One of the original “Scream Queens”, as well as a legitimate sex symbol through large parts of the 1980s and 90s, Jamie Lee Curtis Had managed to fit into one or another box for most of their career made a fact the clearer when learning She was born into Hollywood Royalty As the daughter of the screen legends Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. But when Curtis turned the corner of 60 a few years back, she realized that she needed to stop meeting everyone else’s expectations and go for the kind of work that really fed her creativity.
“I blasted the mood boards because I’m not the one you think I’m,” Curtis said in A new interview with Empire. “It’s probably the biggest core of it: I’m not the one you think I’m. Let me show you. I am much more than you think I am. ”
This change in her career resulted in her following the role of unstable matriarch donna berzatto On “The Bear”, for which she won a Primetime Emmy for outstanding guest actress, and her Oscar-winning tour as a demented tax auditor in “Everything Everywhere at once.” Most recently, her support performance in “The Last Showgirl” received her a nomination at the 2025 SAG Awards. These were parts that allowed Curtis to embrace her authentic, strange-yourself while still breaking the creative challenges that each character was presented and taken on by a desire to make their last working years for their most important.
“When I turned 60, I really met that moment to think I would die soon,” Curtis said. “I looked at the actuarial table and I was like, ‘Whoa! Crap!’ And I realized that the only tragedy about my possible death – because I have had a wonderful life – is the creativity I have held in myself that I have never produced. “
In addition to everything on the screen that she has done in recent years, Curtis has also made a screenplay and produced, after forming an agreement with Jason Blum and Blumhouse Productions hoping to direct their own work a day soon. She brought him too “Scarpetta,” An upcoming TV series adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s books with Nicole Kidman, “The Lost Bus”, which shows the aftermath of the 2018 fire fires on the city of Paradise, California (Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrare are currently linked to Paul Greengrass which is set to directly),, which is set to directly), which is set to directly),
“Jason Blum gave me a deal because I’m hungry after this,” Curtis told Empire. “I’ve wanted to do this all my life. I have written scripts since I was an actor first. It’s an extraordinary moment for me. “
As much as she has had this career cleaning, there are evergreen parts of the Curtis entertainment business are still struggling to bend.
“I don’t like the fantasy part of show-off stores,” she said. “Every red rug is a fashion statement that definitely scares me, because it is this fantasy – as if these people own these clothes, as if they look that way. The idea we put it out in the world. That attitude is something that I am not comfortable with. “
Despite this, there is something about the work she has been able to take on in recent years that has enabled her to embrace her true self as well. As an actor, She doesn’t always want to lean on pretend.
“More recently, I have been able to become characters who have freed me from some vanity, who then release me as an artist – because then it doesn’t matter, because then I just do the work,” Curtis said. “And I’ve always wanted to do the job.”
“The Last Showgirl” is currently in theaters from road attractions.
