I scare easily. I startle really easily.
The scream queen
of all time.
And now she is back in Halloween Kills.
(audience claps)
There's nothing inside that man but pure evil.
It's not just Michael.
It's what he's done to this town.
These people.
Decent people.
You're a good man, Frank. You were doing your job.
But now it needs to die.
'Cause every time somebody's afraid,
the boogeyman wins.
It needs to die.
And I'm the one that needs to kill it.
(all clap) So good!
Please welcome back Jamie Lee Curtis to the show!
Jamie!
Thank you for joining us again.
You've been a friend Nice to see you!
of the show for so long now.
We watched this together.
We had such a good time.
We were hiding under the covers and it was so fun.
It was so great.
It was actually poignant too, really.
I'm so happy that we came in with that particular scene.
That's my favorite work in the film,
is the work that you do in the hospital.
And those scenes were so beautiful.
They're really. Kudos.
Thank you.
How long did you spend in that hospital room? (laughs)
Okay first of all, when I read I was gonna be
in a hospital, you can only imagine.
A hospital means a hospital gown.
(all laugh)
I've done a movie already in a hospital gown.
The movie was called Halloween II.
And I did that a long time ago.
You know, hospital gowns just don't look cute.
(Rachael laughs) There's nothing cute
about a hospital gown.
And even Arnold Schwarzenegger,
if you put him in a hospital gown, he looks like a wimp.
(all laugh) It doesn't matter who you are.
So, I struggled with the restraint
because the last movie was so fierce.
And I was just struggling with the restraint for Laurie.
But I agree with you.
I think it's lovely to see the glimmer of the possibility
of love in her life and a little softening of a woman
that we've obviously has had a really rough go of it.
Yeah. (audience claps)
The stuff with Frank and Laurie just, I mean,
I was getting teary.
I'm like, "This is a horror movie.
I'm supposed to be scraping, not crying."
This script is very present in a lot of ways,
in that it very much deals with mob mentality.
I enjoyed that about the script too. Did you?
Well, you know, the 2018 movie was a movie about
women's trauma,
a woman's trauma. Yes!
40 years being haunted by this.
And it coincided with the women's movement, with Me Too.
It just coincided.
The way the movie was released in October, 2018
and the women's movement really started
at the beginning of October.
And so, the combination of those two things
really carried the movie.
Now you have a movie, written by the way in 2018, 2019,
but we are releasing it in 2021.
And it's a movie about the entire town,
the concentric circles of rage and violence,
and the collateral damage where a group of people
are saying, you know, the old network joke,
"I'm mad as hell."
[Rachel And Jamie] "I'm not gonna take it anymore."
You have a group of people who are saying,
"The system is broken.
We are gonna take matters into our own hands."
And obviously, around the world,
there have been these conflicts where people have risen up.
And now, here in the United States,
obviously there were a lot of angry people
coming to the Capitol.
And it, look, I'm not taking political sides.
I'm saying people are angry. Yeah.
People are angry and mob violence is scary.
But once again, it's coinciding again.
It collided!
It collided with a movie that we made two years ago.
So it's interesting to me.
It feels very prescient. (audience claps)
Do you scare easily?
Like when you watch movies? (Jamie laughs)
Or have you been on so many horror movie sets
Yes. that you're like,
"Ah, I know what they're doing. This isn't scary enough.
But you know what?
You've actually just touched on something.
Here's what I'll tell you. I am a natural actor.
I'm not trained. I've never went to drama school.
But I will tell you that I scare easily.
I startle really easily.
And I have been sort of terrified since I was an infant.
And if you look at pictures of me as an infant,
(all laugh) I look terrified.
I mean, if you guys can see the look on that face.
I am basically concerned
as an infant from the beginning of my life.
And in that, I think it just makes me naturally respond
in kind, in that way.
I think that's, I really do think that's why I'm successful
in the horror film franchise,
because of that response to fear.
You were born for this job!
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