There was a time where we might not have seen Jamie Lee Curtis in the Halloween franchise revival!
The 67-year-old actress reprised her role as Laurie Strode in the 2018 horror film Halloween, and again in 2021′s Halloween Kills and 2022′s Halloween Ends.
However, during a recent panel conversation at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival on Saturday (March 14), she revealed she would have probably said no to coming back if she knew one tidbit about the movies.
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“The only reason I am sitting in this chair today is because of Jason. Jason Blum, who runs Blumhouse, is the one who brought back the Halloween movies,” Jamie shared, via Variety.
Then, she said when she got the call to reprise her role, she thought it was only one movie and didn’t know there would be more.
“If they had come to me and said it’s going to be a trilogy, I don’t think I would have said yes,” Jamie Lee revealed. “Jason Blum is notoriously cheap. How do you make low-budget movies? You don’t pay people. That’s the model.”
However, she did use this to her advantage…
“While we were editing and doing the mix, David said, ‘You know it’s a trilogy.’ I was like, ‘Uh, no.’ I went to Jason Blum and said, ‘I have some ideas, maybe you could give me a first look deal, just pay me a little money,’” she said. “I said to Jason, ‘How about a little development deal?’ And I owed him two Halloween movies, so what was he gonna say?”
The extra money she wanted was for filmmaker Russell Goldman, who she was working with to try and get their 2023 graphic novel “Mother Nature” made. Now, he works in development at her production company, and they are also premiering their movie Sender, which marks his feature film directorial debut, at SXSW.
In case you missed it, Jamie Lee recently called out a late night talk show host…
