Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis opened up about her concerns of retirement and Hollywood’s growing old drawback in relation to her dad and mom, icons of the trade Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis.
In an intensive interview with The Guardian tied to the upcoming Aug. 8 launch of Disney’s Freakier Friday, the Halloween actress slammed the leisure world’s therapy of older actors, notably ladies.
“I witnessed my dad and mom lose the very factor that gave them their fame and their life and their livelihood, when the trade rejected them at a sure age,” she defined. “I watched them attain unbelievable success after which have it slowly erode to the place it was gone. And that’s very painful.”
Due to this, Curtis added, “I’ve been self-retiring for 30 years. I’ve been prepping to get out, in order that I don’t should endure the identical as my household did. I wish to go away the celebration earlier than I’m now not invited.”
Within the accompanying photoshoot for the story, Curtis donned outsized plastic lips to lambast the rise of beauty surgical procedure over latest years, and the strain ladies really feel to change themselves. Two months in the past, she informed 60 Minutes that she as soon as had cosmetic surgery at 25 following a derogatory comment about her look and “regretted it instantly and have type of kind of regretted it since.”
“The wax lips is my assertion towards cosmetic surgery,” The Bear star stated of the aesthetic selection. “I’ve been very vocal concerning the genocide of a technology of girls by the cosmeceutical industrial advanced, who’ve disfigured themselves. The wax lips actually sends it dwelling.”
Defending her use of the phrase “genocide,” she added: “I’ve used that phrase for a very long time and I exploit it particularly as a result of it’s a powerful phrase. I imagine that we now have worn out a technology or two of pure human [appearance]. The idea that you would be able to alter the way in which you look via chemical substances, surgical procedures, fillers — there’s a disfigurement of generations of predominantly ladies who’re altering their appearances. And it’s aided and abetted by AI, as a result of now the filter face is what folks need. I’m not filtered proper now. The minute I lay a filter on and also you see the earlier than and after, it’s onerous to not go: ‘Oh, nicely that appears higher.’ However what’s higher? Higher is faux. And there are too many examples — I cannot title them — however very not too long ago we now have had an enormous onslaught via media, a lot of these folks.”
Alongside the soon-to-be-released followup to 2003’s Freaky Friday, Curtis will star in a Homicide, She Wrote reboot; is producing The Misplaced Bus, a movie primarily based on the 2018 Camp Hearth starring Matthew McConaughey; and starring and govt producing Scarpetta, primarily based on Patricia Cornwell best-selling novels, which is already picked up for two seasons at Prime Video, alongside Nicole Kidman. She will even produce and star within the psychological horror movie Sender, alongside Britt Decrease, David Dastmalchian and Anna Baryshnikov, and seem in James L. Brooks’ dramedy Ella McCay, additionally starring Woody Harrelson, Emma Mackey, Ayo Edebiri, Rebecca Corridor and Albert Brooks.
