Wyatt Russell Shares Advice Parents Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell Gave Him About Showbiz

Wyatt Russell learned some important lessons from his famous parents.

On Tuesday, April 22, PEOPLE spoke to the 38-year-old actor at the London premiere of his upcoming adventure film, Marvel’s Thunderbolts*, where he shared rules that mom Goldie Hawn, 79, and dad Kurt Russell, 74, gave him for success. 

“Be on time, don’t be an a—— and remember your lines,” Wyatt proudly told PEOPLE without hesitation. 

In addition to Wyatt, the Death Becomes Her actress and the Tombstone actor have a blended family and are parents to Oliver Hudson, 48, Kate Hudson, 46, and Boston Russell, 45.  

In 2023, Wyatt and his father got a chance to watch each other on set when they both starred in the Apple TV+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. The 10-episode miniseries followed the Godzilla universe most recently explored in 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong and 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

Kurt starred as Lee Shaw, while Wyatt played the same character for flashback scenes.

“We were being given this opportunity to play the same person, as opposed to the father and son, so we started hammering away at it and saying, ‘Let’s make this good!’ ” Kurt told Entertainment Tonight during a joint interview with Wyatt in November 2023.

The Thing actor called filming the series “a wonderful opportunity to get to work with Wyatt.”

Further discussing working together, the veteran actor added, “I suddenly found myself saying, ‘God, Wyatt’s going to create this character. I’m going to play him later on in life, so it’s all gotta make sense.’ And I suddenly realized, I’ve watched him all my life, but I’ve never examined him.”

He said the deep dive made him see parts of himself in his son. 

The opportunities to learn run deep in their family.

During a January 2024 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers with his father, Wyatt, who shares two children with wife Meredith Hagner, revealed how Kurt was embracing life as a grandfather with his then-2-year-old son, Buddy Prine.

“He’s awesome, ’cause he can do all of the hard sort of lessons that sometimes I don’t want to have to do,” Wyatt said of his dad.

“But luckily he doesn’t hide any of who he is to who my son is. So there was, like — we were going on a street when I was living in Vancouver shooting Monarch, and Buddy wants to test going on the street, and my dad goes, “No, no, no!”

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The toddler “lost it” when his grandfather reprimanded him.

“He was crying, and I’m like, ‘Well, I don’t know. It’s a good lesson,'” Wyatt laughed. 

“[He] comes back, I’m like, ‘What does Gogi [Kurt’s nickname] say?’ And Buddy goes, ‘No, no, no,’ and points at the street.”

“And I was like, ‘Yes! You got it. Thanks, Pop!'”

Thunderbolts*, which also stars Florence Pugh and David Harbour, arrives in theaters on May 2.