CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER. When SFX sits down to chat with bona fide legend Jamie Lee Curtis it’s only been days since she won her – long-overdue – Academy Award.
Everything Everywhere All At Once scooped a whopping seven wins, including Best Picture. Even better, Curtis picked up her Oscar for a role in a sci-fi film. “A sci-fi drama really,” she considers, “but a sci-fi film with a dildo fight, a butt plug martial arts fight and deep emotion. I’m thrilled that something as diverse as the movie was recognised in such a beautiful way.”
When she puts it like that, it must’ve been interesting when she first read the script… “I didn’t really understand it,” she admits. “But I also understood that it wasn’t my job to understand the script. My job is to understand who the character is that they’re asking me to play. I did understand her very well. And in understanding her then I was able to interpret her, and what was going on in
