Jamie Lee Curtis Reveals the ONE Item She Kept From Halloween
It's hard to genuinely judge the Halloween franchise will extremity for bully with Halloween Ends.
But for now, astatine least, Laurie Strode is implicit it and acceptable to spell down with the vessel if that means vanquishing Michael Myers for good.
"They didn't notation a trilogy, they mentioned 1 movie," Jamie Lee Curtis told E! News successful July about agreeing to revisit her iconic final miss role successful 2018's Halloween—a direct-ish sequel to the 1978 archetypal of the aforesaid sanction that begs audiences hide the seven films (not including the Rob Zombie-directed 2009 remake and sequel) released successful the interim.
Contractual minutiae aside, "that was a precise freeing experience," Curtis continued, crediting manager David Gordon Green's attack down the camera—and the film's unequivocal fiscal success—for jolting her ain originative tone backmost to life. "Getting a sensation of the mode David worked was similar [remembering], 'Oh, s--t! This is fun!'"
Theatergoers surely appreciated it, scaring up $256 cardinal astatine the worldwide container office. So she dutifully reteamed with Green for 2021's Halloween Kills and now is back—four years aboriginal for Laurie successful the cinematic timeline—for Halloween Ends.
But portion moneymaking titles, overmuch similar fearfulness movie villains, are hard to kill, this is astatine slightest seems to beryllium the expansive finale for our heroine.
"I had not wanted to mentally deliberation astir it. Then each of a abrupt I started truly reasoning astir it," Curtis said of playing Laurie for the past time, speaking with E! a week before Halloween Ends' Oct. 14 release of playing Laurie for the past time. "Saying goodbye to Laurie Strode, to accidental goodbye to the fans who emotion Laurie Strode" and to countless others who've been indispensable to this journey, "I've gotten truly utilized to it. And it's going to beryllium sad. I warrant you, extremity of adjacent week, possibly implicit the weekend, there's going to beryllium a time wherever I'm conscionable going to beryllium a puddle."
Meanwhile, we dealt with the extremity of an epoch by diving into the bowels of Haddonfield lore to research however the Halloween franchise came to beryllium and why an as-yet unstoppable man-demon successful coveralls and a achromatic disguise has been handily terrifying radical for 44 years. Here's what we recovered out:
Halloween Ends is successful theaters and streaming connected Peacock.
(E! and Peacock are some members of the NBCUniversal family.)