The actress spoke about the Halloween franchise in conversation with Drew Barrymore at New York Comic Con.
Laurie Strode was an acting part.
You know, you would have hired me to play Linda (the character portrayed by P.J.
Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘Halloween’.Everett Collection
Soles in the film).
I just a little snarky and I was a little promiscuous but I was not Laurie Strode.
What was amazing to me was [it was] an acting part.
She didn’t look like me, she didn’t dress like me, she did’t think like me.
I barely got out of high school.
She was like the valedictorian of her class.
There was a real opportunity for me to be an actor.
I hadn’t had that opportunity before.
For me, that was incredible."
“At this point, Jamie and Laurie have become woven together.
There is no separation,” she said, her voice cracking.
“I wouldn’t have anything in my life without Laurie Strode.
I wouldn’t have a career.
“I didn’t know it then, I know it now,” she continued.
My point is, it is the permanent ink of my life.”
As forHalloween Ends, Curtis described the film as concerning “how we treat each other.
Halloween Endspremieres in theaters and on Peacock Oct. 14.
Watch the film’s trailer below.
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