{"id":169049,"date":"2025-05-18T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/nicole-kidman-demands-jamie-lee-curtis-star-in-scarpetta-sisters\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T15:59:57","slug":"nicole-kidman-demands-jamie-lee-curtis-star-in-scarpetta-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/nicole-kidman-demands-jamie-lee-curtis-star-in-scarpetta-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman Demands Jamie Lee Curtis Star in Scarpetta Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/jamie-lee-curtis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jamie Lee Curtis<\/strong><\/a> is opening up about her costar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/nicole-kidman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicole Kidman<\/a>\u2019s role in her becoming more than just a producer on the upcoming Prime Video series <em>Scarpetta Sisters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatricia Cornwell has been writing about a medical examiner named Dr. Kay Scarpetta for over 20 years, and I can\u2019t even tell you how many millions of people have bought these books. And Nicole is going to play Dr. Kay Scarpetta,\u201d Curtis, 66, exclusively told <em>Us Weekly<\/em> on Monday, May 12.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis went on to explain to Us that she first met Kidman, 57, at the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe actually introduced herself to me and we exchanged hellos and a little bit of chick bonding,\u201d she added. \u201cBut then we walked away and I was like, \u2018Okay, wow. That was crazy.\u2019 And six months later she heard that we were making the Scarpetta show and that I was producing and she basically said, \u2018I want to be Scarpetta.\u2019 And then when I went, \u2018Okay, great,\u2019 she said, \u2018But you\u2019re going to be in it with me, right?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/jamie-lee-curtis-through-the-years-her-life-in-photos\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/jamie-lee-curtis-through-the-years-her-life-in-photos\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Her Biggest Win! Jamie Lee Curtis Earns 1st Oscar for &#8216;EEAAO&#8217;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tThe scream queen! Jamie Lee Curtis has had a long and successful career, starting off in iconic horror films before venturing into hit comedies. The Fierce Creatures actress was born in Santa Monica, California, to actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. Jamie went on to study law at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once<\/em> star, it was at that moment that she became much more than an executive producer on the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was that moment of like, \u2018Yes, Nicole Kidman. Yes. I\u2019m going to be in a show with you.\u2019 I had no choice,\u201d she explained. You had no choice. I was going to be a producer, and at that moment it was decided that I was going to act in the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prime Video has already greenlit two seasons of the upcoming show, based on Patricia Cornwell\u2019s <em>Kay Scarpetta<\/em> novel series. Kidman will play the forensic pathologist and crime fighter, while Curtis will portray her sister, Dorothy. Kidman is also an executive producer on the project.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Curtis told Us that when it comes to figuring out when to attach her name to a project, just based on her filmography and TV biography alone it\u2019s clear that she\u2019s \u201cnot that particular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually, if a part comes to me, there\u2019s a reason. It\u2019s not random,\u201d she continued. \u201cI don\u2019t believe you\u2019ll be seeing me playing Lady Macbeth. I don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to see Lady Macbeth in my filmography.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cI pretty much do the work that comes to me \u2026 I love my life. I just love the fact that I get to be me, that I get to do what I do, that I get to do art and be a part of the art form that I get to be part of \u2014 entertainment. I love the combo platter of show business. I\u2019m a marketing guru. I love marketing. And I just love the process of living a creating life. So I got no complaints.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/nicole-kidman-demands-jamie-lee-curtis-star-in-scarpetta-sisters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Lee Curtis is opening up about her costar Nicole Kidman\u2019s role in her becoming more than just a producer on the upcoming Prime Video series Scarpetta Sisters. \u201cPatricia Cornwell has been writing about a medical examiner named Dr. Kay Scarpetta for over 20 years, and I can\u2019t even tell you how many millions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}