Jamie Lee Curtis acknowledged her “nepo child” standing in a tongue-in-cheek method at Sunday evening’s Display Actors Guild Awards.
Describing how she first turned a member of SAG, Curtis — the daughter of two stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh — famous that considered one of her first roles was in a short-lived ABC sequence within the Seventies that was primarily based on an earlier film that includes her father.
“I received my SAG card after I was 19 years outdated, after I signed a seven-year contract to Common Studios and starred in an ABC TV sequence referred to as ‘Operation Petticoat,’ which was primarily based on a film that my father Tony Curtis — ‘nepo child,’ starred in,” the Oscar-nominated “Every part All over the place All at As soon as” star mentioned to laughter from the viewers.
“Now, I used to be fired from that TV present a 12 months later, and I believed my life was over,” Curtis continued in her “I Am An Actor” section firstly of Sunday evening’s ceremony. “However the excellent news is that if I hadn’t been fired from Operation Fucking Petticoat, I might have by no means had the chance to audition for somewhat, tiny, no-budget horror film referred to as ‘Halloween,’ which modified my life. My identify is Jamie Lee Curtis, and I'm, proudly, an actor.”
In December, a New York journal cowl story on Hollywood nepotism sparked a wave of “nepo child” discourse. The story was complimentary of Curtis, classifying the “Halloween,” “True Lies” and “Knives Out” star as a “nepo-baby graduate,” noting that “when you’ve been round lengthy sufficient or completed sufficient iconic stuff by yourself, nobody cares who your dad and mom have been.”
Curtis initially expressed criticism of the dialog across the time period in an Instagram put up in December.
“The present dialog about nepo infants is simply designed to attempt to diminish and denigrate and damage. For the report I've navigated 44 years with the benefits my related and mirrored fame introduced me, I don’t fake there aren’t any, that attempt to inform me that I've no worth alone,” she wrote. “It’s curious how we instantly make assumptions and snide remarks that somebody associated to another person who is legendary of their area for his or her artwork, would by some means don't have any expertise by any means. I've come to study that's merely not true. I've suited up and proven up for all completely different sorts of labor with 1000's of 1000's of individuals and each day I’ve tried to deliver integrity and professionalism and love and group and artwork to my work.”
Now, the actor, who has actually develop into a legend in her personal proper, appears to have come round, poking enjoyable on the time period and proudly owning as much as it.
Afterward Sunday evening, Curtis received the SAG Award for Greatest Supporting Actress for her function as Deirdre, the memorably grouchy IRS auditor in “Every part All over the place All at As soon as.”
In her acceptance speech, she once more referenced the ‘nepo child’ dialog. “I do know you take a look at me and suppose, ‘Nepo child, that’s why you’re right here.’ I completely get it,” earlier than calling her award “superb.”
Curtis can be nominated for an Oscar this 12 months. The ceremony shall be held on March 12.
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