{"id":213620,"date":"2025-12-28T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/jamie-lee-curtis-grateful-for-mom-janet-leigh-blocking-her-from-the-exorcist-audition-aged-12\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:06:09","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-grateful-for-mom-janet-leigh-blocking-her-from-the-exorcist-audition-aged-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/jamie-lee-curtis-grateful-for-mom-janet-leigh-blocking-her-from-the-exorcist-audition-aged-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis grateful for mom Janet Leigh blocking her from The Exorcist audition aged 12"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a> is glad she narrowly dodged fame as a child thanks to her late mom Janet Leigh.<\/p>\n

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The late Janet Leigh, and her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis in 1998<\/p>\n

The 67-year-old Hollywood legend revealed she was asked to audition for the 1973 horror classic The Exorcist by its late director, Ray Stark – who was friends with her mom – but Janet refused because Jamie was only 12 at the time and wanted her to have a childhood.<\/p>\n

During a recent appearance on The Drew Barrymore<\/a> Show, Jamie – who got her big break aged 19 as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher, Halloween – recalled: “He called my mom and said, ‘Hey, I’m producing the movie of the book The Exorcist. Will you let Jamie audition for it?’<\/p>\n

“And at the time, I was probably 12 and, like, cute and kind of sassy, and I had some personality, and I\u2019m sure he saw me at a party and was like, ‘Oh, she\u2019d be funny.'”<\/p>\n

However, Psycho legend Janet – who had Jamie and actress Kelly Curtis, 69, with her late ex-husband, actor Tony Curtis – gave Ray a firm “no”.<\/p>\n

\nJamie – who lost her mom to vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels, at the age of 77 in October 2004 – explained: “My mom really wanted me to have – thank God – a childhood, which I understand you didn\u2019t get. <\/p>\n

\n“You didn\u2019t get that option. And people didn’t step in and say, ‘No, [Drew] will have a childhood, she will have protection.'”<\/p>\n

\nDespite Jamie not starring in The Exorcist, with the role going to a then-13-year-old actress Linda Blair, she watched the movie on her 15th birthday with pals.<\/p>\n

\nIn 2018, Jamie revealed to Entertainment Weekly: “We had a house that actually had a screening capability, and we screened The Exorcist for my 15th birthday, for my friends.<\/p>\n

\n“It scared me so badly that my friends would taunt me in school.”<\/p>\n

\nElsewhere, Jamie, who cemented herself as a scream queen thanks to her role in 1978’s Halloween, said she felt at ease when making the John Carpenter classic.<\/p>\n

\nIn 2020, she explained to Variety: “We had nothing to lose; we didn\u2019t know that we had anything to gain. We were just so happy to have this gig.<\/p>\n

\n“The original Halloween was made in 17 days with like 12 people. Everybody was young. There was magic happening and none of us, not one person – I would dare say even [director] John Carpenter and [writer] Debra Hill – I don\u2019t think anybody knew.”<\/p>\n

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