Crocodile Dundee’s Linda Kozlowski ‘banned’ folks from wedding ceremony and stop appearing
Paul Hogan stars in Crocodile Dundee
While the romantic comedy Crocodile Dundee II made waves when it hit cinema screens again in 1986, the film made an irreversible influence on the lives of the film’s stars. The then 55-year-old actor behind Crocodile Dundee, Paul Hogan, was married throughout filming, however he was left obsessed on his co-star, Linda Kozlowski. The younger American actress performed his love curiosity, Sue Charlton, and – finally – issues bought passionate between them.
Reports started to hit Australian news retailers that Hogan and Kozlowski had struck up a romance behind the scenes of the film set.
This news was made much more stunning contemplating that Hogan had an nearly 30-year marriage on the time. But earlier than lengthy, he cut up from his first spouse, Noelene Edwards, and began a relationship with the 28-year-old Kozlowski.
Before starring in Crocodile Dundee, Kozlowski was an entire newcomer to Hollywood. Hogan later commented that she was “broke and unemployed” earlier than the film hit cinemas.
“She delivered the goods,” he added. “She was a star-in-waiting. When she signed up and was coming to Australia, it sort of worried us a little bit. She was a New Yorker. But she was terrific — a pleasure to work with.”
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Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski met on the set of Crocodile Dundee (Image: GETTY)
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The pair’s relationship continued to blossom, and by 1990 they had been married. But due to how high-profile their relationship was all through the earlier years, the press and paparazzi had been desperate to get entangled within the wedding ceremony a method or one other.
As a end result, as reported by Associated Press on the time, the fierceness of the curiosity within the wedding ceremony left Kozlowski no selection however to “ban” reporters, photographers, and different ne’er-do-wells from the occasion.
Instead, Hogan and Kozlowski invited round 100 company, together with shut family and friends. And they then proceeded to proceed their movie careers collectively.
The married couple then continued to work collectively within the following Crocodile Dundee films (1988’s Crocodile Dundee II and 2001’s Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles). But issues bought strained from then on.
In 2013, reviews hit that Kozlowski had cut up from Hogan after 23 years of marriage.
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The Crocodile Dundee lovers finally cut up (Image: GETTY)
The then 55-year-old filed for divorce from Hogan, who was then 74-years-old. The divorce was later finalised in 2014. She informed the Australian press: “Honestly, we just naturally grew apart. One of our problems was we really had nothing in common and, over time, that happens to a lot of people.”
She defined that the cut up was “completely amicable”. She added: “We talk on the phone all the time, I go over and have coffee. We’re completely friendly. Everybody’s happy.”
Hogan additionally spoke out about his divorce from Kozlowski with the Daily Telegraph. He confessed that they loved 20 “wonderful years” collectively earlier than changing into “worn out” for “two or three”.
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He went on to take the “blame” for the wedding’s ending. He mentioned: “I’m very flighty — a woman lasts for about a quarter of a century and then they get bored with me. We were opposites and we were attracted to each other for a long time. Opposites in everything. From the food we ate, the music we liked, the entertainment we liked, the colours, the clothes, the places, everything. It worked anyway.”
Despite their divorce, he did not deem the wedding a failure. “How can you ‘fail’ after a quarter of a century?” he mentioned. “Failed marriages are when two people stay together even though they have long ago lost much interest.”
The finish of their marriage adopted the news that Kozlowski had stop Hollywood totally.
After the third film within the Crocodile Dundee sequence, Kozlowski determined to surrender appearing for good. In 2001 she opened up about what pushed her to make this name.
She defined: “These straight-to-video schlocky films I was getting were giving me an ulcer, basically, because I was the only one on the set that cared about anything.”
Kozlowski complained that sure scenes “didn’t make sense”. She’d get pithy replies corresponding to: “Aw, so what, just say the lines!”
“I thought, this isn’t fun anymore,” she sighed. “This is not why I studied, it’s not what I love. Between that and my biological clock, I decided to give it all away.”
She added that she wouldn’t wish to construct her appearing profession from the bottom up for the second time. “I certainly don’t want to go backwards and get back into that grind,” the 43-year-old mentioned. “Driving from Santa Barbara five times a week to go on these auditions I don’t even want to do.”
Despite this, she famous that she could possibly be satisfied to return – if the proper movie got here up. She confessed: “But life is strange. If something happened out of the blue that was a step in the right direction to doing more good work, that would be OK, I’d work again.”