Vick's Flicks, Ep. 169: Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis is back in theaters in Freakier Friday, so Brandon and Stoney saw it fitting to dig through her expansive 47-year filmography on this month's episode of The Vick's Flicks Podcast.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the SOBS Network proudly brings
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film critic, Brandon.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
Welcome back for another episode of the Fix Flicks podcast
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(00:52):
available on Nashvillemoviedispatch dot substack dot com. Joined today, we're
gonna be talking about the filmography of one of the
most prolific actresses of our time, Jamie Lee Curtis, and
I couldn't do it without my co host here on
the vix Flix podcast, the man whose namesake It bears.

(01:13):
He is a board member of the Music City Film
Critics Association. He is a member of the South Eastern
Film Critics Association. He's our resident film critic here on
Nashville Movie Dispatch, mister big shot himself Brandon Vick. Brandon,
how you doing on this fine August day. Did you
just fall asleep?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I thought it's called heat exhaustion.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Heat exhaustion is real. How do you explain? I talk
about this a lot, and it wouldn't be a vix
Flix podcast about the way in five minutes talking about
the weather.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's correct.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
This is I think one of the more weird moments
on the calendar where we just want fall to get
here so bad. So it's like you're starting to you know,
at this point, we're only like a week or two
away from pumpkin spice being available at star Bus. You're
thinking about.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Halloween as all right, decorations that's been out.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
The Halloween decorations are out in stores. People are starting
to put out their fall wreaths and stuff like that.
But it's still like one hundred degrees outside and you're
sweating and you get heat exhaustion trying to mold alawn.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, supposedly this week is supposed to be a relief
because it looks like it's in the eighties.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, which is going to feel like we need to
get our hoodies on.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Which then I'm thinking, is it going to really feel cooler?
Because it doesn't today, but it will lip yeah, but yeah,
it's been like feels like I don't know what was
last week, like one hundred and seven, it.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Got up to one hundred and eight. It got up
to one hundred and eight, feels like one hundred and eight.
And it's been persistent. We've approached a record number of
days spent above ninety degrees.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
And national it's been two or three weeks, right, it's.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Been Oh shit, at the time of.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
This recording, I mean middle of July, twenty.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Eight days in a row, if I'm not mistaken, Okay,
the record was thirty so by hey, by the time
this show is released.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, oh, we've broken that.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
We might have broken the record. Yeah, well I don't know,
because it's gonna dip down into the eighties.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'm gonna go ahead and say Tennessee is gonna break
that record.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
It sucks, man. This has been This has been one
of the hottest summers in a long time, and it's
also been one of the wettest summers.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, which I don't know how that you would think
we would get something out of it, but we haven't. No,
but I do like to use it as an excuse
to not mow my.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Grass every time I mow the lawn, it is like
mutant jungle grass that is thick, yeah, lush. Usually we
get around the fourth of July, like maybe the week
after or so, and you can mow the lawn and
effectively kill the grass and then you don't have to
mow it as often, right, Like I usually go from
mowing once every ten to fourteen days to mowing like

(03:52):
once every three weeks on the back half of summer. Yeah,
and it hasn't been the case. It's my backyard is
still somewhat green out there, and it sucks.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I'm told that you're supposed to mow, like I thought,
every two weeks. Then my one of my father in
laws told me, really, you should do it every week,
and I looked at him, like you can go to hell,
you go straight to hill.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
What was the reasoning for that? Do you know? Because
I've heard the same you told me.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
But I I truly just did not pay any attention
because I do it a week. So I think it's
because of like if you I think, given the conditions,
the thicker and then it's always wet even if it's
not like Yeah, And the thing is if you try

(04:43):
to mow in the morning, it's still wet and thick.
But then it's like, because it's almost always like that,
like if you just go but right underneath the top
blades of that grass, it's wet no matter what, like yeah,
and you would think it would be dry. But I
don't know, man, I guess I usually try to do mornings,

(05:03):
but I might be that like six o'clock.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, that's what That's what I had to do the
last time. And I'm usually like, I don't care. I'm
tougher than the sun. Whatever time I can do it,
that's what I'm gonna do it. I've mowed my lawn
at like two PM, the hottest time of the day,
and you just kind of power through and get it going.
But I don't know if it's my old age, it's
just that I've I've gotten out of shape or what.

(05:29):
But like I would get lightheaded out there. I think
that's when I thought, oh, next time I do this,
I better wait till it cools on.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I think the sun is hotter, yeah, and I think
we keep getting to these record highs and it's I honestly,
I have never wonted, but now now I'm afraid it's
gonna be hot in September. It's when I'm in the October,
and we won't even have fall until probably Thanksgiving, and

(05:57):
before you know it, we will have a day of
bring and it'll be hot as hell again in March
or April, and then eventually that's all it'll be.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah. Well I hope I die before that happens.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Also, that's why I want to move to New England.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah I could live, well, I think I can live
in Maine.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, I've never been to mass I don't.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Like the seasons because everything closes, but surely there's other things.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, you just I mean, see, here's the thing about
getting older is that I don't care. I'm talking like
we're like seventy years old, but.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
In a few years we're going to retire.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
And just turn thirty nine. But as you get older,
well I should say, as I've gotten older, I don't
want to speak for anybody else. I don't really want
to be around people that much anyway. It's not a
big deal to go out and party and have a
good time and night life and all that. I'm perfectly
content finding my recipes, going to get my groceries, coming home,

(06:57):
reading books, watching movies, watching sports, and just being a homebody.
So I think I think I could pull that off.
I went up to Rhode Island for a wedding. We
were up for the Fourth of July holiday. My birthday
was spent up there, and to get out of a
car in late June and have to put a hoodie

(07:17):
on because it was so chilly, I was like, man,
I could I could do this. And the air down
here is so thick that if you're the slightest bit asthmatic.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's just allergies Jesus.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
So to go up there and be able to breathe
it was beautiful.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah. I hate Tennessee too.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
I mean, to not turn the air on in the airbnb.
Were just open windows and let the breeze kind of
cool you off naturally. It was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I will say. When I went to Maine, it was
in October and it was right before they shut down
because they are seasonal. But man, it's exactly what you
And honestly, this is a nice segue because I I
know Halloween with Jamie Lee Curtis takes place in Illinois. Yeah,
but the way that it looks for Halloween is the

(08:08):
way main looks like the weather, the leaves. Yeah, everyone's decorating. Obviously,
Stephen King's from there, so it's a big thing with
him too. Yeah, but I loved it. I it was
so I was so swept up and like, oh man,
and like their little towns and they all got their
little like there's this old theater that looked really cool

(08:31):
that it was actually free. They were playing the Shining
You just bought popcorn and shirts or whatever. That's how
to make their money. But but you know the little
like like restaurants on the corner and bakeries and then
like but then you could go like twenty minutes and
it's a different one. We stand and keet a bunk port,
which was really it was a charming spot, and we
stayed right on the ocean and this like little like

(08:52):
I guess it's probably like a bed and breakfast, but
it was just a hotel, but it was only like
maybe had eight rooms.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Britt.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
I mean, my wife was sick the whole time because
she was pregnant. But but she was a trooper because
we went sailing and stuff. But I could I never
imagined like retiring, like you know, you always think, I
guess somewhere tropical or something. Then yeah, I went to Bane.
I told I told her, I'm like, when I get older,
I could do I think I could do this.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, that's my wife is Florida or bust. I mean
she is, She's from New Jersey. That is that true?
That is that Northeastern thing with all the snowbirds that
come down.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah. But I feel like, then just go to a
different country.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Then I'm like, I I boy, maybe Appalachicola, the Forgotten Coast. Yeah,
but I want some seasons, so I want to.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Go Christmas to feel like Christmas.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
I want to go up to the north. That's true
and retire because I've I've been down here and love this.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
I bet you could probably meet in the middle and
just do Gatlinburg.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Oh yeah, I'm sure that'll go over well. Uh so,
what have you been watching lately? What if it's been
a minute since week since we caught up.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I recently I watched together The Allison Breed. I always
want to say, James Dave Franko body horror comedy. It was.
It was. It was very entertaining. It is demented, it
is gross. But what it basically has to say as

(10:28):
far as like whether you're finding your soulmate and definitely
on codependency. But the path that it takes to kind
of hit these themes is yeah, I mean it's knucking futs,
but I like that one I have. I saw a
indie movie called Sorry Baby that has gotten a lot

(10:52):
of critical acclaim. Their name is Eva Victoria wrote and
directed its stars in it. The way that it's done
and the way that's edited, but it's really good. Basically,
what she refers to as is this very bad thing happening,
but the way that it is depicted is very heartfelt, empathetic.
It is funny, but it's also sort of like the

(11:16):
sort of like an Alexander Payne kind of like there's
not like these like belly laughs and everybody. It's just
these little things, especially even when you're talking about this
very bad thing. Really like that. That's probably one of
the best ones I've seen so far. I watched a
five hour oh my, that's right, document.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Doesn't matter what comes next five hours.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Well, it was actually done in two parts and they're
both about two and a half hours. But it was
the Billy Joel documentary that's on HBO Max Okay called
I Think It's in So It Goes, which is one
of his songs. I had no idea how many songs
I knew of his. I if you told me pick
Billy Joel, Elton John, I would say Elton John. I
only know Billy Joel's piano, man, and you had to

(12:03):
be a big shot. But watching it, and I mean
it spans everything, which I mean, honestly it should by
by five hours, but I have I have a newfound
appreciation and respect for that man. I had no idea.
But there's two songs that that I did not know
that he did. We Didn't Start the Fire. I had

(12:29):
no idea that was him. I actually had heard this,
but I just forgot that Billy Joel did write Shameless,
the one that Garth Brooks sings as well. Yeah, but
I have had the River of dream Song stuck in
my head ever since I watched it, and I have
watched that video several times. But as soon as I
heard in the middle, I'm like, that's Billy Joel. Yeah,

(12:50):
I had no idea. I had no idea. Man's been
through a lot, and actually he's just recovering, like from
a brain tumor or something.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
So it's a very prolific artist. I mean, there's a
reason that the man can still sell out Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Do you know when all that started, Like he had
that residency basically at Masters, but that before that he
had given he hadn't released an album since I think
ninety three or ninety four, and he thought he was done,
and then the Hurricane Sandy happened and it was that
special that twelve twelve twelve, and he went out there

(13:26):
and just did like four songs. And this guy and
I think he's the Rolling Stone music critic was like,
if you looked on social media, people were dogging all
these like old acts being like, I mean just laying
it on. He's like, but there was one person that
everybody was praising and loving and said he hadn't missed

(13:50):
a beat, and it was Billy Joel And then it
started a whole new thing of Masa Square guarding him
and Elton toured for I think he said, like fifteen years.
I I'm just amazed, Like that's to me, that's what
documentaries are about. When you could love Billy Joel and
you might know some you might know the songs, but
for me going in basically like like I said like,

(14:12):
you could have told me three songs and be like,
yeah it was. They've done such a good job that
Pee Wee Herman went. I watched I don't know a
few months back or whatever. That one was really good.
Some stuff just like that just would never be in theaters. Yeah,
so I'm really appreciative of some of that that they
can just sit there and do like a two part thing,

(14:35):
which I guess that's the new thing, because there's a
Steve Martin one on Apple that came out a year
ago that was in one of my top documentaries. But
they did it kind of like half and half of
early career and now Career. But but yeah, each it's
a two part Billy Joel and so it goes. But
they are both almost two and a half hours.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
I've been I wanted to catch up on Jamie Lee
Curtis's filmography a little bit.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, me too, Me too.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Got to watch Trading Places and a Fish called Wanda.
The first time I.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Rewatched True Lies. For the most part, I didn't get
around to True Lies. That's the one you still should see.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
It's one of her more critically acclaimed roles.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, she's great.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
After our Golden Globe. She got a nomination.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think it was at least a Golden Globe, and
people thought she really like should have gotten an Oscar
nominated for Supporting Actress. But she is great. She watch
that line of the emotional and also as this kind
of action comedy, but she really keeps that thing grounded
because I mean with Arnold and Tom Arnold, you know,

(15:38):
but Tom Arnold was actually kind of funny in this.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
I'll give him that, the great Tom Arnold wished to
watch one day, and here we are, all these years later,
we're still going.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah. I watched those. We watched Heat.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
We watched Heat recently in theaters, in theaters at the
Bell Court. There's a movie review rewind podcast episode on
Nashville Movie Dispatch for paid subscribers. If you're not a
paid subscriber, that episode will not be released until Thanksgiving Day.
A nice little treat for the regular subscriber.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah, I started the Phoenician scheme. I watched Black Bag.
There's another one from this year that I'm trying to
catch up on.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
You watch black Bag? Did you like black Bag?

Speaker 3 (16:24):
I liked Black Bag? Yeah, I thought it was pretty good.
It's probably very.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
It goes from one thing another. The two dinner scenes,
yeah are the best.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah. Fantastic Four, Superman, Well, we've we've talked about Superman.
I saw Fantastic Four and then excited and intrigued by
the Naked Gun. I guess it's a legacy sequel since
Liam Neeson is playing Frank Drug.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, I mean they're not ignoring that Leslie Nilsen's did
not exist, So I guess that's I guess I.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Never never seen the original, so I watched that as well,
and then all the drinking with episodes that are coming up,
and trying to catch up on those movies as well.
It's been busy, or and I watched Your Friends and
Neighbors the John Ham series on Apple Tea.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
I like that for the most part.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
I liked it up until the end. I felt like
it was in it was a really good, compelling series,
and I didn't. I didn't like the end. It felt
like think about it just kind of felt like we're
kind of wrapping things up a little too nice and neat,
and I don't feel like they're well.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
There are there's pieces of of that. It doesn't work
without the charm of John Ham.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, I would agree.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Uh, there is a season too, though.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
We're we're starting the studio and we're about three episodes
that one and it's really good.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
So that's a fun one. How they were able to
make that all work and get the people they were
on is incredible. I I still want to watch Smoke.
Oh yeah, Apple TV And apparently that's the it's from
the same guy that did Blackbird with tarn Egerton and
Paul Walter Houser, and so I'd like to that. And

(18:00):
Jason Momoa is in one called Chief of War. That's
Apple TV. Okay, I still want to see that, which,
by the way, Paul Walter Houser in the New Naked
Gun he's Moleman. He's Yeah, that was just get on
it son.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
And he's a and he's a wrestler too.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
And yeah I saw where he just I mean not
just did, but he wrestled somebody, didn't he like a
month or two ago. I remember thinking there's a picture
of him in his wrestling gear.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
He jumped off the ladder and threw a table. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
I just wonder when he does movies, does he just
not do that because you know, there's insurance stuff. Yeah, available.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
But he's also in one called Americana that comes out
at the end of this month that has a Sydney
Sweeney in and it looks like a Western.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Ooh do you think they do it?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh? I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Do you think they fuck?

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Let me tell you. I'm gonna try and get a
screener to that.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
All right. The reason Jamie Lee Curtis is our topic
of discussion today, if you guys are still with us, yeah,
is because Freakier Friday is out in theaters now.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
That would get a sequel.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Your your thoughts on that getting a sequel, because you're
picking up what I'm putting out.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
To It's it's totally unnecessary, it is, man, I I mean, hey,
what a comeback for low handed work for it is? Yeah,
I mean that's really who it's for. And I truly believe,
and I'm not saying I believe. She's even admitted that
she has tried. Jamie Lee Curtis has tried to get
a sequel off the ground. Really, but I think becoming

(19:31):
an Oscar winner is what actually got gave her a
little because I want to say, I even thought it
was supposed to be like a Disney plus thing, like
the fact that it's coming out in theaters. Yeah, in
the summer. I mean, obviously it's on the tail end.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
But still I am happy for Lindsay Lohan too, because
she's been on that run of like the hallmarky Christmas movie.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
You love her Netflix money. Yeah, and that's fine.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
It's it kind of feels like, Okay, maybe the general
movie going audience has gotten past forgiven her so to speak. Yeah,
and she's she's back to being a more beloved figure.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
So maybe she's parlaying that into a theatrical run with
the sequel, and who knows what comes of it. But
I will not see it. I could not care less
about this movie.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
I thought, I really thought about it, and I even thought, oh,
you know what, maybe this will be a good one
just to put on like cinema chronicles that I do,
you know, Yeah, yeah, last Monday of every month. But
I'll be on it. There are other things that are
out that just are more intriguing to me, and I think, yeah,
for better or for worse, what you see is what
you get. I don't think they're trying to reinvent the
wheel here. I don't even know if that first movie

(20:43):
was that good. I think maybe for what it was,
it is and maybe people will say this about will
say the same about this.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
At the time, I remember thinking it's not that great,
but it's enjoyable. It does kind of feel like a
Disney movie. Yeah, and I was seventeen.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Then, well, and this is a remake, like Freaky Friday
was a remake of an earlier movie. So I mean,
now I'm like, okay, Now it's like, I think there's
four people. There's Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, and then
I think her daughters. Anyway, they're and her friend or something.

(21:22):
I don't know. They all end up switching bodies. So
it's kind of like, hey, you know what we could
do instead of two people, let's have four people and
then we'll call it Freakier Friday. And and I think
the main thing is is that Jamie Lee Curtis once
again gets to play like she takes on one of
the young girls. And so you know, it's really a

(21:44):
showcase for probably her and Lindsay Lohan, and you know,
the comedy chops that both of them do have. I
mean they you know, I mean, they've shown it it's been.
We'll definitely get into Jamie Lee Curtis. She's certainly knows
how to do that.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, well, I'm and you're talking about a filmography that
spans forty seven years, prolific ton of credits, finally gets
the big one, wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress,
for Everything Everywhere, all at once, showing a little more
range than I think the start of her career allowed

(22:21):
her to do. But yeah, when you think of Jamie
Lee Curtis, what comes to mind?

Speaker 2 (22:28):
I think of Halloween.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
I do too, still, and despite the roles in recent
years that have kind of put her at another level,
I just think that that's still the calling card, that's
still top of mind.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
I think one, it's always in your consciousness because it
every year you are reminded. Well, yeah, he is basically
the first Scream Queen. Now, I don't really think of
any other Halloween movies she's in of the seventy eight
John Carpenters, Okay, okay, and listen, I'm she if she

(23:10):
heard this, I know for a fact, she could break
my arm in three places. But I don't really think
she's been in like that many good movies I think
she's been good in some movies.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yes, I think I would agree.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
There was a point where she was just kind of
getting the same old thing of like the quirky mom.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Well, she retired from acting in two thousand and six. Yeah,
and that lasted all of three years before she was back,
and there is a dry spell between in her filmography
where you're kind of watching it like, what is happening here?

Speaker 2 (23:50):
I know, I'm not even gonna mention titles. I will
say it when we when we get there, but there
are a lot of them where like I even watch some,
but it's not because they're like good movies. It's mostly
because they're around certain seasons.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
I would even argue that it is not until twenty
eighteen's how.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Halloween that she kind of Oh, I think that's a
lot I not. I don't know this, but I'm going
to go on a limb and say because of that
kind of legacy. Reboot was a huge box office and
critical success, that that's how she started getting I would

(24:32):
imagine at least maybe everything ever roll some was in
people's minds of what of the Jamie Lee Curtis that
I think everyone knew she could do it? But nobody
has seen that in a very long time. And I
think that's basically what you're getting at, is there's a
dry spill where you kind of forgot that, Like, oh yeah,
she's like she can actually do a whole lot more,

(24:55):
and she's I mean, she's proved it, but a lot
of people forgot.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
So let's go back to the beginning of her filmography.
The very first film credit she has is nineteen seventy
eight's Halloween.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Which, okay, I have to mention, I'm sorry, but she
she comes from a very two.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Very famous people, is that right?

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Her parents are Tony Curtis.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
So she's an EPO baby, so.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Something some like it hot? Right? And then Janet Lee
how about that? And for those that don't know Janet Lye,
she is the woman who is killed in the shower
in Psycho.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (25:36):
So yes, and she made it. She even made a
comment when she won the Oscar that she never thought
she'd be here, but they had never won. Yeah, and
so I thought that was kind of sweet. But but yeah, so, yeah,
she's an EPO baby.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
So Halloween. The iconic role of Lourie Strode kicks off
in nineteen seventy eight. She parlays that into a run
of horror films that includes nineteen eighties The Fog, nineteen
eighties prom Night, which to me, if it's not if
it's not Halloween, that's probably the horror performance that I
think a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
For prom Night. Yeah, yeah, I would think so. Yeah.
I don't even remember her in The Fog, but I
don't even know if I've seen that version a very
long time.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
And then Terror Train in nineteen.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Eighty as well, I have not seen that at all.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Eighty one, she's in an Australian thriller film called Road Games,
and the sequel to Halloween Halloween two nineteen eighty two
is she's an uncredited voice role in Halloween three, Season
of the Witch, but she's not actually in that one.

(26:44):
And then nineteen eighty three, we're talking five years after Halloween,
and this run of horror movies is when she does
Trading Places and we see a different kind of side
to Jamie Lee Curtis.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Oh, yeah, definitely. I think there's always kind of when
you've been around as long as she has, there's always
that movie that sort of has her breaking off from
what she was known for and being able to show
a whole different set of skills. And I would say

(27:19):
Trading Places would probably be it because she really was
relying on the horror genre and Halloween.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah for a little bit. Yeah, and Trading Places to
this day considered one of her more kindly reviewed movies.
I would say, yeah, pretty yeah, pretty popular. I watched
it for this podcast. I had never seen it before,
and I don't know if it's one of those things
like maybe just the Moment in Time nineteen eighty three,

(27:50):
This probably hits like crap, yeah, but and I think
it didn't do it for me.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
And I think there's real star power in the eighties
with Akroyd and Murphy than it is now, like when
you jet back watch it. I rewatched this as well,
and I did like Jamie Lee Curtis. I think we
both agree it's a little bit over the top, but
I mean she's she's really playing it up. But I
think that mean I would think that's on purpose. I mean,

(28:15):
just Dylan, you know, this is directed by John Landis
and Eddie Murphy. I mean, no one can go more
over the top than he can. But I actually found
this one refreshing because it's Eddie Murphy. That was young
and ambitious and but we talked about this before we started.
But yeah, there are some there are some things said

(28:36):
in that It's like, what what did he say? And
actually in one scene it shocks Eddie Murphy and I'm like, yeah, buddy,
I'm I'm shocked.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah. She would go on throughout the eighties to appear
in a series of like romantic movies, dramas, comedies, Love Letters,
Grand View, USA, The Adventures of Bucker Bonzai, Across the
Eighth Dimension, wahch was a bit of a cult film. Oh,

(29:06):
and then Perfect, which we've seen the clip of her
and John Travolta dancing in their workout gear. Oh yeah,
thrusting their pelvis. Yeah, that's been going viral on social media.
That's what that's I.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Did not know. That's what that movie was called.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Nineteen eighty five's Perfect, eighty seven She's in a Man
in Love, The Amazing Grace and Chuck Dominic and Eugene
and then eighty eight is what I would say is
considered one of her best performances in a fish called Wanda.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yes, I couldn't agree more. There is a lot of
things that I have either never seen or never heard.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Of heard of most of those.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
I couldn't even tell you a lot about Halloween two.
And because I don't, I rarely have ever watched those sequels.
In all honesty and prom night is it's of the time,
but it's not really like it's sort of more of
the same. Yeah, Like I mean, she's good in it.

(30:10):
But I think that's why Halloween will always just kind
of be up at the top. But yeah, I mean
and again, trading places. Again, it's a nice role. It
kind of you know, certainly shows a different side. But yeah,
I couldn't tell you about most of those, but I
can tell you I've watched A Fish called Wanda for
the first time before we did this. I really enjoyed

(30:33):
that that movie. The cast is great. I haven't I
don't think. I don't think Kevin klein Is has ever
been better. And I mean he's done some good stuff.
He's in Kate Blanchett limited series called Disclaimer that's on
Apple TV. It's directed by Fonseo Kuran who did Gravity
and Uh. But but he had he had he had

(30:57):
the best role, Like he had the juiciest role. But
I would say Jamie Lee Curtis would be a close second,
and what she was able to do and kind of
the seductor that she is, and I kind of love
the backstabbing and the it was it's a fun movie.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
It's funny to look at her in Knives Out having
not seen a fish called Wanda. Yeah, and then going
back and watching a fish called Wanda and it kind
of clicks. You're like, oh, yeah, this works her in
this style. Yeah yeah, yeah, And it's kind of kind
of interesting to look back on it through that lens.
But I did think she was really fun in this movie.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
She is.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
I thought the movie. The movie was a lot better,
one of those that, like you, you kind of hear
people talking about throughout the years. Yeah, never made time
to sit down and watch it, but I'm I'm glad
that I did because it was one that I think
really is an asset to her filmography. Okay, this is
a huge veal cap Oh.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, I own most would probably put that at the
very top. For me, Yeah, I really I really have
to rush more for sure.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
I don't know that I would disagree with that. Yeah,
with True Lies outstanding because I didn't get to go
back and watch that.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
But I would say a fish called Wanda and true lies.
Really I think is her like top tier?

Speaker 3 (32:20):
I mean I think you you look through the like
the first twenty years of her filmography, I think you
put Halloween in there too, and it's yeah, I think
those are the those are the pillars.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
So yeah, I think so.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
In nineteen ninety she does a film called Blue Steel,
which is also pretty well regarded reading through some of
her like.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Who's that with that is? I know it's a famous actor,
isn't it?

Speaker 3 (32:48):
No? It is?

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Is it her action?

Speaker 3 (32:50):
It is her action? Way she's the only actor on
the poster. Okay, all right, Blue Steel it is an
action thriller.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
So this is where like now she's starting to shift,
like from the comedies and dramas to like she's going
to be in the action in these action movies. Ninety
one she's in the ensemble Queen's Logic My Girl, which
I did not even realize she got. She was in
a film called Forever Young with Mel Gibson Elijah Wood.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
I remember that one.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Mother's Boys, My Mother's Boys. I don't remember that psychological
thriller with Jamie Lee Curtis and Peter Gallagher.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Oh, I never heard of that.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
My Girl too. There's a sequel apparently, and ninety four
was True Lies. And I'll pause there for this early
nineties run. Let you talk about Trump.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, I think it's a bit. I think it's a
it's a nice run. I mean, I don't I mean,
does the movie sound good. I don't quite remember her
like in My Girl.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Looking back at this run from A Fish Called Wanda
in eighty eight to True Lies in ninety four, does
that feel and granted we do have the benefit of hindsight,
does that feel like the time frame where this was
the springboard, like if she was going to kind of
eventually get into that upper echelon of names, this was

(34:15):
going to be the timeframe when she would do it.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yes. Yeah, And I think it's because A Fish Called
Wanda was such a success. Now Kevin Klein was the
only one nominated in that movie and he actually won,
but clearly big success, and she is very much a
part of that success. It wouldn't be as successful if
she wasn't in it. But yes, and I think if anything,

(34:42):
it was almost like it was a good step and
then True Lies could have been maybe the actual part
where that's where the springboard was, yeah, you know what
I mean, like this kind of got her to the
Arnold movie and and you know, she gets to have

(35:02):
fun too, she gets in on the action. But you know,
for anybody that hasn't seen it or doesn't remember, she
basically is is Arnold's wife. He has not told her
what he really does, and so she kind of just
feels stuck in place and not nothing exciting is she

(35:22):
kind of wants She kind of wants that excitement in
her life. And there are two scenes I think one
everybody knows, which is the dance that she does, and
she doesn't know that Harry played by Arnold is the
guy that has brought her here to do it. This
is where things really kind of everything kind of is

(35:47):
you know, unveiled, and she realizes, oh, this is what
he's been doing. But he thinks that she's having this
affair with this guy who's pretending to be a spy
who really isn't. He just takes advantage and uh makes
up stories, but he's actually used cars salesman and his
name is Simon played by the wonderful Bill Paxton. And

(36:07):
and then Arnold is a guy lying about not being
a spy when he really is, and his sidekick Tom Arnold,
which how could you not.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
So?

Speaker 2 (36:18):
But the dance scene, which is good, but there's a
lot of this kind of comedy where she like falls
off the posters one where she's walking in heels to
the room and she's supposed to be this spy. She
thinks she's been recruited, but this has all been a
thing done by Harry, and so there is this very
I mean, there's this sexiness and silliness to it that
I feel like only Jamie Lee Curtis could really do.

(36:39):
And you can also believe because I think she really
can kick some ass. But the part that I did
forget is before that when she is being interrogated by
Harry and uh, I don't even I forgot Tom Arnold's
character's name. But anyway, there, there and and and that's
when she kind of where they're like, you know, he's

(37:01):
trying to get to the bottom and she's really had
this fair which she hasn't slept with him, she hasn't
done any of that, but she really like opens up
and lets her soul and like what she's been wrong,
you know, how she's felt and kind of being the
mom at home and you know, kind of thinking, you
know what's out there, and you know she wants a

(37:23):
little thrill and which kind of leads him down this
path on why he kind of does this whole recruitment
thing and stuff. But it is kind of emotional because
he's like, do you still love your husband? And she's like, yeah,
I always haven't always will and you know, but and
I think as you get older and you kind of
hear this confession, you're like, I think we've all kind

(37:43):
of been there where you kind of just think it's
just a monotonous routine life and what, you know, what
can I do? And then if you're of a certain
age and it's you know, I would imagine especially like
for a woman, and you know, and then of course
not knowing the line of work her husband's in, but anyway,
credit to her, and honestly, I kind of see where
I kind of feel like a supporting actress nomination would

(38:06):
have been. That should have been the first one.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
She got a Golden Globe for it.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yeah, I mean it's not that, you know, so I
I kind of feel like that's where we could have
at least nominated her for that, But she brings so
much to a movie that I think is a lot
of machoism. I mean, it's directed by James Cameron, it's
got Arnold in it, but she has she brings such

(38:32):
this delicate balance of a character that which I mean,
listen to credit to the to the film itself really
has her like as a full, like developed character. Yeah,
that has her own issues and things. And again, it

(38:54):
wouldn't it wouldn't be the the cool movie that it
is with Alder It's a ninety four Arnold action movie.
But she brings, she brings some kind of level headed,
groundedness to it that that's where that emotion is, and
that's where the heart of it is is really their marriage.

(39:14):
So I was happy to watch that again, It's been
a long time.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
So then she closes out the nineties with House Arrest
in ninety six, Fierce Creatures.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Which is is it sort of a sequel to a sequel.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
To a fish called Wanda? Homegrown in ninety eight, which
is a dark comedy drama thriller starring Billy Bob Thornton,
John Lithgow, and Hank's Area. Oh so okay, she reprises
her role as Lorie Strode and Halloween h two O
twenty years later and she's in a film called Virus
in ninety nine.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Sort of remember them and.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Don't. I don't know, man, I don't know about this
run here.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Yeah, I think it's all fairly forgettable.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
You had something go with that eighty eight to ninety four.
Just looked in her like history section on Wikipedia. There's
nothing about like why this happened. Maybe just not the
best choices.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah, I mean I kind of feel like maybe she
just kind of went with her gut and a lot
of these just didn't really make an impression at the
I'm gonna assume at the box offics because I don't
some of those I don't even know. Yeah, what was
the I would like to sort of watch Fierce Creatures
just to see, Yeah, those characters, I don't have a

(40:37):
I have a pretty good feeling it didn't measure up
to a fish called Wanda. Think the comparisons obviously are
are there.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Yeah, I mean it has John Cleeese, Jamie Lee, Curtis,
Kevin Klein, they're all back for it.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Yeah, So I don't.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
That makes you wonder why hasn't that been Like I
actually forgot about that movie entirely, much less that it
actually was something for a fish called Wanda. Yeah, there
was one that.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
You said not virus homegrown?

Speaker 2 (41:06):
No, what was another one? What was the one like
the one on Yes, I do remember that one, and
I remember thinking that that one was pretty good. But
I haven't seen that in a long time either.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
Yeah. Uh. In two thousand, she kicks off the New
Millennium and drowning Mona.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Oh yes, Middler, and that was a.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Real twenty nine percent from the critics.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
I was going to say, it was what you might,
for lack of a bit of word kooky.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
Yeah. Yeah. She's in the Tailor of Panama, which I
have never seen. Pierce Brosnan, Jeffrey rush I picked that
up from danger Zone video one weekend when I was
there because it was just a couple bucks, and I
was like, how have I never heard of this movie?
I love Pierce Brosnan, had no idea Jamie Lee Curtis

(41:58):
was even in it, but apparently I.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Remember thinking it was it was pretty good, but I
don't I don't really remember her being in it.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
She's in an American comedy drama written, directed by, and
starring Billy Bob Thornton called Daddy and Them.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
I do remember that one that.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Also stars John Prine, Laura dern Andy, Griffith ben Affleck,
Kelly Preston, and Jim Varney.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
It's a very Southern film. And he was just talking
to Kathy Bates about this movie when they did their
Variety Actors on Actors for their TV. Because he's in
land Man, is it land Man?

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Yeah, But I do remember seeing but it it kind
of has that feel of sling Blade, you know, like that.
I mean, he's telling stories that I think a lot
of people couldn't do, couldn't write about that he can.
I don't think it did anything for anybody, but you know, hey,

(43:02):
this is Billy Bob Thornton in his OSCAR nominated day.
So get in there, Get in there.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
She is Laurie Strode once again in two thousand and
two's Halloween Resurrection.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
It seems like we keep coming back to Halloween for like, yeah,
I guess, and maybe part of it is the love
of that franchise.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Maybe because they do pay her way more money than
other stuff. I'm not sure. But again, Halloween h two
I kind of remember because I remember Josh Hartnett was
her son, and the Resurrection was the big deals because
she actually dies in it. She gets killed at the beginning,
but as you can see, no one gave a shit
and no one cared.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
So yeah, she is in Freaky Friday in two thousand
and three, which I would say it was a pretty
big relation.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Yeah, that meant something.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
That probably put her on the map for a new generation. Yes,
I agree, potential, and.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
I think this is what leads to these other movies.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
I was just about to say the same thing to
thousand and four is she parlays Freaky Friday into Christmas
with the Cranks.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Right, which I think that is single digit.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
Yeah, it is not a I haven't watched it in
a long.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Time, so I watch I own. I think I put
this on every year during the holidays, and it is
not a good movie.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
I remember liking it in two thousand and four as
a Christmas movie.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Here's the thing. It has its moments on Rotten Tomatoes,
it has its moments, but it really is such a like,
badly done movie, and like it's not really that funny,
and I I like, I'd probably say I like her
the best. Tam Allen is okay, I guess, but I

(44:45):
and it does kind of have that same kind of
feel of like a freaky like a Freaky Friday type.
But it's it's very Yeah, I mean it's very hokey
and it's very you know how like sometimes it's stupid
can be fun. This isn't it.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
She she's in The Kid and I in two thousand
and five starring Tom Arnold.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
And that is here we go reunite.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
That is when her her little break comes for a
few times.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
I see why that break came.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Now puts acting behind her.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Five percent on Rotten Tomatoes and a Tom Arnold movie.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
And then she comes back for two thousand and eights
Beverly Hills, Chihuahua.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Oh, that's what got her out of retirement.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
From there, boys, from there, I think she is one
of the human She's one of the humans. Yeah. And
then she goes on a run that includes some voice rolls.
I'm just gonna rattle these off from twenty ten to
twenty seventeen or twenty fifteen. I'm sorry you again. The

(45:56):
Little Engine that Could from Up on Poppy Hill, Bonica
Mars Just the film adaptation of the or film based
off of the show spare parts and that's it.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
You again is the one I think with her and
Kristen Bell.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Kristen Bell Weaver, wh Yeah, Betty White's in it.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yeah, that's one that I think I even maybe have
a review on Sobro's network about. But anyway, it's not good. Yeah,
So like, but is that how she got Veronica mars.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Am Kristen Bell. Yeah, I mean it just that's a run.
That's a run of movies.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
I mean, it's a job, pays the bills. Yep.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Then in twenty eighteen we get the Halloween reboot and
now we're back.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
I mean to me like this, Now, wait a minute,
where is those active Octavia commercials?

Speaker 3 (46:52):
They're sprinkled throughout, Okay, sprinkled throughout. She's in a film
called An Acceptable Law, a political thriller. I don't remember
that one, Yeah, I don't. But then we go to
Knives Out in twenty nineteen, which she was awesome.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Ye I loved her in that.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Halloween Kills and then Everything Everywhere all at once and
Halloween ends both in twenty twenty two. She's in the
Haunted Mansion reboot in twenty twenty three, and in twenty
twenty four, Borderlands, one of the worst movies I've said.
It's like she can't help her.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
She can't. I think she thinks this will be fun,
and maybe it is. It's just it's just what happens
is once that's made, the fun is over.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
She's in The Last show Girl in twenty twenty four
as well.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Yeah, she was pretty good in that one, Pamela Anderson.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
And that gets us to freak your Friday. In twenty
twenty five, she's also a producer on the next Paul
Greengrass movie, The Lost The Lost Bus.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Oh yeah, that's got Matthew McConaughey and America for Era.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Yeah, so she's a producer in that. And then she's
in a film called a comedy drama called Ella McKay
that has Woody Harrelson, Kamil Nanjianni Okay, Rebecca Hall.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
And well good for her. Yeah, so I must say
shout out to her on The Bear.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
I was about to say, like the TV filmography is
probably not the best either, but recent years she is
known for her appearance on The Bear.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
So I will say the Halloween twenty eighteen is the
best of the Halloween reboot. I think they each got
a little worse. Maybe I would agree with that for sure,
a little worse. But I see you you kind of
want to see that through. Yeah, so I understand then.
I liked her and knives out. It's a great ensemble

(49:00):
and to be a part of the first one. I
thought she did a great job. I thought it was
really cool to see her as one of the main
players in that one. Everything everywhere, all at once. I mean,
I think is what a lot of people probably remember.
I mean, if not just for the performance, but for
the look.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
I just am surprised that she went all the way
to the Oscars with that one and that's her only nomination.
I mean, she did win, But then I mean, I'm sorry,
but I feel like there's other stuff she could have
been nominated for, well.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Like true Lies all the way back in the nine.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
So I'm wondering, is this like a I kind of
saw it as like a legacy Oscar, like thanks for
being here for this many decades. Here you go.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Well, I was going to ask you about that because
it did kind of feel like there was a bit
of con I don't want to say controversy. I don't
think that's necessarily the right word, but I don't. I
don't feel like people. I think a lot of people

(50:06):
had the opinion that this was a lifetime achievement sort
of thing.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
I think.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
So there was a little bit of backlash because a
lot of people thought Angela Bassett should have won for
for Black Panther. Yeah, you remember, Oh gosh, who was
it that went on stage and said something about it?
I can't remember. Was it Jonathan Majors.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yeah, she did. He did say something. I think him
and Michael B. Jordan we're up together and he said
that you're our queen or something like that.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
Yeah, so you know, it's it was. I remember it
being a little awkward that night.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Well, I think they, I mean I think she. I
think she thought she was gonna win, like ye, Angela Bassett. Yeah,
And honestly, that performance is more deserving. That performance alone
is more deserving than the everything everywhere, all at once performance.
If you're you're supposedly only voting on the two performances
in these two films.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Yeah, I thought Carrie Condon was better too.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
I wish Carrie I would have voted for her, But
I love Banshees. That was my number one of the year.
But but then it's also like you can't root against
Jamie Lee Curtis either. So I mean I guess that's
it and think.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
It's still not her fault that people voted.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
And can I just say through the years, I think
she's just kind of like I feel like she's just
one of the real ones. Yeah, Like she just says
how it is, and you know, she did that thing
on the magazine cover something and she like showed her
body for what it was and it was a big
deal back then, or she wasn't hiding because you always
talked about how they always you know, you had to

(51:41):
do this and you hid this, and like here I am.
And so I mean I feel like she's in a
way like for many I don't. I mean, obviously we
know her as an actress, but I I think she's
kind of done a lot for the industry because she
was born into it. She's mayor to Christopher Guest for
I don't know how many years, who's done all these

(52:03):
best in Show Mighty Wind, all those so so parts
of me just feels like there was other things at
play where they're like, Okay, this seems not because it
does seem to where like I just think like Christopher Plumber,
for instance, right, he was in Knives Out, and you
know he won for beginnings. It feels like the supporting

(52:25):
things are most sometimes given to the later people that
are kind of seasoned. Yeah, and maybe this is a
good way to honor them. So I don't know. I
think there's I think there's true of that. But I
don't mind her getting nominated. I was just kind of
surprised she actually did. But I think she won a Baptist.

(52:45):
She won something right before the Oscars, and then people
are like, oh, I think she's probably gonna get it,
but it may have still been a toss up, but
she did win something like right before they were gonna
do the Oscars.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
She's a bit of a renaissance woman as well. She's
authored fourteen children's books. Yeah, she wrote a graphic novel
and was it actually Mother Nature? It looks like I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
So I also kind of feel like she.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
She has an invention. She has a patent in her name,
a modification of a diaper with a moisture proof pocket
containing wipes that can be taken out and used with
one hand.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Okay, I think I know why she took a break
from acting. She's like, you know what, I actually can
do other shit. I think I can make even more
off of this.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
She was a blogger for The Huffington Post from twenty
eleven to twenty seventeen. She's launched a couple of podcasts.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
God, so she actually hasn't quit anything.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
No, I mean she's moving.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
She is.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
When you think of the term artist, she's an artist.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah she is.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Let's take a look at some of her award history.
She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Everything, Everywhere,
All at Once, and she was nominated for She's got
four BAFF denominations, all for acting.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
She win one.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
She won Best Actress in a Supporting Role in nineteen
eighty four for Trading.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Places, Oh Wow.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Okay, And she was nominated for Best Actress in a
Leading Role for a Fish called Wanda.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
And then she was back in the supporting role twenty
twenty three and twenty twenty five for Everything, Everywhere, All
at Once and The Last Show Girl.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Yeah, some people thought she might get in with The
Last Show Girl, which which I.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
Don't know.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
It was fine. I don't know what it was fine,
but it was. But you know, sometimes you're on their
mind when you just won one, and then if it's
a different category, that tends to happen.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
I see, oh that was the supporting run last year
was Zoe Saldana and then Elia Perez. Yeah yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
But yeah, well good for BAFTA for Lisa Fish called
Wanda good and I'm shocked. She won for Supporting Actress
for Trading Places.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
She has a couple of Critics Choice nominees for Everything Everywhere,
All at Once, and then knives out for Best Acting Ensemble.
She's technically a part of that. She won an Emmy
for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for The Bear.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Yeah I thought she want Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
She has a couple of a couple of Golden Globes
for Best Actress in a Television Series for Anything but
Love in nineteen ninety and then the Golden Globe for
True Lies in ninety five. She's nominated for a Grammy
as well, My God Best Spoken Word Album for Children

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in two thousand and three. She's got a couple of
SAG Awards for Actress in a Supporting Role and Outstanding
Cast in a Motion Picture for Everything Everywhere.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
It must have been the sag Awards she won before
she got the Oscar. Yeah, and then she's basically has
been nominated for everything except to Tony Yeah. Yeah, because
that E got is real close.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Like I said, a real renaissance woman. But if you
if you had to.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Thank God, she's not judged just on our movie roles,
because Borderlands was one of the worst movies I saw.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Thank goodness, we just close our eyes and look away
from that spell from twenty ten to twos right, that's right.
If you if you were to put together a mount
Rushmore for Jamie Lee Curtis.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Could you do it? I think so. I think you
could do Halloween.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
I think you could do two Halloween's.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Honestly, you could. You really could. True Lies and a
fish called Wanda, and I yeah, I could put everything
everywhere all at once, because it is such a different
role and it is to stand out in a movie
like that does mean something. And it was a total

(57:06):
I mean sometimes I really like just the risk of
just really changing it up to the kind of movie
you're in too, the kind of like the look of
your character. So I mean, and I mean it garnered
some award attention obviously, so I would probably put the
original Halloween, Everything Everywhere, all at once, and then a

(57:31):
fish called Wanda, and True Lies. It would be in
the middle of kind of this long stretch of a career.
I think I could. I could those four. I feel like,
show everything that she could ever offer in a role.
And there were so many layers to each of those,
and that I'm sure required totally different stuff. And I

(57:54):
mean Halloween and seventy eight and everything everywhere all at once.
In twenty twenty three, obviously she's not you know, that's
a different woman from one to the other.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
But so yeah, I having not seen True Lies makes
this kind of complicated. So I do think I'm gonna go.
I think I'm gonna go Halloween nineteen seventy eight. I'm
gonna go a fish called Wanda. I think I'll also
go Everything Everywhere all at once, and then without having
seen True Lies, I think I would go with Knives Out.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
I really liked her in that movie.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
I that was a close one too. Sometimes I guess
because and again it's maybe it's just I'm making it.
I'm fear when it's such an ensemble, it's a little
tougher because sometimes I just go straight to that performance,
and so yeah, I think I think True Lies, I
think you would find a spot for it just because

(58:51):
of the way that I guess, especially in the nineties
and especially the guys that are doing like she really
holds her own, but a lot of times it's she's
she's offering up something that no one else in that
movie can can give you. Yeah, yeah, So I'll be
interested once you see it, because I mean, it's a
fun movie, but she is such she's so crucial to

(59:15):
that story that Yeah, like I said, if she got
Supporting actress got nominated for that, I the biggest shocker
to me is that she's just had never been nominated
before at all for an oscar.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Yeah, not even nominated, right, So was kind.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Of fact that this was like a one and done.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
I think, be curious, Uh, we're already up against the
time here for this episode, but I would be curious
to go back and look at the fields in years
when like True Lies was released a fish called Wanda,
especially yeah, trading places well and especially with.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
A fish called Wanda, because Kevin Klein did get nominated,
So was it a weaker field and Best Supporting Actor? Like,
I don't know how you he gets. I understand why
he nominated, why he's nominated.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
It was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
I'm just kind of surprised that Jamie Lee Curtis no
one felt room for her because I don't think either
one works that well without the other. I don't know.
I'd be curious too.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
It's going to do it for us today. Any parting thoughts,
This has been a really.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Good I think we kind of just nailed this down
like a week or so ago. But I'm glad we
did it because she is The filmography is quite a
roller coaster ride with maybe not as many highs as
you would think, but I will say she has done
a lot and some of those films that we named
our I mean, like you said, those are real pillars

(01:00:41):
and kind of what people would consider to be some
of the best I think performances, especially by an actress
and especially during those times. And it all started with
a little Halloween movie. Is damn impressive. So good for her,
Not that she needs my approval, but good for her.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
Well said, well, that's going to do it for us
today on the Vicks Flicks podcast. As a reminder, you
can check out all of our work at Nashville moovidispatch
dot substack dot com. He's Brandon, I'm stony, and until
next time, you stay classy moviegoers,