Jamie Lee Curtis Breaks Down Her Career, from 'Halloween' to 'Freaky Friday' | Vanity Fair

very very funny very funny and I improvised a line make good decisions what can I say when you're a teenager and you walk away from your mother and the car and your mother screams? In high school, make good decisions. I mean, come on, I had a fifteen year old son at home, so you can imagine, he makes good decisions. He hadn't done more. Horrors when I said I wasn't going to do more and I didn't do more for a while. A long, long time until one day I had lunch with John Carpenter and Deborah Hill, who co-wrote the movie with John Carpenter and produced it, became one of my best friends and I said, guys, in a couple of years we're going to be approaching 20. years, that's crazy because we're all sitting around and bragging about the business, we're still working, let's make a 20-year movie, we all decided to do it and then little by little John ended up not doing it.

Deborah ended up not doing it. but I ended up doing it and that's what became h2o. He wasn't a producer. It should have been because it was really my start to say, let's visit Laurie again. I wanted to talk about trauma, not to the level we did in 2018, but I wanted to mention horror movies that are about this horrible, crazy time in people's lives and then the movie ends and everyone goes home and pays the price. heating bill. People forget or I forget what happened to these characters in the movie, like what happened to Laurie Strode.

After that horrible night in 1978, I'm recovering as an alcoholic and kind of a drug addict and I thought maybe Laurie had a drug and alcohol problem, so we explored that in water and it was a good movie, it was okay, that was it . well, I liked it, I was happy that we did it, so I was on the next one, but very briefly then I thought, "okay, I'm done" and then I was doing other work and having a really beautiful life and writing children's books and Then, out of the blue, I got a call from Jake Gyllenhaal, who is a dear friend of mine and I knew since I was a little kid that he had just done the wonderful movie Stronger with David Gordon Green.

Jake called me and said: David Gordon Green. I'd like to talk to you about Halloween, he said why Dad likes the British thing 40 years later, he started throwing it. I told him no, no, it doesn't fit, just send it to me. I will read it. He sent it. I read it. I called. I told him it was fine and that was the 28th teen movie you saw. The intention to do was correct. It was to read. Visit. What really happens to someone when that type of trauma occurs in their life. What does that do to a human being?

How do you overcome that? How do you continue living? And really, what kind of story could we tell without me knowing? I certainly didn't anticipate it. It became this incredibly powerful moment in my professional life. In my personal life. I was turning 60. All kinds of things. happened at the same time, it really struck a chord, the movie was a huge success, it really reminded me how beautiful and rare that kind of storytelling can be. We made a movie 40 years ago when I was 19 years old and here I was playing it. character 40 years later in arguably a more successful film than any of the original Halloween films at the age of 59, reaching 16 and then of course since then David Gordon Green agreed to make a trilogy David and Danny McBride created this trilogy about Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, so Judy Greer and Andy Matichek came to be my daughter and my granddaughter, so it really turned out to be this incredible, unexpected creative experience, Mr.

Blanc I know who you are I read your profile in The New Yorker Me It seemed lovely I just buried my 85 year old father who committed suicide Why are you here? um I had a client assignment I didn't know anyone I was at a business conference and my agents called and said there was a Daniel Craig script, he was doing it at the time. I didn't even need to read it. I think I said it was okay and then of course I read it and it was delicious and the part was fun when you do it.

Movies today have a word called attached, so if they send you a script, you're reading it and by the way, Daniel Craig is attached to do it, that doesn't mean he's confirmed to do it, that means he's read it. and he said he likes it, but they're fishing, they're using it as bait to see who else they can catch and then maybe they'll take that group of fish and they'll go out to the market and maybe they'll sell them and maybe there wasn't a movie here where it was Daniel Craig confirmed Chris Evans confirmed toni collette Michael Shannon I would have made the movie if he had said knives out Michael Shannon Ryan I didn't know his work I hadn't seen exposed brick Star Wars I loved it no, no, don't stop it, aha, don't hate, just relax , breathe.

I would have done the movie just to literally be in a room with Michael Shannon, he is such a genius every single actor was confirmed and that was because that just doesn't happen and it's a murder mystery and we were all going to go to Boston to make this movie for two fantastic months, fast, very intense and very fun. Say it, I deleted it. There are no suspects because of the way David Gordon Green makes movies and the way Rian Johnson makes movies. I came home and wrote a script and I'm going to direct a script next year because they showed me that it's not just the best collaboration. medium, but it can be fun, it completely clicked my mojo back into making movies, I just can't get that creative spirit in me and now I'm creatively on a daily basis having some very intense ideas of things to do.