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Jamie Lee Curtis has many reasons to be grateful this year. She is turning 60 for Thanksgiving and she is currently celebrating the monstrous success of "Halloween". The new 1978 sequel to John Carpenter's original sequel brought in $ 76.2 million on his first weekend – the biggest opening for a female-dominated horror film and for any movie a woman over 55 years old.
Curtis plays Laurie Strode, the terrified babysitter who has become a revenge grandmother who is once again confronting masked killer Michael Myers. And she proudly pointed to the success of the new movie (directed by David Gordon Green) in what she called a "boastful post" this was liked 187,000 times on Twitter.
"This was not meant to be a boost for the ego," Curtis said. "It was a moment of great pride for all of us. Allow me to be the representative of the generations of women who have been in the film business and who have got no recognition. Let me be the one who gets up and says, "We can do it, we have done it and we will do it again".
She spoke by phone from Australia, where she attended the premiere of the film in Sydney. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
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What does the reception of Down Under look like?
I traveled the world as an ambassador for this movie. Wherever I went, the reaction is the same. The film works at such a level. The experience of seeing David Gordon Green's film, written by John Carpenter [who directed the original and composed its haunting theme], told at a time when women take the story of their lives to their authors is both a life imitating art and art imitating a life. And it's exciting to be the girl in a red suit in the middle of it all.
Have you had any doubts about the possibility of replaying Laurie?
No. I heard about this script for the first time in June 2017 and I said yes immediately after reading it. I understood what [the screenwriters] David, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley were trying to do it. They were trying to talk about a generational trauma in the middle of a slasher movie. I have recognized the incongruity of this and yet, the great advances that it could give.
It was before the explosion of the # MeToo movement.
Yes, it was before women around the world started raising their hands and having the immense courage to name their abuser and stand behind their experiences, despite the assault of people trying to deny them their truth. The power that came from all those brave women, these young gymnasts, all of Bill Cosby's accusers, began to touch us during filming, because it was happening simultaneously. Here we were doing a movie on the same theme that was playing all together. So we all understood that we had a much greater responsibility, that we were telling a bigger story than we thought.
How did becoming a mother and grandmother affect Laurie?
Being a parent is the most transformative experience that a human being can live. Laurie was a broken person when she conceived her daughter. She did her best to try to raise and protect her, but she could not afford to have an innocent childhood, as Laurie was traumatized. I have never experienced something like this and I raised two beautiful, intelligent and open-minded people. But I will not lie or obscure and say that I have not had any trauma and that horrible and unexpected things are happening because that's what's going on in everyone's life.[CurtisarécemmentparléaumagazinePeoplede[CurtisrecentlytoldPeoplemagazineabout[CurtisarécemmentparléaumagazinePeoplede[CurtisrecentlytoldPeoplemagazineaboutits dependence on opiates for 10 years from the end of the 80s.]This is the common feeling that reigns in a movie theater. That's why the film resonates.
To what extent does the current political environment play a role?
Someone with a higher degree than I would ever have could look back and do an analysis of the periods of history where horror films have experienced their zenith. It's when things are sociologically, culturally, and politically uncontrollable, and you get out of it to get into a black theater and share something terrifying with a group of strangers. This level of post-traumatic stress is not unique to Laurie Strode. It is universal for all women alive because women have been oppressed since the beginning of time. Greater than that, people have felt the onset of sexual, criminal, political, emotional and environmental violence. Watching a woman we've known for 40 years in power, one way or another, we can all invest in that same little girl we invested in 40 years ago.
Why Michael Myers remains such a compelling figure?
It is a big draw mainly because of its enigmatic evil. It is an evil that expresses no facial expression, has no voice, moves slowly but kills for revenge. It's a universal terror that you associate with a woman representing everyone and you have a recipe for people to go to the film again and again, which seems to be happening.
What were your box office expectations for this movie?
I am the girl with zero expectations. I was the girl who asked to be removed from each tracking email. I said, "I do not want any updates. I'm going to do my job, then I go home and you can tell me how we did it. "
What was your reaction when you saw the numbers for the first time?
I remembered one night when we were shooting and I broke the coast. I was lying in the mossy grass outside Charleston [South Carolina]and it was 4:30 in the morning. I was exhausted, beaten, bloody and bruised. I remembered thinking, "What am I doing? I am almost 60 years old. I just want to go home and go to bed.
Then I snap my fingers and wake up for a text with a Thursday night number. My answer was "Is it good?" They replied, "Yes, very much." At that moment, I smiled.
Would you be open to another suite?
If my phone rings and David Gordon Green asks me to do anything, I'll do it as fast as I can say, "Yes." Because for me, in this moment of my life, I go where creativity is. And I'm very lucky to have been the head cheerleader of this movie.
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