Jamie Lee Curtis felt 'pretty isolated' on the set of 'Knives Out': a 'very difficult time' on set

Jamie Lee Curtis may be the iconic scream queen, but she quickly became a lonely woman on the set of "Knives Out."

Rian Johnson's 2019 mystery film was filmed in Massachusetts, and while Curtis bonded with the all-star cast including Ana de Armas, Chris Evans, Christopher Plummer and Daniel Craig, the 'Halloween' star Ends" recently revealed that she was kept in the dark and "had no idea" the central mystery would play out on screen.

"I was actually quite isolated," Curtis said. "I was living alone in this weird hotel, and a lot of the movie, I'm not into it. I was alone for a lot and it was a very difficult time."

She added, "It turned out to be this fantastic movie. I never would have known the movie we were making was the movie we made. It wasn't obvious to me, because Rian was so precise in his methodology, and it's not like we're all looking at monitors and seeing all the work. We had no idea. We'd just do our little thing and then go home. It was just such a delicious surprise.”

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The success of 'Knives Out' led Johnson to sign a deal for at least two more films for Netflix, with the sequel 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' premiering on December 23, marking a new level of stardom for Curtis, who later co-starred in the viral hit "Everything Everywhere All at Once".

"I remember when they wanted me to go to CinemaCon with 'Knives Out', I was like, they want me to go to CinemaCon?" Curtis said. “They don't want all these other people to go to CinemaCon? Because I really felt like this tiny, tiny, delicious but tiny piece of the puzzle. It was so much fun to be his head cheerleader. I'm a bit of a mass promotion weapon and I was very supportive of that one, because it was so fun and awesome and people loved it."

Much like Curtis feeling isolated on the set of the first film, the sequel to "Knives Out" was written and filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, with writer-director Johnson telling Netflix's Tudum that he has writes the screenplay during confinement.

"I was writing ['Glass Onion'] during the 2020 lockdown, and I wanted a beach vacation more than anything," Johnson said. “A big part of why I'm such a fan of these creations is that they bring me intense joy. Working with Daniel [Craig] in this genre and having fun with him and the humor, working with a new group of actors every time, everything just brings me happiness."

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