What could possibly scare Jamie Lee Curtis?
The legendary actress has had her fair share of scares while getting chased through numerous horror movies like “Prom Night” “The Fog,” and the "Halloween" franchise -- the latest of which, “Halloween Kills,” debuts in theaters and on Peacock Oct. 15.
But what scares her outside of the movies?
She opened up to Entertainment Weekly about some of the things that scare her to death.
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Horror movies surprisingly top her list.
“When I was 15,” she explains, “my parents (actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis) screened ‘The Exorcist,’ and my friends teased me the next day because I was so freaked out. I loathe being scared by scary movies. I scare so easily. It's the reason that I'm so good at [being in them].”
While she loves the streaming hit, “Mare of Easttown,” it doesn’t mean she enjoys it.
“I watched ‘Mare of Easttown’ and my head was under the pillow,” admits Curtis. “My husband (actor-director Christopher Guest) will attest that any time the [scary] music starts, I immediately have my hands up in front of my eyes or I've covered my ears.”
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The connections between the new sequel, “Halloween Kills,” and real world events have also shaken Curtis.
“[Filmmakers] David Gordon Green and Danny McBride made a second [“Halloween Kills”] about rage,” says Curtis, “about a mob of angry people who don't trust the government, who don't trust the police who don't trust the authorities to get the job done. They're going to do the job themselves. And then look what happened on Jan. 6 in the United States of America. A mob descended on the Capitol, and were it not for those four brave officers as well as all of the other Capitol police, D.C. police, and civilians who stood up and held the line, [think about] the possibility of what that mob could have done to members of Congress. These people were coming to kill people. That's what the movie's about. Now how the f--- did David Gordon Green and Danny McBride know that the follow-up to trauma was rage? So if you ask me what scares me, rage scares me. Unbridled, unrestrained, out-of-your mind rage, that yields mob mentality and mob rule. That scares me.”
However, if you really want to scare Jamie Lee Curtis, tell her she has to be on set all night.
“I go to bed at 6:30,” admits the star, “so for me, night shooting is physically painful. My agents know that if the word night is in the title of the movie, don't even bring it to me.”
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