Scream Queen: How Getting Fired Launched Jamie Lee Curtis’ Iconic Career In ‘Halloween’

Academy Award winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis is well known for her reprising role in the “Halloween” franchise and comedic films. But early in her career, Curtis hit some bumps on the road to fame.& Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode Ryan Green in 2022’s “Halloween Ends”/Universal Pictures At the 2023 SAG Awards, Curtis shared how she went from being fired from a television series to starring in what would become one of the most defining moments of her career.& Halloween Scream Queen “I was fired from that television show a year later,” she shared. “But the good news is if I hadn’t been fired from ‘Operation Petticoat’ I never would have had the opportunity to audition for a little tiny no budget horror movie called ‘Halloween,’ which changed my life.”& Directed by John Carpenter, “Halloween” was the highest-grossing independent film of its time, earning a reported $47 million in the United States and $23 million worldwide.& For Curtis, who was cast in the lead role as Laurie Strode, this was an opportunity to pay homage to her mother, actress Janet Leigh, who was a horror film icon in her own right who had starred in “Psycho.” Curtis also starred...