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- Jamie Lee Curtis is the quilt star of the brand new concern of AARP The Journal
- The Freakier Friday star recalled her expertise on the 2023 Oscar ceremony, when she gained for her supporting efficiency in Every thing In every single place All at As soon as
- She and her castmates “by no means, ever” thought they’d be sitting within the entrance row at such a ceremony, she mentioned
Jamie Lee Curtis is reflecting on her accomplishments on and off the massive display screen.
In AARP The Journal’s new cowl story, the 66-year-old star recalled attending the ninety fifth Academy Awards in 2023, when she gained her first Oscar for Every thing In every single place All at As soon as. “What you do not know about that have was an even bigger story,” she instructed the outlet.
Upon arriving on the awards present, Curtis remembered the way it shortly grew to become obvious that she and her castmates had earned significantly thrilling seating assignments.
“As quickly as Ke [Huy Quan] and Steph Hsu and Michelle Yeoh got here and sat in the identical row, I actually walked as much as every considered one of them and I went, ‘Ke, the place are we?’ And he mentioned, ‘We’re on the Oscars.’ ‘And the place are you sitting?’ And he mentioned, ‘Within the entrance row,’ ” she recalled.
Curtis and her fellow Every thing In every single place nominees “by no means, ever, ever, ever, ever thought that they’d be sitting within the entrance row on the Academy Awards as nominees,” she mentioned. “That second for me was the entire thing. It was mind-blowing. And nonetheless is.”
Yeoh, 62, and Quan, 53, additionally earned Oscar statuettes that evening, together with the Finest Image winner’s writer-director-producers Daniel Kwan and David Scheinert. Curtis mentioned in her acceptance speech that it “appears like I’m standing up right here on my own, however I am not. I’m a whole lot of individuals, I’m a whole lot of individuals.”
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“I used to be raised in present enterprise, a enterprise that’s ageist, misogynist and pigeonholing,” the Freaky Friday star instructed AARP. “I’ve watched the unhappy actuality when present enterprise now not needs you. I watched it with my dad and mom [Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis], who went from the peak of their intense fame to no one wanting them anymore.”
However now in her sixties and busier in Hollywood than ever, Curtis named “fixed curiosity” as her “freedom.”
“I’m extra alive right this moment than I used to be after I was 37 years outdated,” she mentioned. “Or 47. Or 57. Far more alive.”
After her first Primetime Emmy Award win final yr for her visitor efficiency on FX’s comedy The Bear, Curtis is nominated once more in the identical class on the upcoming 2025 ceremony.
Amongst her upcoming initiatives are Freakier Friday (in theaters Aug. 8) with Lindsay Lohan, Ella McCay (in theaters Dec. 12) with Emma Mackey and a Scarpetta TV adaptation with Nicole Kidman.
