Jamie Lee Curtis says she owes her whole life to the 'Halloween' movies

Jamie Lee Curtis got very emotional while discussing "Halloween Ends" and her legacy as Laurie Strode at New York Comic-Con on October 8. “At this point, Jamie and Laurie have weaved together. There's no separation," she said during her chat with Drew Barrymore on Saturday night. Curtis first played Laurie in 1978 in "Halloween," her first film role. was only 19 when filming director John Carpenter's horror masterpiece No Career," she explained of the impact the role had on her life. "I wouldn't have family. It all comes down to the fact that you love him." Curtis referenced her age and said that "one of these days" she will die and "It's going to say three words: 'Halloween' The actress dies."

Curtis has played Laurie in seven "Halloween" movies, including "Halloween Ends," which premieres October 14 in theaters and on Peacock. She also explained how she ended up appearing in "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later" in 1998 and very briefly in "Halloween: Resurrection" in 2002. According to Curtis, she went to see director Carpenter and producer Debra Hill with the idea of ​​making a sequel to mark the twentieth anniversary. Neither ended up returning for "H20," but Curtis did sign. "It was designed like what happens when you run away from fear," she explained. Laurie is hiding, with a new name. "The whole conceit of the movie was that if you run away from fear, you're dead inside." By the end of the film, as Curtis had imagined, Laurie would finally kill Michael Meyers once and for all.

But when Curtis got the script for "H20", it had a "vague" ending. "At that point, there was a contract...and you couldn't kill it," she said of the franchise's iconic villain. She was angry because she didn't want to tell the fans that it was the end if it wasn't really the end. Writer Kevin Williamson came up with a solution: Laurie would think she killed Michael Meyers, only for the mask to lift and reveal an innocent paramedic.

Curtis finally accepted that ending, with a caveat. "I said, but you have to pay me a lot of money in the next movie, and you have to kill me in the movie...