After 40 years in business, Jamie Lee Curtis strikes Oscars with ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
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HOLLYWOOD: She is Hollywood royalty, the daughter of two legendary actors. She turned a scream queen for the ages within the “Halloween” movies and did an attractive striptease for Arnold Schwarzenegger in “True Lies.” Now, Jamie Lee Curtis is an Oscar winner.
The 64-year-old Curtis on Sunday took residence her first Academy Award on her first nomination for taking part in a surly tax auditor investigating laundromat proprietor Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) within the mind-bending “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
After practically 50 years on the large and small display screen, it was actually a crowning second, and one which her well-known dad and mom — nominees Janet Leigh (“Psycho”) and Tony Curtis (“The Defiant Ones”) — by no means achieved.
“I just won an Oscar!” she mentioned tearfully on the finish of her speech, by which she paid tribute to her dad and mom, her husband and youngsters, followers and colleagues.
Curtis is the one notable non-Asian star within the movie’s ensemble and one among 4 Academy Award nominees together with Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu, who was additionally in Curtis’ class. Quan was additionally a winner on Sunday.
As IRS agent Deirdre Beaubeirdre (Curtis) reels off all of the errors that Evelyn has made on her taxes, the characters are all swept into an epic battle throughout a number of universes to save lots of humanity from a robust villain.
Curtis, who was recognized earlier in her profession as “The Body” for her slender physique, subverts that picture in her “Everything” flip because the paunchy Deirdre, who sports activities a frumpy bob, a mustard turtleneck and a lemon yellow sweater vest.
“I’ve been sucking my stomach in since I was 11, when you start being conscious of boys and bodies, and the jeans are super tight,” she wrote on Instagram in 2022.
“I very specifically decided to relinquish and release every muscle I had that I used to clench to hide the reality. That was my goal. I have never felt more free creatively and physically.”
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Throughout the course of the movie, the lonely IRS agent has an epic battle scene with Yeoh’s character, sprouts scorching canine fingers, and leads to one universe as Yeoh’s lover.
It’s a gonzo, no-holds-barred efficiency from an actor who has been working since her late teenagers.
“I loved Deirdre because I know how lonely she is and I know how forgotten she is. I understood what a garden exists inside her,” Curtis advised The Washington Post.
Curtis bested a subject of nominees that included Golden Globe winner Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), Hong Chau (“The Whale”) and her personal co-star Hsu.
Curtis gained the Screen Actors Guild award within the run-up to the Oscars.
From ‘Halloween’ to ‘Everything’
Curtis was born within the Los Angeles space in November 1958, however her dad and mom divorced just some years later, and he or she was raised by her mom and inventory dealer stepfather.
After an itinerant highschool life that ended at an elite East Coast boarding college, Curtis managed just one semester at school earlier than dropping out to pursue appearing.
Her movie debut got here as heroine Laurie Strode within the 1978 horror movie “Halloween” — a significant field workplace success that will spawn a number of sequels.
Producer Debra Hill admitted she employed Curtis as a result of her mom had starred in Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” dying by the hands of Norman Bates within the notorious bathe scene.
But whereas it was maybe a little bit of stunt casting, it might change into one among Curtis’ most iconic roles, one which she reprised most not too long ago within the 2022 movie “Halloween Ends.”
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Since then, she has appeared in dozens of movie and tv roles, from the 1983 comedy “Trading Places” to 1988’s “A Fish Called Wanda” reverse Kevin Kline, to the 1994 spy flick “True Lies” with Schwarzenegger to TV’s “Scream Queens.”
She not too long ago starred within the all-star whodunit “Knives Out.”
In 2003, she starred with Lindsay Lohan in a preferred remake of “Freaky Friday,” by which the our bodies of mom and daughter are magically switched. Curtis has mentioned a sequel is probably within the playing cards.
As for upcoming tasks, Curtis is ready to star in a movie adaptation of the online game “Borderland” with Cate Blanchett, and in a tv sequence primarily based on the Kay Scarpetta mysteries written by Patricia Cornwell.
Curtis has been married to Oscar-nominated actor/director/author Christopher Guest (“This Is Spinal Tap”) since 1984. The couple has two youngsters, Annie and Ruby.
HOLLYWOOD: She is Hollywood royalty, the daughter of two legendary actors. She turned a scream queen for the ages within the “Halloween” movies and did an attractive striptease for Arnold Schwarzenegger in “True Lies.” Now, Jamie Lee Curtis is an Oscar winner.
The 64-year-old Curtis on Sunday took residence her first Academy Award on her first nomination for taking part in a surly tax auditor investigating laundromat proprietor Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) within the mind-bending “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
After practically 50 years on the large and small display screen, it was actually a crowning second, and one which her well-known dad and mom — nominees Janet Leigh (“Psycho”) and Tony Curtis (“The Defiant Ones”) — by no means achieved.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
“I just won an Oscar!” she mentioned tearfully on the finish of her speech, by which she paid tribute to her dad and mom, her husband and youngsters, followers and colleagues.
Curtis is the one notable non-Asian star within the movie’s ensemble and one among 4 Academy Award nominees together with Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu, who was additionally in Curtis’ class. Quan was additionally a winner on Sunday.
As IRS agent Deirdre Beaubeirdre (Curtis) reels off all of the errors that Evelyn has made on her taxes, the characters are all swept into an epic battle throughout a number of universes to save lots of humanity from a robust villain.
Curtis, who was recognized earlier in her profession as “The Body” for her slender physique, subverts that picture in her “Everything” flip because the paunchy Deirdre, who sports activities a frumpy bob, a mustard turtleneck and a lemon yellow sweater vest.
“I’ve been sucking my stomach in since I was 11, when you start being conscious of boys and bodies, and the jeans are super tight,” she wrote on Instagram in 2022.
“I very specifically decided to relinquish and release every muscle I had that I used to clench to hide the reality. That was my goal. I have never felt more free creatively and physically.”
ALSO READ | Oscars 2023: Check out the listing of winners; ‘Naatu Naatu’ from ‘RRR’, ladies create historical past
Throughout the course of the movie, the lonely IRS agent has an epic battle scene with Yeoh’s character, sprouts scorching canine fingers, and leads to one universe as Yeoh’s lover.
It’s a gonzo, no-holds-barred efficiency from an actor who has been working since her late teenagers.
“I loved Deirdre because I know how lonely she is and I know how forgotten she is. I understood what a garden exists inside her,” Curtis advised The Washington Post.
Curtis bested a subject of nominees that included Golden Globe winner Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), Hong Chau (“The Whale”) and her personal co-star Hsu.
Curtis gained the Screen Actors Guild award within the run-up to the Oscars.
From ‘Halloween’ to ‘Everything’
Curtis was born within the Los Angeles space in November 1958, however her dad and mom divorced just some years later, and he or she was raised by her mom and inventory dealer stepfather.
After an itinerant highschool life that ended at an elite East Coast boarding college, Curtis managed just one semester at school earlier than dropping out to pursue appearing.
Her movie debut got here as heroine Laurie Strode within the 1978 horror movie “Halloween” — a significant field workplace success that will spawn a number of sequels.
Producer Debra Hill admitted she employed Curtis as a result of her mom had starred in Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” dying by the hands of Norman Bates within the notorious bathe scene.
But whereas it was maybe a little bit of stunt casting, it might change into one among Curtis’ most iconic roles, one which she reprised most not too long ago within the 2022 movie “Halloween Ends.”
ALSO READ | ‘Naatu Naatu’ efficiency receives standing ovation at Oscars 2023
Since then, she has appeared in dozens of movie and tv roles, from the 1983 comedy “Trading Places” to 1988’s “A Fish Called Wanda” reverse Kevin Kline, to the 1994 spy flick “True Lies” with Schwarzenegger to TV’s “Scream Queens.”
She not too long ago starred within the all-star whodunit “Knives Out.”
In 2003, she starred with Lindsay Lohan in a preferred remake of “Freaky Friday,” by which the our bodies of mom and daughter are magically switched. Curtis has mentioned a sequel is probably within the playing cards.
As for upcoming tasks, Curtis is ready to star in a movie adaptation of the online game “Borderland” with Cate Blanchett, and in a tv sequence primarily based on the Kay Scarpetta mysteries written by Patricia Cornwell.
Curtis has been married to Oscar-nominated actor/director/author Christopher Guest (“This Is Spinal Tap”) since 1984. The couple has two youngsters, Annie and Ruby.
