Jamie Lee Curtis is grateful her mom would not let her audition for The Exorcist.
The 67-year-old actress made her film debut as Laurie Strode in 1978’s Halloween, however her large break might have come when she was simply 12 years previous as a result of producer and household good friend Ray Stark was eager to have her learn for the position of the possessed Regan MacNeil however her mother Janet Lee did not agree.
Jamie mentioned on The Drew Barrymore Present: “He referred to as my mother and mentioned, ‘Hey, I’m producing the film of the guide The Exorcist. Will you let Jamie audition for it?’
“And on the time I used to be in all probability 12 and, like, cute and type of sassy and I had some character, and I’m certain he noticed me at a celebration and was like, ‘Oh, she’d be humorous.’ And my mom mentioned, ‘No.’ ”
The Freakier Friday actress famous Drew – who was simply seven years previous when she appeared in E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial – did not get the identical “safety” she had as a baby.
She mentioned: “My mother actually needed me to have, thank God, a childhood, which I perceive you didn’t get. You didn’t get that choice.”
Linda Blair was finally forged as Regan, incomes an Oscar nomination for the position.
In the meantime, Jamie beforehand mirrored on how a lot she beloved working with Lindsay Lohan on Freakier Friday, this 12 months’s sequel to their 2003 comedy Freaky Friday.
She instructed Selection: “She has taught me a lot. She has her group, the place her two folks can be standing on both facet of a digicam holding a giant mild.
“It’s Lindsay lighting – that might have been good branding – they maintain lights in order that we glance higher.
“So, I’ve realized lots from her already. We had fun. We love one another.”
She added to the publication of the second movie: “It’s a film for at the moment. It’s a comfortable, nostalgic, humorous, candy, heartfelt, Disney film proper on the finish of the summer season.
“There haven’t been a whole lot of motion pictures for girls, and it is a love letter to each mom, grandma, sister, cousin and daughter.”
Jamie has a number of different tasks within the works together with a TV model of Patricia Cornwell’s guide Scarpetta alongside Nicole Kidman, rip-off film Sender and spy drama Spychosis.
