Kevin Kline says the secret to his 35-year marriage to Phoebe Cates is not having a 'Hollywood marriage'

• Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates are a uncommon illustration of a long-lasting personage marriage.
• The 2 person been joined since 1989.
• Kline credits Cates — and nan 2 of them not surviving successful Hollywood — pinch their success.

Kevin Kline's concealed to a successful Hollywood marriage? Simply don't person a Hollywood marriage.

The 77-year-old character and prima of Apple TV+'s "Disclaimer," a bid created by Oscar victor Alfonso Cuarón and costarring Cate Blanchett, has been joined to erstwhile character Phoebe Cates, 61, for complete 35 years.

In a famously fickle manufacture that's often fixated connected appearances, maintaining a happy marriage— and immoderate semblance of privateness — tin beryllium astir impossible.

"If your matrimony lasts much than six months, you're already successful nan Guinness Book of World Records, if you're a Hollywood marriage," Kline joked while speaking to Business Insider connected nan reddish carpet for nan premiere of "Disclaimer" astatine nan Toronto International Film Festival successful September.

Kline said he doesn't categorize his narration pinch Cates arsenic a "Hollywood marriage" — some literally, successful nan consciousness that they've ne'er lived successful Hollywood (they've spent astir of their matrimony surviving on nan Upper East Side of Manhattan, wherever they raised their family), and figuratively, successful nan consciousness that they're some beautiful low-key, non-celebrity types contempt being well-known actors.

"That's why you'll spot nary Botox. These are my lips, what's near of them," Kline joked, gesturing to his face.

Kline said he attributes their happy matrimony to Cates herself. "She's sewage her caput connected her shoulders, dissimilar me. I usually person my caput connected her shoulders, too," he told BI. "She's a awesome wife, a awesome mother, awesome person, and she keeps maine honest."

"Except for successful interviews," Kline added.

Kline met Cates during auditions for nan 1983 movie "The Big Chill," soon aft he'd made nan leap from shape to surface pinch his movie debut successful "Sophie's Choice." The 2 began making love successful 1985, and joined successful 1989 — nan aforesaid twelvemonth Kline won an Oscar for "A Fish Called Wanda."

Cates, for her part, became celebrated for her roles successful iconic 1980s comedies for illustration "Fast Times astatine Ridgemont High" and "Gremlins." She retired from movie acting successful nan 1990s (save an quality successful "The Anniversary Party," a 2001 movie written and directed by her champion friend and erstwhile "Fast Times" costar Jennifer Jason Leigh) and now runs Blue Tree, an Upper East Side boutique she opened successful 2005.

Cates and Kline stock 2 children: boy Owen, calved successful 1991, and girl Greta, calved successful 1994.