Jamie Lee Curtis was 19 when she became world famous from the low budget production “Halloween”. Now the twelfth part of the series is coming to the cinema. Time to ask: what makes this horror successful? A conversation about human abysses and the art of screaming.
Interview by
David Steinitz
Jamie Lee Curtis got up early for the interview; in Los Angeles it is six in the morning at the start of the video interview. The 62-year-old actress is still in a good mood. She has made some comedies such as “A Fish Named Wanda”, but she became famous above all for the horror film “Halloween”, which was so successful that there are now twelve sequels. The latest is called “Halloween Kills” (release date: October 21). The only problem: Jamie Lee Curtis doesn’t like horror films in his private life. She says.