Jamie Lee Curtis: She doesn’t want to end like her parents

Jamie Lee Curtis (66) has been standing in front of the cameras since the 1970s. Today it is without question one of the most famous faces of the dream factory. However, the US actress is also aware that Hollywood can let you fall quickly – especially with advancing age. The daughter of the legendary Tony Curtis (1925-2010) and the also famous Janet Leigh (1927-2004) once had to see how exactly this happened to her parents.

Curtis said a problem with the perception of beauty. As a teenager, she was “cute but not beautiful”, explains the actress. And she noticed how her parents’ careers stalled after her father and mother no longer had her youthful look.

“I witnessed how my parents lost exactly what gave them their fame, their life and their livelihood when the industry rejected them at a certain age,” says Curtis. “I witnessed how they had incredible success and how it was slowly undermined until he was no longer there. And that is very painful.”

This should not happen to her, it should be different for Curtis than with her parents. She has been preparing for this for 30 years. “I prepared to get out so that I don’t have to suffer the same thing as my family,” explains the actress. She wanted to “leave the party before I am no longer invited”.

There are a lot of actresses who like to make themselves chic, “the dresses love who love fashion who love to be a model. I. Hate.” Then she “has the feeling that I have to wrestle with your idea of myself and my idea”.

For a photo shoot accompanied by the interview, Curtis posed with large, red waxing lips – her statement against cosmetic surgery. In her opinion, the concept of changing your appearance through chemicals and surgical interventions, entire generations of predominantly women had distorted.

And she also comes to speak of artificial intelligence (AI), because today many people wanted “the filter face”. What is meant is probably mainly filters that are often used on social media. Curtis explains: “As soon as I put on a filter and see the before and after picture, it is difficult not to say: ‘Oh, now that looks better.’ But what is better?