KURT RUSSELL

He was a child actor who literally grew up in front of the camera in a variety of roles. But you’ve never seen Russell, 64, play anything quite like bounty hunter John Ruth in the gleefully bloody new Quentin Tarantino film, The Hateful Eight, in limited

What’s your bounty hunter character like? “He is a bull in a china shop. He has no manners and doesn’t pretend to care, because he is about one thing— bringing his bounty in. He tries to capture them alive, because as bad as they may be, he believes that even those people deserve their day in court.”

What is it like working with director Quentin Tarantino? “There’s something sort of adventurous and illegal- feeling when it comes to working with Quentin. He loves the process of making movies from A to Z. It’s infectious, and you want to be a part of it.”

You have a lot of facial hair in the movie. “Oh my— I got rid of that the minute we finished. Actually, some people showed me things that were said on the Internet about my mustache. There are people out there that can actually write pretty cleverly: ‘ It’s a mustache wearing a man.’”

You and Goldie Hawn have been together more than 30 years. What’s your secret? “I don’t think there is any secret. We’ve been able to weather storms, enjoy each other’s company and love has come to the forefront when it needed to.”