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Jamie Lee Curtis explains why she thought her career was over after Freaky Friday
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Updated 13:24 8 Mar 2026 GMTPublished 13:23 8 Mar 2026 GMT

Jamie Lee Curtis explains why she thought her career was over after Freaky Friday

The actress brought up her famous parents and their careers in Hollywood

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Jamie Lee Curtis revealed how she thought her career would end after her 2003 hit with Lindsay Lohan.

If you grew up in the noughties, you’ll remember the hit, coming of age film, Freaky Friday.

The film, which starred Curtis and Lohan as they played a strait-laced mother, and rebellious teenage daughter who end up switching bodies and lives temporarily.

The film actually went on to give us the best Curtis scene, of her playing the electric guitar for her solo in Pink Slip’s Take Me Away song.

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Did you know she was actually playing the instrument?

Anyway, Curtis was a success in the flick, and it just added to her decades of amazing cinematography entries.

But the Halloween actress believed that it would be the end of her work.

Jamie Lee Curtis revealed why she thought her career was over (Disney)
Jamie Lee Curtis revealed why she thought her career was over (Disney)

According to her, she was worried it would be the final stop after reaching her 40 and being a ‘little chubby.’

However, the 67-year-old told Page Six that things changed for her when she was able to take control.

“You know, until recently, I was not in charge of creating my own work,” she said during the premiere of her new film, Scarpetta, on 3 March. “I was always at the mercy of someone else hiring me.”

However, it was 15 years after Freaky Friday that she was able to take charge of her work for 2018’s sequel to Halloween.

“[It] gave me enough of a platform to create a business where I could be my own boss,” she said.

Calling the industry ‘ageist’ and a ‘misogynistic business in many ways’, she went on to defy the odds regardless.

“I’m a practical person,” she said. “I’ve known the industry for a very long time. My parents were in an industry where they were more famous than I will ever, ever be, and the industry rejected them at a certain point.”

Her dad was Tony Curtis, who was the 1960’s Spartacus, and her mom was the infamous Psycho Janet Leigh, who was killed in the shower scene.

She ended up taking control of her options (Disney)
She ended up taking control of her options (Disney)

Just last year, Curtis came back to the flick she thought would be her last when Freakier Friday was announced – bringing back Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lucille Soong, Rosalind Chao, and Lohan.

While the synopsis is similar, it goes on to add a lot more drama when Tess and Anna Coleman once again switch... but not with each other.

The description reads: "Years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter.

"As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike twice."

I’m personally hoping for a third instalment.

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