Hawn appeared on SiriusXM’sThe Megyn Kelly Showon Friday where she recalled meeting famedLil Abnercartoonist Al Capp for an audition when she was 19.
“I had a script and I was reading for this script. I go to Park Avenue at the time I’m supposed to meet with him,” Hawn said. “Next thing I know I’m in this rich guy’s apartment, and he’s famous and his name is Al Capp.”
“In he walks with his – I didn’t know he had a wooden leg, but he did – well, he walked like he had a wooden leg. He had this insidious grin. It was really ugly,” Hawn said. “And he said, ‘I’ll be back in a minute, I’m just going to slip into something.’ And he came back in a robe. So now I am freaking out because I am recognizing that something is going on.”
Hawn told Kelly, “Now I’m thinking to myself, ‘I better let him know I’m a good girl, I better let him know that, whatever he’s thinking, it’s not going to happen.'”
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“So I talk about my mom and my dad, and the fact that they wanted me to marry a Jewish dentist, and I wanted him to know that I was religious,” she said. “I wanted him to know that I had scrupulous.”
“He said, ‘Come on over here and give me a kiss.’ I was shocked, but I expected something like that,” she continued. “And so I went over to the couch because I wanted him to know that I wasn’t going to run out of the room, I was going to stay calm, and whatever. And he pulled over his…whatever that robe was…and his whole apparatus, his whole wiener, was literally lying there.
“And I looked at it and I said, ‘Oh, Mr. Capp, I’ll never get a job like this.’ And he said, ‘Well I’ve had them all, and nothing will become of you.’ And I said ‘That’s okay, I’m a dancer anyway, but I’ll never get a job like this.’ And he said, ‘Well, you just go back and marry a Jewish dentist.’ And I said ‘Oh, I might.’ And I walked out,” Hawn said.
Hawn previously spoke about the encounter to PEOPLE in 2017 sayingthe incident was “so scary.”
“He took off his business clothes and came in in, like, a dressing gown. I got the picture, and I thought, ‘I’m in trouble. Where’s the door?'”
Hawn said when she left Capp’s home she “was crying and I didn’t have any money to go back to the [1964 New York] World’s Fair, where I was dancing, and so he threw me $20 for a taxicab. It wasn’t a good day.”
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Years later, Hawn wrote Capp a note after she was cast onLaugh-Inin 1968 and won an Oscar for 1969’sCactus Flower, thanking him for not casting her on the show, saying, “I didn’t have to go marry a Jewish dentist.”
Capp died in 1979 at the age of 70.
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source: people.com
