HOLLYWOOD -- Kurt Russell has put his Vancouver home up for sale.

Russell and his partner Goldie Hawn purchased a $4.1-million US mansion in Vancouver's Shaughnessy district in 2003 so their son Wyatt could play junior hockey.

"Wyatt was 16 when we bought our Vancouver property. He's 19 now and in his final year of school. He's done really well in school and in hockey," says Russell.

"He really wants to play college hockey and lots of schools in the States are looking at him so there's no reason for us to keep our Vancouver home."

This was Russell and Hawn's second Canadian home.

They owned lakeside property in the Muskoka region of Ontario but sold it because amateur and professional photographers kept intruding on their privacy.

"People pretty much left us alone in Vancouver and I was able to do a couple of films up in the area while we were living there.

"It was an ideal move for us."

In Wolfgang Petersen's Poseidon, Russell, 55, plays a former mayor of New York who wants to control every move his teenage daughter (Emmy Rossum) makes.

"When it came to raising my own kids, I was nothing like the guy I play in Poseidon," insists Russell, who also has a son, Boston, from his brief marriage to actress Season Hubley.

Though he never married Hawn, her two children, Oliver Hudson and Kate Hudson, consider him their father and call him dad.

"I think being over protective is destructive. That's not the way I was raised and it's not the way I raised my children.

"I wanted my kids to get to a point where they could run their own lives."

Russell's father Bing Russell played the sheriff on TV's Bonanza.

Russell himself made his acting debut at age 10 in 1963 in an episode of Edmond O'Brien's TV series Sam Benedict.

A year later he was signed to a 10-year contract with Disney Studios where he appeared in such family flicks as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Strongest Man in the World and Follow Me, Boys.

His career has been long and prolific, yet Russell says acting "never ceases to be fascinating for me.

"I hope I have another 20 years to work and maybe have a couple of really great films in the second half of my career. I've had some great ones in the first half."

Russell says he and Hawn are set to begin work on a film she wrote.

"It's called Ashes to Ashes. It's a really solid script.

"It will be the first time Goldie and I have worked together since Overboard in 1987.

"It's been much too long. It's time we were back on screen together."

Russell says there's great irony in his starring in Poseidon.

"When we were living in Vancouver, I bought a yacht and got to enjoy sailing so much, Goldie and I were talking about taking a cruise.

"After filming Poseidon and seeing what can happen out there at sea I've pretty well shelved that idea."


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