Goldie Hawn responded to Meryl Streep’s claim that they had “beef” because Hawn was always late to the “Death Becomes Her” set.
“I think I’m 15 minutes late to everything. … I mean, honestly, it’s unbelievable,” Hawn, 80, admitted to Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday.
The “First Wives Club” actress said she and Streep, 76, “got through that” to become “such great friends for so long.”
“But it is our joke,” Hawn continued. “She said I was too late on the set. Maybe she’s too early. I don’t know.”
Hawn added, “Sometimes when you’re too early, you’re still waiting for somebody and you think, ‘Oh, god, where the hell is she?'”
Streep made the charge against Hawn’s tardiness during a recent interview with Vanity Fair.
“Goldie, she was always late to set,” Streep recalled. “And I’m always on time, you know, and annoying.”
Streep said Hawn would “drive herself” to the set of their 1992 movie in a red convertible, which is why she was always late.
“She had her hair all … ‘Oh gosh, sorry!’” Streep remembered. “And everybody thought, ‘Oh, she’s so cute.’ Yeah. So I had a beef with her.”
But Streep clarified that Hawn is “one of her buddies” and called their time together on set “silly and fabulous.”
“We just laughed,” the “Devil Wears Prada 2” actress shared. “We just had a lot of fun. And she’s the best laugher in America, really. She laughs like, ‘Ahahaha!’ And then they have to stop shooting. But that part was fun.”
“Death Becomes Her” follows a violent feud between actress Madeline (Streep) and her former friend Helen (Hawn) as they fight over a plastic surgeon (Bruce Willis).
The cult classic was a huge success, earning nearly $150 million at the worldwide box office, and later became a Broadway musical comedy in 2024.
Over a decade after the film’s release, Hawn honored Streep when she received the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award in 2004.
In her speech, Hawn shouted out Streep for always being her “whole uncompromised authentic self.”
“I love you baby,” Hawn added. “Way to go!”
