Jamie Lee Curtis is thinking about the severe criticisms she received at the start of her career.
When the actress, 66, played in the romantic drama of 1985 “Perfect”, she affirms that the director of photography made a remark which not only hurt her, but led her to pass under the knife.
“He was like” yeah, I don’t shoot him today. His eyes are ample “”, remembers Curtis in Sharyn Alfonsi in the episode of Sunday of “60 minutes”.
“I was 25 years old. To say that it was very embarrassing. So, as soon as the film finished, I ended up undergoing plastic surgery. ”
The film was directed by James Bridges and followed journalist Adam Lawrence (John Travolta), who fell in love with aerobic instructor Jessie Wilson (CURTIS) during a mission.
The star of “Halloween” explained that the future with the operation did not go well.
“It’s just not what you want to do when you are 25 or 26,” said Curtis. “I regretted it immediately and I have somehow regretted it since.”
“I became very in love with the hot bath of an opiate,” she continued. “You know, drank a little, never in excess, never big public demonstrations. I was very calm, very private on this subject. But it became a dependence for sure.”
Curtis is now 26 years of sobriety to his credit and can see the project through a more grateful lens.
“Of course, I look really good in a leotard,” said Curtis, referring to his emblematic scene of the film. “Believe me, I saw enough pictures of me in this leotard where I even go like,” really? ” »» »
“It lasted seven minutes,” said Curtis about the realization of the original scene. “It’s a lot.”
Curtis even recreated the sequence in January with Jimmy Fallon, who was broadcast on “The Tonight Show”, Leotard and everything.
Meanwhile, it was not the first time that Curtis spoke of the commentary, which she previously shared by Gordon Willis.
“One day, I was on the film” Perfect “, and Gordon Willis, the big cameraman, watched me and told me:” Yes, I don’t shoot it today “”, she revealed the New Yorker in 2019. “I was swollen that day, for any reason. I was mortified.
The same year, the daughter of actress Janet Leigh and actor Tony Curtis spoke to Variety for the “recovery problem” and plunged more deep into her cosmetic surgery.
“I naturally had swollen eyes. If you see pictures of me when I was a child, I seem to have slept, ”recalls Curtis. “I have always been this person, and we were turning a scene in a courtroom with this kind of high and unpleasant fluorescent light, and she came to my cover in the scene, and (the cameraman) said:” I do not pull the ball today. His eyes are too swollen. “”
The comment made sure that the actress feels “mortified and so embarrassed”, so she decided to undergo a “routine plastic surgery to eliminate the pockets”.
Shortly after, Curtis became addicted to the Vicodin.
“I was the very controlled addict and alcoholic,” admitted the star. “I never did it when I worked. I have never taken drugs before 5 p.m., I never, never took pain relievers at 10 a.m. It is this kind of late afternoon and early evening – I like to refer to myself as the feeling of hot bath of an opiate … I chased this feeling for a long time. ”
In 2021, the Hollywood icon admitted why it believes that plastic surgery is detrimental to today’s society.
“I tried plastic surgery and it didn’t work. It made me addicted to Vicodin. I am 22 years old now, ”she reiterated in company. “The current trend of loads and procedures, and this obsession with filtering, and the things we do to adjust our appearance on zoom destroy generations of beauty. Once you are mistaken with your face, you cannot recover it.”
Curtis also believes that social media has changed people’s self -perception and made the comparison with a top of all time.
“It’s like giving a chainsaw a toddler,” she said. “We simply do not know the longitudinal effect, mentally, spiritually and physically, on a generation of young people who are agony because of social media, because of comparisons with others. We all who are quite old know that everything is a lie. It is a real danger for young people. ”
Curtis, on the other hand, has long been a solid supporter to embrace aging and love it at each stage.
“I try to own it. Is that not what life is supposed to be? We are growing up, we learn, we do all these things. Now we have to own it,” she said today in 2024. “We must have who we are, who we are and be in full acceptance of who we are and what we are not. And I think that is the beauty of me.”
Curtis also took a step back from a pleasure.
“I have been sober for a long time, a long time – over 25,” said the star. “And the best thing I learned last year in recovery is that people are not satisfied when you stop people who like … It was as if the greatest sage had arrived on me.”
She added: “I say what I mean, I mean what I say and I try not to say that it means.”
