A meant-to-be second! Jamie Lee Curtis opened up about her household’s affect on her profession earlier than successful huge on the 2023 Academy Awards.
The California native, 64, mirrored on following in her mother and father’ footsteps whereas talking with Us Weekly completely on the purple carpet on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 12. “I feel good,” Curtis advised Us of her way of thinking heading into the ceremony, the place she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her position in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Jamie Lee Curtis. Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
The Freaky Friday star — who’s the daughter of late film stars Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh — received emotional as she mentioned her ever-growing Hollywood household.
“The community of show business is a family,” Jamie Lee advised Us. “I mean, even the Everything Everywhere All at Once group, we are a family together, and so my parents have just joined a now much bigger family for me because I’ve been doing this for such a long time.”
The Halloween actress went on to reward her family members whereas accepting her first-ever Oscar on Sunday evening. “I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself, but I am not. I am hundreds of people,” she gushed, giving a shout-out to administrators Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (a.ok.a. The Daniels). “To all the people who have supported the genre movies that I’ve made for these years … we just won an Oscar together!”
Jamie Lee celebrated costars Michelle Yeoh and Stephanie Hsu and husband Christopher Guest earlier than trying as much as the heavens. “And to my mother and my father, who were both nominated for Oscars in different categories — I just won an Oscar!” she concluded.
Before her loss of life at age 77 in October 2004, Leigh earned an Oscar nomination for her efficiency in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. It was the only Academy Award nod of her profession. (She received a Golden Globe for a similar position in 1960.)
Jamie Lee Curtis accepts the award for finest efficiency by an actress in a supporting position for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
Jamie Lee’s father, in the meantime, was up for Best Actor on the 1959 Oscars for The Defiant Ones, however he walked away empty-handed. The Midnight star died of cardiac arrest in September 2010. He was 85.
The Scream Queens alum has usually been candid about her Hollywood pedigree, notably amid the viral “nepo baby” debate. Following the December 2022 New York journal article on the subject, Jamie Lee shared her impassioned take through social media.
“I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby,” she wrote in a prolonged Instagram caption. “I’ve never understood, nor will I, what qualities got me hired that day, but since my first two lines on Quincy as a contract player at Universal Studios to this last spectacular creative year some 44 years later, there’s not a day in my professional life that goes by without my being reminded that I am the daughter of movie stars.”
She continued: “The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt. For the record I have navigated 44 years with the advantages my associated and reflected fame brought me, I don’t pretend there aren’t any, that try to tell me that I have no value on my own. … I have suited up and shown up for all different kinds of work with thousands of thousands of people and every day I’ve tried to bring integrity and professionalism and love and community and art to my work. I am not alone.”
The Emmy nominee asserted that she and different youngsters of well-known mother and father must be “proud of our lineage” and “strong in our belief in our right to exist.”
Jamie Lee and her Everything Everywhere All at Once costars swept the foremost classes at Sunday’s Oscars, accumulating Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Actress (Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan) and Best Picture.
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With reporting by Hannah Kahn
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