Goldie Hawn has a long and storied Hollywood career spanning nearly 60 years.

And while the Overboard and Death Becomes Her legend, 80, hasn’t appeared in a major project since 2020’s The Christmas Chronicles 2 — she played Mrs. Claus opposite her longtime romantic partner Kurt Russell, 75 — she’s not opposed to acting again.

“It’s about the content,” she explains to PEOPLE. “It has to do with the content. Acting for acting’s sake, taking things… I’ve read a lot of shows, a lot of scripts that I didn’t like or I didn’t think I’d fit.”

“The one thing about acting is that I’ve done it, and I had a great career, and I honor that,” continues Hawn, who broke out on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In in the 1960s before she went on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the 1969 farce Cactus Flower.

Her other major projects through the years include 1975’s Shampoo, 1980’s Private Benjamin, which earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination, 1996’s The First Wives Club, among many others.

Adds Hawn, “I would love to get a material that could actually be like, ‘Oh my God, I want this so bad. This is so funny. She’s so crazy. She’s so interesting.’ But I haven’t come across it.”

“If somebody came up with a really cool, funny script . . . I think it would be great,” says Hawn, who has four adult children and eight grandchildren in the blended family she shares with Russell, her love of 43 years.

That script may come from her Oscar-nominated daughter Kate Hudson, 46, who recently floated the idea of writing something for them.

Reminded of that, Hawn — who appeared in a 2024 Super Bowl commercial — seems enthusiastic. “I would love that. And the two of us have thought a lot about it,” she says.

In fact, making it a full family affair (sons Oliver Hudson, 49, and Wyatt Russell, 39 are also actors, while son Boston Russell, 46, is a psychotherapist) is “lots of fun” to think about.

“We’re never going to do it, but it’s such a great idea because we have so much talent,” she continues, before correcting herself: “Never say never, because that could happen at any time.”

But if a Hawn-Hudson-Russell project doesn’t pan out, she’ll probably be fine with that too.

“I think ultimately every life has to have its sections,” says Hawn. “Doing the same thing over and over again for your whole life is not as interesting to me. And I decided at probably 55 or something. …‘What are you going to do for this next part of your life?’ And I knew that there was more out there to learn and to do.”

Indeed, in the last few years, Hawn has focused on her family as well as MindUP, the mental health program she founded more than two decades ago. Implemented in schools in the U.S. and abroad, it teaches youngsters about their brains and how to regulate their emotions.

Her latest project stems from that. She is releasing her first children’s book, The After-School Kindness Crew: Pooch on the Loose #1 on May 5, with three more to follow. Co-written with New York Times bestselling author Lin Oliver, the book incorporates the principles of MindUP wrapped in a fun and funny story.

“It’s really, really satisfying to be able to take MindUP, which is a school program and now putting it into children’s books and giving them sort of this experiential, funny option,” says Hawn. “And the books, of course, must be funny. I mean, that’s [the] bottom line, we have to have fun.”

Source: People.com