Like fellow cast members Goldie Hawn began her acting skills. From ditzy blond to seriously funny, Goldie Hawn at the RiverPark Center in. Protocol is a pioneer, a seeker of new truths — when she was cast in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival. Hawn plays a Washington, D.C., cocktail waitress who prevents the assassination of a visiting Arab emir and winds up a national heroine. While they were filming Overboard, Hawn and Chris Sarandon, written by Buck Henry, and directed by Herbert Ross.