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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Emma Brockes

‘Generations of women have been disfigured’: Jamie Lee Curtis lets rip on plastic surgery, power, and Hollywood’s age problem

Portrait of Jamie Lee Curtis in a tartan jacket with her hands on her hips and sporting a huge pair of plastic red lips
‘The wax lips are my statement against plastic surgery’: Jamie Lee Curtis, photographed in Los Angeles last month. Photograph: Mary Rozzi/The Guardian

I’m scheduled to speak to Jamie Lee Curtis at 2pm UK time, and a few minutes before the allotted slot I dial in via video link, to be met with a vision of the 66-year-old actor sitting alone in a darkened room, staring impassively into the camera. “Morning,” she says, with comic flatness, as I make a sound of surprise that is definitely not a little scream.

Oh, hi!! I say, Are you early or am I late?

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