Jamie Lee Curtis is trying to her legendary mother and father’ careers as a warning signal for when to exit Hollywood. Curtis, who’s the daughter of “Psycho” icon Janet Leigh and “Some Like It Sizzling” star Tony Curtis, advised The Guardian that witnessing how Hollywood handled her mother and father as they aged led to her having an early retirement plan.
“I witnessed my mother and father lose the very factor that gave them their fame and their life and their livelihood, when the trade rejected them at a sure age,” Curtis stated. “I watched them attain unimaginable success after which have it slowly erode to the place it was gone. And that’s very painful.”
Curtis added that she has been “self-retiring for 30 years,” saying, “I’ve been prepping to get out, in order that I don’t must endure the identical as my household did. I need to depart the get together earlier than I’m not invited.”
Leigh died in 2004 with greater than 80 display credit to her title. Her movies included “Contact of Evil,” “The Good Furlough,” “Angels within the Outfield,” “The Manchurian Candidate,” and “Bye Bye Birdie.” Tony Curtis’ profession equally spanned six a long time; he died in 2010.
Regardless of Curtis teasing her personal retirement plan, the actress is certain staying busy: Curtis is main sequel “Freakier Friday,” in theaters August 8, and is about to star alongside Nicole Kidman in crime novel sequence adaptation “Scarpetta.” Curtis can also be rebooting “Homicide, She Wrote,” which her late mom Leigh visitor starred in. Curtis will tackle the function made iconic by the late Angela Lansbury, with Curtis starring as thriller novelist Jessica Fletcher.
“We’re a minute away. However, yeah, very excited, very excited. However I’m, you recognize, tamping down my enthusiasm till we begin capturing,” Curtis lately stated concerning the reboot sequence. “I’ve a pair different issues to hustle after which, then I’ll get to get pleasure from that work.”
Curtis has beforehand shared her ideas on the “nepo child” discourse with having two famed actors as mother and father. “It’s curious how we instantly make assumptions and snide remarks that somebody associated to another person who is legendary of their discipline for his or her artwork, would in some way haven’t any expertise in any respect. I’ve come to be taught that’s merely not true,” Curtis stated. “I’ve suited up and proven up for all completely different sorts of labor with 1000’s of 1000’s of individuals and on daily basis I’ve tried to convey integrity and professionalism and love and group and artwork to my work. I’m not alone. There are numerous of us. Devoted to our craft. Pleased with our lineage. Robust in our perception in our proper to exist.”
She added, “I’ve by no means understood, nor will I, what qualities obtained me employed that day, however since my first two strains on ‘Quincy’ as a contract participant at Common Studios to this final spectacular inventive 12 months some 44 years later, there’s not a day in my skilled life that goes by with out my being reminded that I’m the daughter of film stars. For the file I’ve navigated 44 years with the benefits my related and mirrored fame introduced me, I don’t faux there aren’t any, that attempt to inform me that I’ve no worth by myself.”