Jamie Lee Curtis Age In Halloween: For the past four decades, horror fans have known about Michael Myers, a masked serial killer who preys on babysitters in a sleepy Illinois hamlet. Of course, the movie was about Halloween. And it was the first time we saw Jamie Lee Curtis, who played the nerdy babysitter Laurie Strode (the original “final girl”), who barely escaped the massacre.
Curtis has become a franchise mainstay with three more sequels under his belt, including one in which he meets his untimely demise. She had hoped to have moved on from that persona.
She admits, “I had no intention of being another Halloween movie,” yet she plays Strode again in the new Halloween. According to Curtis, the approach taken by director David Gordon Green and screenwriter Danny McBride made her want to come back. Toss out the other seven installments.
Think only of what has happened to Laurie Strode since Michael Myers attacked her in 1978. “Forty years after the fact, this film shows us what happens to a person who experiences a traumatic event at 17 but receives no professional assistance. It’s true that on November 1, 1978, after losing her best friend and surviving an attack, Laurie Strode returned to school with a bandage on her arm.”
Interview Highlights
On Laurie’s trauma
She graduated high school on October 31, believing she was destined to attend Brown University and change the world. Instead, on November 1st, she returned to school dressed like a weirdo. And that’s how trauma marks you forever after. The survivors are Laurie Strode, and everyone is like, “Oh my god, there she is!” Plus, it robbed her of her childhood.
She’s lost everything: she became pregnant after a couple of failed relationships, the state took her child away because she was deemed an unfit parent, and she’s been in a string of abusive relationships ever since. She was inappropriate because she spent all day preparing her daughter for Michael Myers’ return.
On People Telling Laurie To Get Over It
Everyone is telling her to stop worrying about it. That’s probably been a constant drumbeat in her ear since she was seventeen. And, you know, in a weird way, that’s all of our ways of separating ourselves from that trauma. Nobody is interested in getting serious about it. It’s far simpler just to prescribe medication and tell the affected person to “get over it.”
On Her Closeness To The Character
I had previously been in a TV show where I was one of six women and had two lines each episode on average, but in this film, I got to play a full-fledged character. A fully realized persona whose journey is both emotional and dramatic. Her name was all over the script, making me extremely happy.
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— Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) August 26, 2022
I’m not an academic, but I love giving and receiving hugs and passionate hugs, and I can be a bit of a smart-aleck sometimes. And here was a part for a bookish, repressed, virginal dreamer who strolled down the street singing to herself… In a romantic sense, she was attractive.
Consequently, she was the most fulfilling part I’ve ever had the privilege of playing. Please tell your friends about this if you think it’s interesting. Go to Newswatchlist.com for the latest updates and news about celebrities.