Jamie Lee Curtis grew up in the arms of the film royal family, with her father being screen idol Tony Tony Curtis and her mother, actress Janet Leigh, famously starring in Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Psycho."

Still, she said she never thought she would become an actor.

"My life depends on seconds," said Curtis, 66.

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Curtis plans to become a policeman. However, when he came home from college, a friend convinced Curtis to attend the Universal Studios audition.

"I did the scene," Curtis said. "And I was like, 'Oh, OK. Very good. Thanks. 'I said, "Listen, if that's going to be solved, I need to know because I'm going to go back to college, like two days."

She received a seven-year contract the next day and resigned from college. Curtis booked the 1978 horror movie Halloween almost immediately. She is played by Laurie Strode, a book babysitter who is intimidated by a ruthless killer named Michael Myers.

Curtis admits that her mother's role in "Psycho" may have played a role in the actor's decision, but he says it was her audition that made her the lead in the first feature film of all time.

"It's a $300,000 horror movie. It's not the job that many people want," she said.

"Halloween" ended up earning over $70 million in box office and becoming a classic, but did not fully kick off Curtis's career.

Jamie Lee Curtis considers her breakthrough role

After booking “Halloween,” Curtis is on “Love Boat” with his mother who plays her mother. Curtis went on to star in Halloween II and other horror movies including "The Fog", "The Horror Train" and "The Night of the Prom".

She became the screaming queen of this generation, but it was her first comedy, “The Place of Trade,” directed by John Landis, which Curtis said did kick off her career. In it, she holds herself next to Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, playing the wise, kind street walker.

"It's crucial, and it's going to be a work," Curtis said. "If I'm not in the 'trading place, John Cleese wouldn't write 'a fish called Wanda' for me. If I'm not in the 'a fish called Wanda', Jim Cameron wouldn't write 'real lies' for me. Of course, those movies gave me my career.

Perfect

By the mid-1980s, Curtis was working on the movie Perfect with John Travolta. From everyone's perspective, from every perspective, she is. Curtis plays a cardio coach.

"Of course, I look really good," she said. "Believe me, I saw enough photos in that leggings, even where I went, 'Really? Come on.'"

But she said a photographer who worked on the film criticized her appearance. She was 25 years old and he called her loose eyes and refused to shoot her.

She said: “It’s embarrassing to let him say it’s.

Curtis then started taking painkillers.

"I was very obsessed with the warm bath of opium and drank a little - never overdoing it, never having any big public demonstrations, very quiet, very private about it, but certainly would become a dependency," she said.

Curtis said she had been awake for 26 years.

60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi asked Curtis if she was worried that sharing her addiction story would affect her career.

"I think I'm more worried that selling yogurt will make you sh** affect my career than letting me admit I'm addicted," Curtis said. "I made a joke. It's a funny joke. But it's true."

Curtis's Family

That yogurt ad, which was later imitated by "Saturday Night Live", was not her only ad. Curtis is one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, making about $400 million in “True Lies” and also creating ads for pantyhose and car rentals.

"In most cases, they allowed me to stay at home with my kids," Curtis said. "I'm an imperfect mom because a mom without a job is perfect."

Curtis has two children with Christopher Guest, and the actor and director is known for "This is the Spine Tap." They have been married for more than 40 years.

"My mother got married four times. My father got married five times. That was nine times," Curtis said. "My stepfather married three. So I came from a twelve marriages. So my joke, 'I'm still married to my first husband, 'You know, it's important for me to marry my husband, and he's my husband."

Curtis's comeback

Once their kids grow up, Curtis engages in a carpool obligation to unduly advance his career. Curtis now runs his own production company Comet Pictures, which is on the TV series Scarpetta, starring Nicole Kidman and a feature film about the catastrophic paradise wildfire in 2018, called The Lost Bus.

She has written more than a dozen best-selling children's books, including some, and runs her own charity called "My Hands," which has raised more than $1 million for Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. Curtis donated a million dollars to the recent wildfires, which destroyed much of Altadena and Pacific Palisades, including her home in the filming of the millennial hit single "Freaky Friday" and the upcoming sequel "Freakier Friday."

Forty years after the first “Halloween,” she finally rested that franchise with “The End of Halloween.”

But it's a series of raw, fragile characters that appear in Curtis in her 60s, even if she never imagined it, leads to a comeback, playing an aging waitress in "The Last Singing Girl," or taking oxygen out of the kitchen as a usable female teacher Donna Berzatto's "Bear" in the Hulu TV series.

"I've been waiting for Donna all my life, patiently, and quietly cooking. My own creative spiritual life, myself, you know, my own alcoholism," Curtis said. "It's so beautifully written that you don't have to do anything."

In the mystery of 2022, some of the mind-boggling "One Omnipresence" that Curtis can't recognize, just like the stubborn bureaucrat Deirdre Beaubeirdre. Performance Win an Oscar - Neither of her parents won, although both of them were nominated for the award.

"You know, I want to go beyond my parents, I have my parents emotionally. I've been awake to my parents. My mother is limited by what the industry wants and expects her to allow her. My mother will hate 'The Last Showgirl' because I show my true condition," Curtis said. “So I don’t want to say, I have beyond them, but I have freedom.”

The morning after the Oscar win, this freedom is being displayed. A photographer asked Curtis to recreate a photo of actress Faye Dunaway and her statue. Curtis agrees that there is a condition.

"I said to him, 'Yes, but I'm not going to take it seriously. We have to make it interesting.'"