Their first real night together ended with the arrival of the police. Forty years later, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell were still together.
It was 1983 and the two actors found themselves on the Swing Shift set.
"Refound" is the right word, because that was not their first encounter.
They knew each other since the late 1960s, when they worked at The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band. Goldie was just over 20 years old, while Kurt was still a teenager.
She remembered him as a charming boy, but too young to give birth to something.
Then their lives had taken completely different paths.
Goldie had become one of America's most popular actresses, had known marriage and separation and had become the mother of Oliver and Kate.
Kurt, who grew up in front of the cameras, built his career and became Boston's father.
When the cinema made them meet again, so they were no longer the two boys of many years before.
And something changed.
Russell would have told that, seeing Goldie, he spontaneously complimented her on her appearance. She was flattered and that little moment helped break the ice.
For Swing Shift they had to familiarize themselves with dance and swing music. So they decided to go out and dance at the Playboy Club.
It was supposed to be a business night.
I'll be something else.
They spoke, laughed and spent hours together. Then Goldie proposed to Kurt to see the house he had just purchased and was still under renovation.
But there was a small problem: they didn't have the keys.
They still entered the house.
Soon after the police arrived.
So what would become one of the longest couples in Hollywood found itself, right at the beginning of its history, in front of some agents who came to control what was happening.
Kurt would have remembered that episode for years, telling it with irony as a first release difficult to forget.
But the interesting part came later.
There was not only a love story. There were already children, families and lives built before they were found.
Goldie had Oliver and Kate. Kurt had Boston. In 1986 their son Wyatt was born.
Little by little they built an enlarged family and a relationship destined to become unusual especially for an environment like Hollywood, where the sentimental stories of the stars are often told through spectacular weddings and equally public separations.
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell made a different choice.
They didn't get married.
For them, the absence of a certificate meant no lack of commitment. Over the years, Goldie has explained their connection through a very simple concept: continue to choose.
Perhaps this is the detail that makes their history particular.
The cinema had brought them together when they were too young so that something could happen.
The same profession brought them back many years later, when both had already discovered that real life is much more complicated than scriptures.
And their history did not begin with a ceremony, a solemn promise or a scene built to be romantic.
He started with music, a house still to settle, no key to entering and the unexpected arrival of the police.
Maybe that's why she stayed in their memories that night.
It didn't seem like the perfect start of a love story.
It was simply the beginning of theirs.