Goldie Hawn says she was ‘irate’ over initial ‘First Wives Club’ script: ‘It was very male bashing’

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“The First Wives Club” rewritten after being extremely dissatisfied with the initial script for the 1996 comedy film.“I fought for every single thing I could because what happened with ‘First Wives Club,’ we all turned it down because it was very male bashing and didn’t want to do it,” Hawn, 78, said on the June 19 episode of Kelly Ripa’s podcast. “I didn’t wanna do it and then suddenly, the girls said, ‘Okay, Goldie, you talk.

You do it,’ ” she added.Hawn, who co-starred with Bette Midler and Diane Keaton in the film, about a trio of jilted women seeking revenge on their ex-spouses, said that she “became the voice” of the project.“One time they came to my apartment in New York and met with me, and it was a writer who was gonna sweeten it and make it better and all that,” she recalled. “I don’t know how many notes I gave him, and I was doing ‘Everyone Says I Love You’ at that point, so it was like, ‘Oh, I have a day off.

Okay, now I gotta spend it doing this. Okay, fine.’ “Hawn continued: “We went and did the reading, but I didn’t show it to anybody until that day, and we went and did the reading around the table.

There was a few laughs and that was it. And I became so irate and I went over, and I said, ‘I spent a whole half a day with you and I gave you a million notes and not one of them was implemented.'”The “Foul Play” star said she worked with her producer to rewrite the script for “The First Wives Club,” and after they were done, the writers “thanked” her for what she did.