Jamie Lee Curtis

The Hollywood legend on ‘Halloween,’ working out, and why advice is ‘hostile’

- ANGIE MARTOCCIO

Is this new Halloween movie really the end for your character Laurie Strode?

I thought it was the end years ago. The last thing in the world I thought I would ever do again was a Halloween movie, and now I’ve made three of them in five years. It is the end of this trilogy, for sure. And yet this year is my Beatles birthday [64], and I feel more alive than I have ever felt. So to assume that in 10 years I won’t feel even more alive would then bring a question of, “Well, why not?”

Why do you feel more alive now than ever?

I’m considering writing a book called “Die Alive,” which has become a rallying cry for me. I want to die very creative. Whatever moment of clarity happens when you realize you have zero time to waste, for me, it really hit at 60. “If not now, when? If not me, who?” I’ve been a creative person since I was 18, and there’s been a lot in my head that has not come out. I have movie and TV show ideas. I made a short Super 8 film about a botanist whose wife was eaten by her houseplants. I have shit in my head! [Laughs.] If I died without releasing all that creativity, that’s the real tragedy.