While interviewing Disney Legend Kurt Russell, Deadline asked him about the last words Walt Disney wrote before he died.

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Russell explained that he received a call from the company to see Walt Disney’s office. He was called in to look at the note Disney wrote before his death, which was simply his name. They wanted to know if he knew what it pertained to. He said, “Gee, I don’t. I have no idea.”

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Russell was 15 when Disney died and was about to become a huge star for the company. The film that launched his career, Follow Me, Boys!, came out just two weeks before Disney’s death on December 15, 1966.

This isn’t the first time Russell has talked about the note. In 2017, he talked to The Huffington Post about it:

They pulled me into the office a couple years after he died, and this woman — who I don’t believe it was his secretary, but it might’ve been, I don’t know ― pointed to [something he wrote] and she said, ‘Do you know what that’s about?’ And I said, ‘No, I don’t.’[She said], ‘Because he wrote something after it. But then he went back up and he wrote your name. That was the last thing he wrote.’ And I said, ‘Oh gee. I don’t know what it’s connected to.’

He went on to tell the outlet that he valued his time and relationship with Disney. Russell mentioned that Disney was similar to his grandfather, who had a similar personality:

We did have a personal relationship. We played Ping-Pong at lunch sometimes. He’d come down to set. We’d go watch movies that the studio was making, and he’d come down and ask if I wanted to go see them. He’d took me around and introduced me to all the different departments at Disney, and at one point gave me a bunch of original photo cells that they make the backdrop drawings of the characters and stuff like that.

Russell was made a Disney Legend in 1998 in the Film category.

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