Elizabeth Hurley Reveals Why She Didn’t Appear in the ThirdAustin PowersMovie: 'It Wasn't My Fault'

Mar. 15, 2025

BlameElizabeth Hurley’s son for her absence inAustin Powers in Goldmember.

During an appearance onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenthat aired Wednesday, April 3, the actress opened up about her absence from the thirdAustin Powersfilm, explaining that she couldn’t film because she was pregnant with her now 21-year-old sonDamianat the time.

“When I was offered it, I said to them — and they were the first people who knew, aside from my immediate family — I said, ‘Guys, I’m pregnant.’ And I was pregnant with my son,” Hurley, 58, recalled. “I said, ‘So, unless you shoot it literally next week, I don’t think I can shoot it.’ "

Elizabeth Hurley and Mike Meyers in ‘Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery’.New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection

Hurley appeared in the first twoAustin Powersfilms, playing the spy’s love interest Vanessa Kensington in 1997’sAustin Powers:International Man of Mysteryand 1999’sAustin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

Beyoncé in ‘Austin Powers in Goldmember’.New Line Cinema

And while she missed the third movie, Hurley told PEOPLE in November 2022 she’d be down to do a fourth film — that is, as long as it involves franchise starMike Myers, whom Hurley said “goes down as one of my very favorite costars.”

“A brilliant man, fabulously kind and gentle and of course one of the best comedians on Earth,” she said. “Mike is a genius. It would be wonderful to do something with him again.”

But at least one thing might need to be different this time around: Vanessa’s wardrobe. “I’m not sure I’d fit in my costumes again,” she said, joking that she’d have to do the film “in slightly different costumes.”

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Myers, meanwhile, has teased that anotherAustin Powersmight be on the way. “Ican neither confirm nor denythe existence or non-existence of such a project, should it exist or not exist,” the 60-year-old actor teased to SiriusXM’sJess Caglein May 2022, adding that he"would love to do” a fourth movie.

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenairs Sunday-Thursday nights on Bravo.

source: people.com