Jamie Lee Curtis bought very emotional whereas discussing “Halloween Ends,” and her legacy as Laurie Strode at New York Comedian-Con on Oct. 8. “At this level, Jamie and Laurie have turn into woven collectively. There is no such thing as a separation,” she mentioned throughout her dialog with Drew Barrymore on Saturday evening. Curtis first performed Laurie in 1978’s “Halloween,” her first movie position. She was simply 19 years outdated whereas filming director John Carpenter’s horror masterpiece. “I’d not have a profession,” she defined of the position’s impression on her life. “I’d not have a household. All the things comes from you loving her.” Curtis referenced her age and mentioned that “considered one of nowadays” she is going to cross away and “It is gonna say three phrases: ‘Halloween‘ Actress Dies.”
Curtis has performed Laurie in seven “Halloween” movies, together with “Halloween Ends,” which comes out Oct. 14 in theaters and on Peacock. She additionally talked about how she ended up showing in 1998’s “Halloween H20: 20 Years Later” and really briefly in 2002’s “Halloween: Resurrection.” In keeping with Curtis, she went to director Carpenter and producer Debra Hill with the concept of doing a sequel to mark the 20th anniversary. Neither ended up returning for “H20,” however Curtis signed on. “It was conceived as what occurs once you run from worry,” she defined. Laurie is in hiding, with a brand new identify. “The entire conceit of the film was should you’re working from worry, you are lifeless inside.” On the film’s finish, as Curtis imagined, Laurie would lastly kill Michael Meyers as soon as and for all.
However when Curtis bought the script for “H20,” it had a “obscure” ending. “In that second, there was some contract . . . and also you could not kill him,” she mentioned of the franchise’s iconic villain. She was mad as a result of she did not need to inform followers it was the tip if it wasn’t actually the tip. Author Kevin Williamson got here up with an answer: Laurie would suppose she killed Michael Meyers, just for the masks to carry and reveal an harmless paramedic.
Curtis in the end agreed to this ending, with a caveat. “I mentioned, however you need to pay me some huge cash within the subsequent film, and you need to kill me within the first ten minutes as a result of I now killed an harmless man, and I can not reside with that,” she mentioned. Michael Meyers kills Laurie originally of “Halloween: Resurrection,” although each “H20” and “Resurrection” have been retconned by 2018’s “Halloween.”
Curtis additionally revealed that the one that satisfied her to return to the franchise was her godson: Jake Gyllenhaal. He had labored with director David Gordon Inexperienced earlier than. “David Gordon Inexperienced despatched me a script the place he mentioned I feel Laurie’s spent 40 years residing behind barbed wire,” she defined. She feels that after the occasions of the primary “Halloween,” Laurie went to highschool the subsequent day, and by no means handled the trauma round Michael Meyers’ homicide spree.
“It was an extremely stunning film about her trauma,” she mentioned, earlier than addressing the net meme of her saying the “film is about trauma” in fairly just a few interviews. “I’ve seen the f*cking meme,” she mentioned at Comedian-Con. “However the film additionally made a f*cking fortune, so f*ck you.”
As for “Halloween Ends,” Curtis mentioned the film, which picks up 4 years after 2021’s “Halloween Kills,” can also be about hope. “We now have to have hope,” she mentioned. “If we do not have hope, we’re so f*cked.”
“You understand endings are a bitch,” she mentioned of wrapping up her time within the franchise. “However so is Laurie Strode. So I am prepared to finish it, however I am gonna miss you a lot.”
