Goldie Hawn changed the script for “The Wives Club” because it contained “misogyny.”

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Goldie Hawn revealed that she was instrumental in rewriting The Wives Club after she was extremely dissatisfied with the original script of the 1996 comedy.

“I fought for everything I could because after what happened with ‘First Wives Club,’ we all turned it down because it was very misogynistic and we didn’t want to do it,” Hawn, 78, said on the June 19 episode of Kelly Ripa’s podcast.

“I didn’t want to do it, and then suddenly the girls said, ‘Okay, Goldie, you talk. You do it,'” she added.

Hawn, who starred alongside Bette Midler and Diane Keaton in the film about three jilted women seeking revenge on their ex-husbands, said she had become “the voice” of the project.

“One time they came to New York and met with me. It was a writer who wanted to embellish it and improve it and so on,” she recalled. “I don’t know how many notes I gave him. At the time I was working on ‘Everyone Says I Love You,’ so it was like, ‘Oh, I have a day off. Okay, now I have to spend it on this. Okay, fine.'”

Hawn continued, “We went and read, but I didn’t show it to anyone until that day, and we went and read it at the table. There were a few laughs and that was it. And I got so mad and went over and said, ‘I spent a whole half day with you and gave you a million hints 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 finished, the writers “thanked” her for what she did. However, Hawn noted that rewriting the script was “really hard.”

“You can’t create anything without disruption,” she told Ripa when explaining why she changed the film. “It’s going to happen, and if they can just continue with the status quo, we’re better than that and the idea is better than that and we have to be able to look at the story as well. So I’m sticking to my guns and being persistent.”

Hawn added, “One of our great screenwriters actually read the script. He’s the best script doctor we’ve ever had and he’s a friend of mine. So I brought it to him and he said, and Kurt (Russell) said, ‘You know, Goldie, this could be the end of my career. The script is in trouble.’ I said, ‘Yeah, but I have some ideas on how to fix it.’ And that’s what I did.”

The popular actress said she knew there were “a lot of things wrong” with the film.

“I watched the film afterward and then I was asked to bring someone in to rewrite the last part of the film,” she recalls. “I told everyone right away that this isn’t going well and now I’m the bad guy because they had to remake it and the director had to remake it. So he sat there with his arms folded and said, ‘All right, Goldie. So what do I do? What do I do?'”

The Wives Club was directed by Hugh Wilson and grossed $181 million at the worldwide box office. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

Despite the film’s success, there was never a sequel. Midler, 78, explained why in a 2022 interview with People.

“I also lobbied for the First Wives Club, but there were political reasons why they didn’t want to do it again. And it always broke my heart,” Midler said.

“I really felt like that was a pretty serious insult, because when women have hits, it’s a fluke,” she added. “But when men have hits, isn’t that great? At least that’s what they told us on ‘First Wives.'”