Striking fear in the hearts of audiences for more than 44+ years. The Halloween franchise has become a cult classic and a staple during the spooky season.
Spawning novels, comic books, a video game, and countless collectibles. The beloved franchise has become a feature in mainstream media. Sadly, however, all things must end, at least as far as Jamie Lee Curtis’s involvement in the series.
The iconic actress sat down with Jon Stenvall to talk about the franchise’s legacy and her final fight with Michael Myers. Click on the video below to watch the full interview.
Being Lori Strode
Whether they are 18 or 80, fans of the acclaimed series have always been able to connect and relate to Lorri Strode and Curtis explains why.
“Well at this point now, I have become Lori Strode. Jamie and Lori have become intertwined. She is less a character than she is a facet, really a manifestation of me but we are linked, you cannot pull us apart. I think back in 1978 she was a character, Jamie was the flirty kind of promiscuous 19-year-old and Lori playing a character like Lori felt very much like acting to me. Because Lori represented all the things that she represents, courage and tenacity and perseverance and intelligence and quick wit and quick mind, and true bravery in the face of this horrific onslaught,” said Curtis
“Those qualities have sort of caught up to me and now as a public person, those are the qualities you would say about me because I am public as an outspoken person I am brave, I’ve talked about hard things, I try to relate to people and I think that that impossibility of separating us has now meant that even an 18-year-old can come into this and get some version of that,” she added.
Curtis goes on to say “And I think at the end of the day, it’s because what I try to do is tell the truth and I think there’s some truth to it all, there’s some integrity of truth to it…Lori is the sort of representation of surviving. I think because Lori understands that everybody has suffered I talk about it all the time that ever and not just not women it’s humans we have all persevered through things and so Lori is this ultimate survivor (who) represents for all of us the possibility that you can get through anything.”
The Final Cut
For the most part, filming a final scene in a movie can be an emotional experience for an actor. However, since Curtis has played Lori Strode for so long the veteran actor explains why sometimes it takes time to say goodbye.
“The emotions came it wasn’t about the scene, the scene was really quite benign but the big emotions will come when this whole thing is finished and I am back home and I have hung up my bell bottoms. Where they are just truly, I’m putting them into deep storage, at that moment it will really hit me what saying goodbye to Lori means,” said Curtis.
“For me, in the practical moment of that final moment, it was less about Lori than it was about my crew, my collaborators, the people, and the fans, the people that love her I was saying thank you and goodbye to and that was powerful.”
In Halloween Ends, Lori Strode writes a memoir to help her cope with the tragic events of her life throughout the series. Curtis explains to Stenvall why she would never do the same to encapsulate her time with the franchise.
“Lori is writing it as a way to try to figure out her life, why did this happen, and what did it all mean and it’s a tool to talk about an inner life. I’ve been talking about my life publicly for a very long time and I think you guys know everything there is to know about me.”
Halloween Ends starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Will Patton, Rohan Campbell, and Kyle Richards releases in theaters and on the Peacock on October 14, 2022.
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