Actor Jamie Lee Curtis on why the term ‘anti-ageing’ makes her angry
HOLLYWOOD royalty Jamie Lee Curtis has called for an age of reason, slamming our culture’s obsession with looking young and demanding we be allowed to grow old gracefully.
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HOLLYWOOD royalty Jamie Lee Curtis has called for an age of reason, slamming our culture’s obsession with looking young and demanding we be allowed to grow old gracefully.
“The term anti-ageing makes me crazy, the amount of marketing towards anti-ageing and making it a pejorative,” the 59-year-old Curtis told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.
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The daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh was in Sydney to promote new film Halloween — a direct sequel to the 1978 movie of the same name that was also Jamie Lee Curtis’s big-screen debut.
“(Ageing) cannot be the pejorative because it happens to everybody. It is like everything else, it is an evolution,” she said.
“I got sober 20 years ago so I am lucky in that sense and genetics play a big part in it. I am sitting here in my very nice red suit but this movie was obviously not a glamorous job and I am grateful that I get that opportunity.”
Curtis is in top shape and did most of the action scenes in the film, which raked in almost $110 million when it opened in the US last weekend.
“Every fight is me,” she said.
“I am fit but I am not a gym rat. It is just what we do. It is the nature of the beast — it is physical and it is painful. I cracked a rib, that is what happens.”