Jamie Lee Curtis says she felt the spirit of her late parents, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, after her Oscar nomination. “They were the first thing I thought of,” she says. “I never thought I would reach their level.”
] I’m the donkey who’s been shrugging on the plow in all sorts of areas for a very long time. I only realized it this morning when I knew I was going to talk to you that it’s like discovering a secret room in the house you’ve lived in your whole life that you never knew was there—or if you did, you had papered over it or plastered over it and just forgotten about it. Having my name called that morning was a total shock. I know people would say, “Oh, come on Jamie, you knew.
I am giddy with excitement about it. The smile has not left my face. I’m kinda curmudgeonly. I’m very careful because I’ve been an actress since I was 19; I’m 64 and I’ve tried not to get my heart broken by the industry. I have felt like an outsider. I’m in genres that are not traditionally recognized in the more mainstream show-off business—I’ve been a horror-genre participant since I was 19. I’ve been in a lot of comedies, and comedies aren’t often recognized in these bigger categories.
I think of those scenes that you and Michelle have that visually can seem quite absurd, but you two find real meaning and depth and create this relationship and this life. To your point about understanding this character, especially given the nature of the way this movie was made, what was your experience on set day to day? How did that contrast with how you saw the film come together?James Hong
would try to steal the scene by farting or burping or falling asleep in the middle of the scene. I remember that after we did the first big master of the scene over me to them, I looked at Ke and he looked at me and he asked, “Was I okay?” I said, “Were you okay? You were amazing.” He said, “I haven’t acted in 20 years until this moment.” So that was day one. Day two was on me, over them to me. I got to do all of Deirdre’s work.
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