LOS ANGELES (KNX) – Roots are unforgettable for Jamie Lee Curtis.
“Only thing I don't like is you didn't introduce me as local girl,” the actor told KNX In Depth’s Charles Feldman and Rob Archer. “Your news, your traffic report. It was my childhood.”
The local girl, who is up for an Oscar for her role in “Everything, Everywhere All At Once”, isn’t focusing on getting that golden trophy. Instead, her focus is on the “Make March Matter” campaign for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
The month-long event collaborates with local businesses where funds spent there will be donated to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
“If you go to Make March Matter (website) you will see our corporate partners and you will understand that if you go to Panda or Porto's or Randy's or, those are three of hundreds of our partners, you will see who are the partners and then you can support those businesses because those businesses support the institution,” she said.
Curtis maintains she’s all in with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
“They are, they are my people and I advocate for them,” she said. “I am the voice for them when they need it and I do a lot of head cheerleading.”
When she’s not cheerleading for charity, she has been doing a lot of it for “Everything Everywhere All At Once” as the movie takes home award after award. The Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert movie, which was filmed in Simi Valley, is up for multiple awards on Saturday.
“I never thought I would go as a nominee and so when to say I'm excited, of course I am,” she said.
Despite her decades-long career on screen, Curtis said an Oscar nomination is something she never thought about.
“The work I've done most of my life has been genre work, it's not been work that's been taken particularly seriously by the more, I don't even know what the term is, more respectable, it's terrible to say that,” she said. “Then I made this little movie called ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.”
The month long event collaborates with multiple business both local and national where funds spent there will be donated to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
For the full list of Make March Matters partners, click here.
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