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Though she won her Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once, the Jamie Lee Curtis renaissance undoubtedly started with 2018's excellent Halloween legacy sequel, directed by David Gordon Green. That project eventually turned into a trilogy, but Curtis has revealed that had she known the full scope of Green's plans, she wouldn't have said yes in the first place.
Speaking on a SXSW panel (h/t Variety), Curtis didn't mince her words when discussing the reason why a trilogy of Halloween films for Blumhouse didn't appeal at the time. "If they had come to me and said it's going to be a trilogy, I don't think I would have said yes," Curtis revealed. "Jason Blum is notoriously cheap. How do you make low-budget movies? You don't pay people. That's the model."
Article continues belowCurtis, of course, went on to star in the less-well-received sequels, Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022), though – spoiler alert! – Laurie Strode survives her final battle with Michael Myers, meaning Strode could one day return (though that sounds extremely unlikely). Curtis is at SXSW with Russell Goldman's directorial debut, Sender, about a woman whose paranoia spirals out of control when she receives a series of mysterious packages from an unknown sender. Severance's Britt Lower, Pluribus' Rhea Seehorn, and One Piece season 2's David Dastmalchian also star.
