Jamie Lee Curtis is well known for playing Halloween’s Laurie Strode, one of the greatest horror characters ever. But before that, she may have played another iconic horror character where she would have had to spider crawl, vomit, curse, and levitate under devil possession. Yes, Curtis could have starred in The Exorcist, and she talks about being fortunate that her mother closed the door on that audition as a kid.
Before battling Michael Myers, Jamie Lee Curtis’ very first IMDB credit was at about 18 years old on an 1977 episode of Quincy, M.E. The Freaky Friday actress revealed on The Drew Barrymore Show that she could have been a child star after being offered a shot at one of the best horror films of all time, and why she didn’t take it:
