BeatBoxBetty Interviews GOLDIE HAWN about THE BANGER SISTERS!

Hold onto your assumptions middle America... Goldie Hawn's back on the big screen. And this time, she's taking names! Riding shotgun alongside fellow fierce thespian, Susan Sarandon, our favorite golden gal returns in The Banger Sisters - a comedy that reunites two long lost friends who were once rock groupies.

Betty caught up with Goldie Hawn recently and here's what she had to say about her new film, her secrets on looking great and the what the world needs now. Read on!

Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon star in The Banger Sisters
Courtesy of Fox Searchlight

BETTY: Your character is pretty far out and gutsy in many respects. Did you have any reservations playing her?
GOLDIE: First I thought, 'Can I do this?' This was a real fun thing for me to approach... which was language. And we did take some of the language out because some of it was really not good. But we didn't modify her character at all. We kept her tough. And real. And free-flowing...

So anyway, I was thrilled when I got this role. I thought it was an amazing opportunity to do stuff I've never done. And to kind of be more grown up. Because a lot of my roles have been about trying to be younger...

BETTY: But as far as seeing a mature woman on screen jump a guy (played by Geoffrey Rush) - - you just don't see that in movies. Most of the time some young thang is arm candy for an older man - but never, ever, do you see a woman over 40, let alone 50 want some hot steamy sex!
GOLDIE: Right! And by the way, in terms of that [sex]...I think any of us at any age are really not aware of age. Whether we mount our husbands or our boyfriends or however we experience our sexuality - we don't approach them through age. We approach them through pheromones and chemistry and our sexual energy. Therefore those kinds of feelings happen at any age. So that character was sort of an ageless ball of energy and yet, she's older. It was great to bring that to life!

BETTY: It is so wonderful to see you and Susan really get to show off that sexual energy that so many women in our country repress. But what about the rest of Hollywood? What's the dealio?
GOLDIE: It's a young business. The advertising world is young. The people who buy tickets are young. Older people don't go out to movies as much as young people do. There are a lot of real reasons for this. We can all sit and cry in our soup and feel sorry for ourselves, letting our egos take over...but if you look at this as a business you realize that if you're going to make a movie for your demographic - just make it for less money. You can't not feed the people what they need and you can't deprive older people.

Actually, I think this film will have a cross-over audience, because it makes you feel good. So as far as where Hollywood is on the whole thing - I don't think it's ever been any different and I think it's because it's driven by money. Personally I think it's wrong. I think women are sexy as they get older and the more we see it in the media, then the more identification will come of it and young girls won't be so afraid of getting old. But Rome wasn't built in a day - and hopefully we won't blow up the world before we get a chance to find out how we can evolve into a higher species!

BETTY: Can you talk about working with Susan Sarandon?
GOLDIE: Susan's great. She was very easy to work with and extremely tenacious, which I love because I can't stand people who say things and don't follow through. She's got a very good sense of story. And Geoffrey Rush was so great... God, I felt like I was working with Peter Sellers again. He is sooo gifted. Except for the time he he put a banana done his pants in one of our scenes! Everyone was so fun to work with. And no one was a complainer. We had 8 weeks to do this with a very small budget and everybody hung in there and did it - with no complaining. That's the way I like to make movies.

BETTY: In this film your character has a tattoo that symbolizes Jim Morrison... did you personally ever see The Doors perform live?
GOLDIE: No I never did. I wish I had because I do love him.

BETTY: I think the teens today will understand the admiration of your character.
GOLDIE: I really think it's a great symbol for our youth. I mean, I'm sure that Angelina Jolie looks back at hers and thinks it was a symbol of her youth. But in terms of the things that we do because we fall in love - those things are there to remind us of the good and the bad. We do fall in love when we're young and we idolize images, thoughts and ideas instead of real things.

Susan Sarandon and Goldie yuck it up on the set of The Banger Sisters

BETTY: You haven't changed in 30 years. Is it genetics? Good clean living? How do you do it?
GOLDIE: I think it is genetics. My father looked very young. But I also think it's good clean living... exercise, not much drinking, sleep, not burning your candle at both ends, knowing when you're tired, knowing how to love, knowing how to recede love, knowing how to surrender... these things help...but I pretty much don't get angry. I don't feel that frustration. I am human, but for the most part, I don't remember the last time I felt anger. That will age you faster than anything.

BETTY: When you say sleep...do you have to have a certain number of hours?
GOLDIE: I'm a seven to seven and a half hour person. And if I get eight, then I'm happy. But last night I couldn't sleep very much. I don't know, but my mind was just wide awake. I laid there and my body was calm and motionless but my brain was...

BETTY: Now, I'm no psychic or anything but it was a Pieces moon yesterday. And if you were trying to get anything done there were delays and more delays.
GOLDIE: Really? I want to tell you something. Yesterday...

BETTY: It was a hell of day?
GOLDIE: It was a hell of a day! I mean uncharacteristically one hell of a day. I felt rushed and impatient. And that's not my character. The sun is also going crazy right now with the sun bursts - and politically too.

BETTY: Are you a political person?
GOLDIE: No. I don't think I am. I am very concerned about the world but much more on a spiritual level. Politics are like movie stars - they come and they go. And some last - some don't. It's the overall holistic look at the Earth and where ultimately we're going in terms of the mass consciousness - that is what I'm most concerned with and worried about.

BETTY: Are you aware that we really can't protest the way we could in the 60s?
GOLDIE: How about that. I went to American University and this woman said, 'Where are all your voices? Where are the voices of the universities? What happened to the days when we would stand up and protest these things?' And it really brought tears to my eyes because we don't anymore. We can't. We've been repressed into apathy. Because if you do, you're not American. Whoa! It's some heavy stuff.