Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed her amusing contribution to character Laurie Strode's story in Halloween Kills. The acting legend shot to fame in 1978 when she played a young Laurie in John Carpenter's seminal slasher Halloween, her acting debut. Curtis reprised the role in the sequel Halloween II in 1981. In addition to an uncredited role as the voice of a telephone operator in unrelated sequel Halloween III: Season Of The Witch (1982), she eventually returned to the role (and the franchise) in 1998, playing Strode once more in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, the seventh instalment in the Halloween franchise.

Across a glittering acting career, spanning more than 40 years, and including a BAFTA Award and 2 Golden Globe Awards, Curtis has played the Halloween character a total of six times on screen, with the planned sequel Halloween Ends, slated for a 2022 release, primed to make it seven. Her portrayal has frequently been cited as one of horror's greatest heroines, as well as one of the earliest examples of the final girl archetype. The 2018 Halloween reboot operated as a direct sequel to the 1978 movie, and retconned all other sequels, with critics and fans delighting in the return of Curtis and the respect the movie paid to the original.

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Halloween Kills operates almost like this iteration's Halloween II, but Curtis had a demand of her own this time around. Speaking to Sydney Confidential, the 62-year-old says she didn't want Laurie wearing another hospital gown, as she had done in almost the entirety of Halloween II. She claims it would make the character look "wimpy," which was not what she was going for:

I was involved in trying to figure out a way to get me out of a f—ing hospital gown because the way it was written, Laurie was in a hospital gown the whole movie. I said to David Green, 'I've been there, done that, I am not going to run around a hospital with my bare ass hanging out.' And I said, Laurie Strode cannot be wimpy this whole movie. That was my biggest contribution to the movie — the fact that I get back in my clothes.

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The movie follows on directly from the end of Halloween, with Strode in the hospital having an emergency operation to recover from her latest encounter with Michael Myers, whilst her and her family, with help from the Haddonfield community, face off against him once more. Halloween Kills enjoyed a strong box office performance, as well as impressive streaming numbers on the Peacock platform. With the success of the movie, a further sequel is planned for release next year, though not much is known about what the storyline might be. There is speculation that the next Halloween movie may be the last for Curtis, though in today's franchise-happy film industry, it's impossible to know for sure.

Curtis continues to act in both movies and TV, and has moved into producing, taking on executive producer roles on both Halloween and Halloween Kills. While fellow producer Jason Blum has said he hopes to make more movies, the future of the franchise beyond 2022's Halloween Ends is anyone's guess. The title would suggest the plan is for this to be the final instalment of the current Halloween reboot, but there is certainly scope to explore the franchise again in later years. With the strong box office numbers Halloween Kills has posted thus far, it seems that the appetite for the franchise remains as strong as ever.

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Source: Sydney Confidential

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