Jamie Lee Curtis reveals shocking truth about 'Halloween' sequels

Jamie Lee Curtis admits she was “blindsided” by Halloween trilogy.

The 67-year-old horror icon has revealed she wouldn’t have signed up to the new Halloween movies if she’d known she was signing on for a trilogy.

Curtis returned as Laurie Strode in David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween reboot, picking up the torch 40 years after the original. 

But speaking at the SXSW panel If Not Now, When, If Not Me, Who? Pivoting and Manifesting, she  admitted she had no idea there would be two follow-ups: Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.

“The only reason I am sitting in this chair today is because of Jason. Jason Blum, who runs Blumhouse, is the one who brought back the Halloween movies,” she said. 

“If they had come to me and said it’s going to be a trilogy, I don’t think I would have said yes.”

Freaky Friday star explained she was drawn in by the chance to secure a development deal with Blumhouse, joking about the studio’s famously frugal approach. 

“How do you make low-budget movies? You don’t pay people. That’s the model,” she said. 

She eventually negotiated a “vanity deal” with Blum to develop projects through her own Comet Pictures, including hiring filmmaker Russell Goldman for his debut feature Sender, which premiered at SXSW.

While she has since branched out from horror, Curtis admitted she will always hold a soft spot for the genre. 

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