Steven Spielberg reunited with several of his former stars at the London premiere of his new thriller Disclosure Day, including Goldie Hawn, more than five decades after they first collaborated.
Goldie Hawn Attends Premiere to Support Her Son
On Thursday, 4 June, Hawn, 80, was present at the event, which also featured Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, and Colman Domingo. The film stars Wyatt Russell, Hawn’s son with Kurt Russell, and the proud mother watched as Spielberg introduced him at the start of the screening.
Spielberg, 79, informed the audience of Hawn’s presence, noting their long friendship since working together on the 1974 crime drama The Sugarland Express. That film, about a married couple who take a police officer hostage, marked Spielberg’s first theatrical release after his TV movie Duel (1971). Hiring Hawn was a significant achievement, as she had recently won an Oscar for Cactus Flower (1969).
Other Stars in Attendance
Other notable attendees included Jeff Goldblum, who starred in Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lost World (1997); Mark Rylance, whom Spielberg directed to an Oscar win in Bridge of Spies (2015); Benedict Cumberbatch, star of War Horse (2011); Tye Sheridan from Ready Player One; and JJ Abrams, whose 2011 film Super 8 Spielberg produced.
About 'Disclosure Day'
Disclosure Day follows a television meteorologist (Blunt) who attempts to uncover the truth behind an alien conspiracy hidden by the government. The official logline teases: “If you found out you weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to... Disclosure Day.”
The film is Spielberg’s latest foray into the alien genre, following Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), War of the Worlds (2005), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). At the UK premiere, Spielberg expressed his belief that extraterrestrial life will be discovered in our lifetime. “My view has become more realistic,” he told the BBC. “There’s a lot of mystery and things that are undisclosed, but I’ve become more optimistic that people are going to be able to discover things that we have not been allowed to discover.”
Disclosure Day is set for release on 12 June.
