Jania Ashlynn
The actress sat down with Variety and talked about some of the craziest things that she has experienced in her star-studded Hollywood life. She mentioned being called a ‘dumb blonde’ by a reporter during the peak of the women’s liberation movement in the ‘70s.
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She also mentioned that she wished she attended the Oscars in 1970 where she won an award for her role in Cactus Flower. Goldie talked about her rocky relationship with shamed producer Harvey Weinstein.
All of the Stars
She talked about her success in the 1960s comedy show Laugh-In. This grew into a career spanning over several decades in films like The Sugarland Express, Private Benjamin, The First Wives Clubs. She started talking about the Academy Awards and how they haven’t necessarily changed for the better.
“It used to be elegant,” she shared. “I’m not old-fashioned, but sometimes jokes are off-color. And I’m missing reverence. Things have become politicized. I want to see people in awe. I want to see people believing again. I want to see people laughing more in a way that isn’t just at someone else’s expense.”
“I never got dressed up. I never got to pick up the award,” she continued. “I regret it. It’s something that I look back on now and think, ‘It would have been so great to be able to have done that.’”
Announcements
Hawn talked about how she didn’t even believe that she’d win.
“I forgot it was on television that night,” she shared. “I woke up to a phone call at like 4 in the morning. And it was a man’s voice and he said, ‘Hey, congratulations, you got it.’ ‘I got what?’ ‘You got the Academy Award for best supporting actress.’”
Jimmy asked her, “‘Did you ever see the part where you’re being announced by Fred Astaire?’ And I said, ‘Fred Astaire?!’ He’s my idol. And I didn’t know he was the one that announced my name. I got emotional when I finally saw it.”
It’s been a beautiful, wild life for the actress and according to her, she’s just getting started.
