Jamie Lee Curtis is not here for an “industrial vacation complex.”
The actress, 66, revealed her mixed feelings about the holiday season while visiting View on Friday, December 20, to promote her latest film, The Last Showgirl, as well as her new Amazon Prime Video series, Sticky.
Speaking to the hosts, Curtis jokingly referred to herself as “Scrooge’s slightly snotty sister” before admitting: “I’m a little Scrooge-y.”
The Everything everywhere and at once The star went on to clarify that while she “gets” the charm of the holiday season in theory, she just can’t get past the stress. Curtis said, “Obviously, I’m here in New York — tree, it’s beautiful. I have that feeling. There’s just so much to do.”
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The actress then compared holiday shopping to other major commercial industries.
“I feel around [the holiday season] as I think of the beauty industry – which I think is called the beauty industrial complex – and the same as I think of the cosmeceutical industry – which is the cosmeceutical industrial complex. I feel it too [that way] about the tourist industrial complex; where you feel like you’re not doing more, somehow you’re not good enough. And I have to tell you that I just got over it!”
Jamie Lee Curtis poses in the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
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And she is not alone. As recently as 2021, the American Psychiatric Association reported that about 40% of adults were worried about finding holiday gifts, and about 46% of adults were worried about being able to afford them. Furthermore, roughly 20% of adults used words like “stress” and “anxiety” to describe their feelings about the “happiest” time of year.
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Also in conversation on ViewCurtis also talked about embracing “being the boss” later in life.
“I am currently 66 years old and I started [acting] when I was 19 years old. And I want to be a boss since I was 19 years old. I’m the boss!” she stated, adding, “And I wanted to have a bigger role in my creative life, but it just didn’t work out that way. And it was good. I loved my life. I loved the work I had to do. And I raised my daughters. You know, my life is beautiful and full.”
“But, you know,” she continued, “I turned 60 and ‘If not now, when, if not me who’ started.” [also] the idea that I need to manifest work for myself that is in my head.”
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Curtis is currently producing and acting Sticky, heist series about a Canadian syrup grower who assembles a team to fight the country’s multi-million dollar maple syrup industry.
“[The script] made me laugh,” Curtis said recently while speaking with Prime Canada about why she chose the series as her first major producing credit. “It is incredibly well written. It had that sense of dark comedy that I love. It was about something. It was a little crazy. And it just worked.”
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In addition to his new show, Curtis also appears opposite Pamela Anderson in The last showgirla Vegas drama that deals with the themes of aging in a youth-obsessed culture. The film also stars Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka and Dave Bautista.
The entire first season of the series Sticky currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, and The last showgirl it’s in select theaters now.
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