Jamie Lee Curtis’ life would look a lot different, both in Hollywood and at home, if it weren’t for the “Halloween” franchise, she said in an essay written for People ahead of this week’s release of the 13th and final installment, “Halloween Ends.”
“I am trying to figure out how to say goodbye to Laurie, who has taught me the meaning of the words ‘resilience,’ ‘loyalty,’ ‘perseverance’ and ‘COURAGE.’ I also need to say thank you,” wrote Curtis, 63, who has played Laurie Strode since the initial “Halloween” in 1978. “Everything good in my life can be traced back to Laurie. I was with the writer of the original ‘Halloween’ when I saw my husband of 37 years for the first time.”
Curtis recalled in 1984 when she was with the late Debra Hill — who co-wrote the iconic horror flick with director, then-boyfriend John Carpenter, and whose hometown of Haddonfield, N.J., served as the inspiration for the name of the all-but cursed town in “Halloween” — and saw writer-director Guest in Rolling Stone in a story about his then-new mockumentary, “This is Spinal Tap.”
