Jamie Lee Curtis

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q106997: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Halloween (1978); Prom Night (1980); Terror Train (1980); The Fog (1980); Trading Places (1983); A Fish Called Wanda (1988); The Experts (1989); Blue Steel (1990); My Girl (1991); True Lies (1994); Freaky Friday (2003); Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022); Anything But Love; Halloween II; Perfect; You Again.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974): 2 lines

  1. lineage (ancestor) · through Halloween (1978), which they acted in: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read). Halloween felt like it invented modern horror, but on rewatch Chainsaw is the real ground zero.
    “whenever I watch Chainsaw, I'm like, no, actually this is ground zero.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:03:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (double feature) · through Halloween (1978), which they acted in: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read). Bill pairs it with Halloween to compare how much Halloween cribbed from Chainsaw.
    “I went Halloween just to compare and contrast like how much Halloween, crib done, chainsaw, all that stuff.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:31:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Friday the 13th (1980): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Halloween (1978), which they acted in: Halloween ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Friday the 13th was an openly shameless Halloween ripoff, built on Halloween's success.
    “We have to talk about how this was the most unabashed ripoff movie probably of all time.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:17:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Sean S. Cunningham: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Halloween (1978), which they acted in: Halloween ⇒ Sean S. Cunningham (the host's read). Cunningham saw Halloween succeed, took out a trade ad for a non-existent movie, and found his funding.
    “The producer, Sean Cunningham, saw Halloween was successful, came up with this idea, put an ad in variety”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:17:50 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (20) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Jamie Lee Curtis → A Fish Called Wanda. Curtis should be proud of Wanda, a masterpiece, though she is in the ensemble.
    “she should be very proud, certainly, of being in official Wanda, which is a masterpiece, but she's in the ensemble.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:11:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Jamie Lee Curtis → Freaky Friday. Praises her sensitive, three-dimensional comic work and near Oscar.
    “She is fantastic and Freaky Friday.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:12:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Blue Steel → Jamie Lee Curtis. Blue Steel should have launched a new phase of Curtis's career but did not.
    “it does feel like this movie should have been the start of a phase in her career that didn't totally kickstart.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:12:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Jamie Lee Curtis → True Lies. True Lies lets her finally own the Jamie Lee Curtis persona while deconstructing it.
    “And then true lies, she gets to ultimately play this at the end of the movie, but a lot of it's a deconstruction of that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:14:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (final girl comparison): Marilyn Burns → Jamie Lee Curtis. What Burns endured is thousands of times worse than what Curtis went through at the end of Halloween.
    “this is like 3000 times worse.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:28:12 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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