Walt Disney wrote a note about Kurt Russell before he died

The EW article pointed out that Walt Disney met Russell when the mogul was 63 and the actor was just 13. Disney knew Russell had the potential to become a big star, and Russell famously signed a 10-year contract while he was still in middle school. For a time in the 1970s, Russell was Disney’s Most Bankable Star. Walt, perhaps understandably, wanted to keep his young star happy and communicated frequently with Russell. Russell remembers a relaxed, affable boy who said, “We played a lot of ping-pong. […] And we talked a lot. He would ask me what I thought about things, and he knew he would get a straight answer. “Russell was in the rare position of being unfiltered with Walt Disney, and Disney seems to have appreciated that.

Disney died in 1966 at age 65, just two weeks after the release of Russell’s first Disney feature film, “Follow Me, Boys!” by Norman Tokar. Disney would not see the young star’s rise in popularity. Russell told EW that, a few years after Disney’s passing, he was sadly taken to his old office to reflect on his work. It appears that on Walt’s desk there was a slip of paper on which only the words “Kurt Russell” were written. It was, according to Russell, “the last thing he wrote”.

To this day, no one, especially Russell, knows what Walt was about to write.