Jamie Lee Curtis enjoyed a breakout like no other in John Carpenter’s seminal slasher, “Halloween.”
Leigh was the original scream queen, asThe Guardiannotes.
It may have all started with “Halloween,” but it certainly didn’t end there.
Both, funnily enough, were also Canadian projects.
The film didn’t exactly make waves, but its leads were heralded for their commitment.
The actor admitted toVogue, “I scare so easily.
I don’t like to be frightened; I abhor it, to be honest …
So it’s just ironic that I ended up making my living by being scared.”
Curtis explained she always had “an intuitive sense of how to perform.
It allowed me to explore that in playing her.
So, in that sense, yes, she and I are similar.”
