TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — When The First Wives Club was released in 1996, it was a huge box office hit and eventually became a cult classic. So why wasn’t there a sequel to the film that followed three ex-wives as they got revenge on their former husbands?
“We were all women of a certain age, and everyone took a cut in salary to do it so the studio could make what it needed. We all took a smaller back end than usual and a much smaller front end. And we ended up doing incredibly well. The movie was hugely successful. It made a lot of money. We were on the cover of Time magazine,” Goldie Hawn said in the March issue of Harvard Business Review.
“But two years later, when the studio came back with a sequel, they wanted to offer us exactly the same deal. We went back to ground zero,” she continued. “Had three men come in there, they would have upped their salaries without even thinking about it,. But the fear of women’s movies is embedded in the culture.”
The film, which also starred Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, earned over $181 million globally.
Now Kate Hudson’s mother is looking to get back to work. Hawn said she’s “looking at a potential television series that’s in its nascent stages.”
Still, it’s taken so long to find her next project because Hawn says she’s very selective. “It’s important, at least for me, that while we’re entertaining there’s also something substantive to talk about. Whether you’re an actor, producer, writer, or director, it’s all about the story you’re going to tell,” she explained.
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