318979,345322,22693],"class_list":["post-2439748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-colorado","tag-entertainment","tag-goldie-hawn","tag-kurt-russell","tag-los-angeles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kurt-Russell-says-people-warned-him-leaving-LA-was-goodbye.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439750,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439748\/revisions\/2439750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}