Because the little one of mega-famous film stars, Jamie Lee Curtis witnessed the glamorous highs and soul-crushing lows that include a profession in Hollywood. In a prolonged interview with the Guardian printed Sunday, Curtis admitted she’s been “prepping to get out” of the trade for years partly to keep away from the identical destiny that befell Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
“I witnessed my mother and father lose the very factor that gave them their fame and their life and their livelihood, when the trade rejected them at a sure age,” she defined. “I watched them attain unimaginable success after which have it slowly erode to the place it was gone. And that’s very painful.”
“I’ve been self-retiring for 30 years. I’ve been prepping to get out, in order that I don’t need to undergo the identical as my household did. I need to depart the celebration earlier than I’m not invited,” Curtis added.
Regardless of these three many years of self-retirement, Curtis can be having fun with an amazing second in her profession. The long-awaited sequel to 2003’s “Freaky Friday” — appropriately titled “Freakier Friday” — will probably be launched August 8.
Curtis was selling the newest installment within the “Halloween” franchise, which got here out in 2022, however she saved getting requested a few probably follow-up to her lighter fare. “In each single metropolis I went to, the one film they requested me about moreover ‘Halloween’ was ‘Freaky Friday’ – was there going to be a sequel?” she mentioned.
So she known as Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney. “I mentioned: ‘Look, I don’t know in the event you’re planning on doing [a sequel], however Lindsay is sufficiently old to have a young person now, and I’m telling you the marketplace for that film exists.’”
After discovering out Disney initially deliberate to ship the film straight to streaming, Curtis picked up the telephone once more and demanded a theatrical launch. “And I known as Bob Iger, and I known as David Greenbaum [Disney Live Action president], and I known as Asad Ayaz, who’s the top of selling, and I mentioned: ‘Guys, I’ve one phrase for you: ‘Barbie’. In the event you don’t assume the viewers that noticed ‘Barbie’ goes to be the viewers that goes and sees ‘Freakier Friday’, you’re fallacious.’”
Elsewhere within the interview, Curtis railed towards what she known as the “genocide of my era” — cosmetic surgery — and insisted, “I’ve used that phrase for a very long time and I exploit it particularly as a result of it’s a robust phrase. I consider that now we have worn out a era or two of pure human [appearance].”
“The idea that you could alter the best way you look via chemical substances, surgical procedures, fillers – there’s a disfigurement of generations of predominantly girls who’re altering their appearances,” Curtis added. “And it’s aided and abetted by AI, as a result of now the filter face is what folks need.”
“I’m not filtered proper now. The minute I lay a filter on and also you see the earlier than and after, it’s exhausting to not go: ‘Oh, effectively that appears higher.’ However what’s higher? Higher is faux. And there are too many examples – I can’t identify them – however very just lately now we have had an enormous onslaught via media, a lot of these folks.”
Curtis additionally mentioned that regardless of her sturdy emotions on the subject, she doesn’t lengthen that to the alternatives others make. “No. No. As a result of I don’t care. It doesn’t matter. I’m not proselytising to them. I’d by no means say a phrase,” she defined. “I’d by no means say to somebody: what have you ever accomplished? All I do know is that it’s a endless cycle. That, I do know. When you begin, you’ll be able to’t cease. But it surely’s not my job to provide my opinion; it’s none of my enterprise.”
Learn the whole interview with Jamie Lee Curtis on the Guardian.
