The impossible standards that Hollywood has set for women are no secret, and Jamie Lee Curtis is deciding to opt out.
The Freaky Friday actor stars in a new science-fiction-action-comedy-drama-everything movie called Everything Everywhere All at Once. (Cue that TikTok sound with Bo Burnham singing, “Can I interest you in everything? All of the time?”) The film was made two years ago before the pandemic shut most of Hollywood down, and its release date is finally approaching. In the film, the Halloween scream queen plays an IRS inspector opposite Michelle Yeoh, who stars as the manager of a laundromat in L.A. who just so happens to have access to multiple dimensions. Naturally, this means she’s expected to rid the world(s) of evil forces.
Ahead of the premiere at South by Southwest, Curtis shared to her Instagram an excerpt from her interview with Entertainment Weekly and spoke on the excitement she had playing her character. Alongside a photo of her in character, she spoke on the opportunity she had to be physically authentic—not an easy thing in an industry that’s so focused on concealing one’s natural beauty.
“In the world, there is an industry—a billion-dollar, trillion-dollar industry—about hiding things,” she says in the caption. “Concealers. Body shapers. Fillers. Procedures. Clothing. Hair accessories. Hair products. Everything to conceal the reality of who we are. And my instruction to everybody was: I want there to be no concealing of anything.”
She continued, “I’ve been sucking my stomach in since I was 11, when you start being conscious of boys and bodies, and the jeans are supertight. I very specifically decided to relinquish and release every muscle I had that I used to clench to hide the reality. That was my goal. I have never felt more free creatively and physically.”
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In the same interview with Entertainment Weekly, directer and writer Daniel Schneinert—who created the film with Daniel Kwan—shared how on board Curtis was with her character from the start. “There was one photo of an IRS auditor that Dan Kwan had found online,” he says. “I mean, maybe she worked in a DMV, I don’t know—but this one photo, Jamie was like, ‘That’s incredible, please let me be her, please, please, please, please.’ And that photo became the reference for the hairdo and the outfit.”
Jamie Lee Curtis Says She Asked Not to ‘Conceal’ Her Body in Her New Movie
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