Jamie Lee Curtis says realizing she's 'going to die soon' sparked a turning point in her career
Jamie Lee Curtis has opened up about how realizing she was 'going to die soon' sparked a huge turning point in her career.
The 65-year-old first rose to fame as an actor in 1978 release Halloween and has continued her acting career ever since, appearing in other hits such as Freaky Friday (2003) and Knives Out (2019).
However, as a result of a sudden realization, Curtis decided to up her game when it came to donning the cap of producer more seriously.
Before any Freaky Friday fans panic, no, she hasn't been diagnosed with a terminal illness or anything.
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Curtis acted as a producer in several of the other Halloween franchise movies such as 2018 release Halloween.
She's also executive produced on films such as 2020's Best Summer Ever and 2021's Timers.
However, Curtis recently revealed to Entertainment Weekly: "I only stepped into my own power as a producer when I realized I was going to die soon."
"When I turned 60 was a real turning point where I realized all of the things I'd been holding in my head, heart, mind, soul, spirit, and life force were going to die with me if I didn't bring it out into the universe," she continued.
And it's this realization which prompted her to knuckle down and fully launch her own film, television and podcast production company called Comet Pictures in 2019, which later signed a three-year first look deal with Blumhouse the following year, as reported by Deadline.
Curtis added: "That was my moment of truth, and that's when I went to Jason Blum and said, 'I want a production company.' It has yielded quite well for all of us."
And Curtis' latest project in the role of producer is for an upcoming documentary about '90's fitness icon Susan Powter which deals with similar themes surrounding aging.
Curtis explained: "This was never an exploitation piece about Susan Powter, it was an indictment of how we discard human beings as they get older in this country.
"It's an exploration of the incredible cruelty that we inflict on older people and the lack of resources, and the lack of dignity offered these human beings who've lived before us and have been in service to us, and have given us the lives we all are now living. It's an indictment to every family who has shuttered away the elderly in that forgotten, awful way that they do. It is an indictment of how we treat older people in our work lives.
"That's what we do to old people: We walk by them. For me, as much as this is a fun, nostalgic look back to a time that was mindless... it's an indictment, exploration, and a challenge for all of us to look at how complicit we are as individuals in that story, and that's what the movie is about."
Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Jamie Lee Curtis
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