Jamie Lee Curtis Has Some Ideas on How to Protect the Film Industry
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The Oscar winner goes deep on producing her wild SXSW premiere 'Sender' and how it reflects her larger philosophy about making hits in Hollywood: "Nobody knows shit about what makes anything successful."
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Just as the original Halloween did nearly 50 years ago, David Gordon Green’s revival of the iconic horror franchise in 2018 changed the course of Jamie Lee Curtis ’s career in a few important ways. The first was that, because the star wasn’t fully up to speed on the filmmakers’ plan to make another trilogy out of it, she approached producer Jason Blum to launch a production deal together. “I’m sure he gave it to me because he needed me to do two more Halloween movies,” she cracks. The second had to do with the actual creative experience of making that movie. “It was fast and fun and collaborative and nobody took money and it was all made for nothing — and I came back really turned on,” she says. Specifically, Curtis told her husband, the filmmaker Christopher Guest, that she would write and direct the movie she’d been wanting to make since she was 19 years old, called Mother Nature . Through a Zoom box, she shows me her voice-memo recording of the 40-page outline she dictated on March 1, 2018, two weeks after filming on Halloween concluded. Related Stories Movies Slash Boards SXSW Doc 'Black Zombie' as Executive Producer Movies How a New Documentary Helped Crack a Brutal Cold Case in L.A.'s Gay Porn World Mother Nature has still not seen the light of day — though Curtis did make a graphic novel out of it; more on that later — but Curtis has made good on that creative reawakening. The 67-year-old’s acting career has exploded, taking home her first Oscar ( Everything Everywhere All at Once ) and Emmy ( The Bear ) in the last few years. She’s produced everything from the newly premiered Nicole Kidman TV vehicle Scarpetta to last year’s Freakier Friday sequel to the currently Oscar-nominated The Lost Bus . Her most intriguing behind-the-scenes ...
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