Jamie Lee Curtis endorsed a new Bernie Sanders meme involving her hit movie True Lies. Though she's starred in over 40 movies across nearly every genre, Jamie Lee Curtis started her career as one of cinema's most beloved scream queens. Her film debut in John Carpenter's slasher classic Halloween launched her to stardom in 1978, leading her to headline other horror hits of the era like Prom Night and The Fog. By the 1980s she transitioned into dramas and comedies to become a steady presence in mainstream Hollywood movies over the next four decades. Her career has since ranged from a wacky mom in Freaky Friday to a hardened victim-turned-hunter in the rebooted Halloween series.

Arguably the biggest turning point of Curtis's career was her starring role opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in James Cameron's 1994 action comedy True Lies, where she plays Schwarzenegger's wife who's enlisted out of necessity to help her spy husband pull off a mission. In addition to being remembered for winning her first Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, the movie is also remembered for Curtis's seductive striptease scene. And with the Cameron film still fondly remembered 26 years later, it was only a matter of time before it collided with the biggest Internet meme of 2021 so far.

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Jamie Lee Curtis got in on the Bernie Sanders meme craze by tweeting one in which the Vermont senator is seen sitting in on her famous True Lies seduction scene. Though it's not clear who created this version of the meme, the actress and her over 580,000 followers delighted in the hilarious edit, with many users responding with their own Bernie memes involving Curtis's 1974 Halloween role. Check out her endorsement and fan reactions below:

The meme originated from Joe Biden's inauguration, where a chilly Bernie Sanders was spotted huddling in a chair wearing patterned mittens and the same jacket seen in his earlier "I am once again asking" memes. His sullen and unimpressed demeanor immediately took the Internet by storm, with millions of users photoshopping him into everything from the Iron Throne to Deadpool.

Though they're typically created out of innocent fun, memes have always been an indirect form of marketing and promotion. Office Space has become a beloved cult classic in the decades since its 1999 release, but its popularity saw a resurgence when the first "That would be great" meme featuring the movie's dry antagonist Bill Lumbergh was created in the early 2010s. As Jamie Lee Curtis's True Lies meme shows, the wave of Bernie Sanders memes has had the same spotlight effect on movies and TV shows both new and old, a trend that's set to continue as the Internet keeps churning out new incarnations of grumpy, bundled-up senator.

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