Her Friday is getting freaky.
Jamie Lee Curtis mentioned she’s making ready to go away the highlight – partly due to her expertise of watching her well-known mother and father’ careers as they aged, and due to watching cosmetic surgery take off.
“I witnessed my parents lose the very thing that gave them their fame and their life and their livelihood, when the industry rejected them at a certain age,” Curtis, 66, advised The Guardian, in an interview printed Saturday.
“I watched them reach incredible success and then have it slowly erode to where it was gone,” she added. “And that’s very painful.”
The “Halloween” star’s well-known mother and father had been Janet Leigh – who was in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” and Tony Curtis (“Some Like It Hot”).
Leigh died in 2004 at age 77, whereas her dad died in 2010 at age 85. They had been married from 1951 till their 1962 divorce.
Curtis additionally slammed cosmetic surgery as being “the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex, who’ve disfigured themselves.”
“The Last Showgirl” actress has been married to British actor Christopher Visitor since 1984, and shares daughters Ruby, 29, and Annie, 38, with him.
“I believe that we have wiped out a generation or two of natural human [appearance],” she defined. “The concept that you can alter the way you look through chemicals, surgical procedures, fillers – there’s a disfigurement of generations of predominantly women who are altering their appearances.”
She blasted AI as aiding and abetting this, “because now the filter face is what people want. I’m not filtered right now. The minute I lay a filter on and you see the before and after, it’s hard not to go: ‘Oh, well that looks better.’ But what’s better? Better is fake.”
Curtis didn’t identify names of celebs who’ve admitted to getting cosmetic surgery, such because the Kardashians.
“There are too many examples – I will not name them – but very recently we have had a big onslaught through media, many of those people,” she said.
Regardless of her plans to step again from the highlight, Curtis nonetheless has a current slew of sizzling tasks, in addition to upcoming motion pictures and TV exhibits.
She lastly received an Oscar in 2024 (for “best supporting actress” in “Everything Everywhere All At Once”), and has a recurring aspect position as Carmy’s (Jeremy Allen White) mom within the Emmy-winning drama “The Bear,” which has been renewed for a Season 5.
She’s additionally within the “Freaky Friday” sequel “Freakier Friday,” (hitting theaters Aug. 8) and he or she just lately confirmed that she’s going to take over the late Angela Lansbury’s iconic position of Jessica Fletcher in a “Murder, She Wrote” reboot.
Developing, she’ll movie “Ella McCay” alongside Woody Harrelson and her “The Bear” co-star Ayo Edebiri (premiering in December) and can star. within the Prime Video collection “Scarpetta” with Nicole Kidman (which doesn’t have an introduced premiere date but).
“I have been self-retiring for 30 years. I have been prepping to get out, so that I don’t have to suffer the same as my family did,” she advised The Guardian. “I want to leave the party before I’m no longer invited.”
“I have become quite brusque,” the “True Lies” actress added. “And I have no problem saying: ‘Back the f–k off.’”
