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"I’m scheduled to speak to Jamie Lee Curtis at 2pm UK time, and a few minutes
before the allotted slot I dial in via video link, to be met with a vision of
the 66-year-old actor sitting alone in a darkened room, staring impassively
into the camera. “Morning,” she says, with comic flatness, as I make a sound of
surprise that is definitely not a little scream.
Oh, hi!! I say, Are you early or am I late?
“I’m always early,” says the actor, deadpan. “Or as my elder daughter refers to
me, ‘aggressively early’.”
Curtis is in a plain black top, heavy black-framed glasses and – importantly
for this conversation – little or no makeup, while behind her in the gloom, a
dog sleeps in a basket. She won’t say what part of the US she’s in beyond the
fact it’s a “witness protection cabin in the woods” where “I’m trying to have
privacy” – an arch way, I assume, of saying she’s not in LA – and immediately
starts itemising other situations in which she has been known to be early:
Hollywood premieres (“They tell me I can’t go to the red carpet yet because
it’s not open and so my driver, Cal, and I drive around and park in the
shade”); early-morning text messages (“I wake people up”); even her work
schedule: “I show up, do the work, and then I get the fuck out.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
