Welcome to the eighty twenty podcast number, nine sixty seven. It is amazing to be back very sad to be back. Thank you so much genuine a reach down said they missed the podcast. I miss doing it and so we're back. The plan is to post Tuesdays and Fridays, but I think next week will be posting three episodes which will happen from time to time, but we ve just I've, been recording a ton of them a lot of really really really wonderful, chats with people that I'm here at about, and yes we're just we'll be back into the swing of it. They will be available. Obviously, if you're getting on- and I turned and then also it's kind of building out, eighty twenty dot com that will be the home for the pod cast

and also, you know, just some fine like t shirts and toys and stuff like that, so that'll be that are becoming soon and also if you have an event that you, the corporates coming back of human event, that you wanted to talk about shared at events at Idee, ten t dot com, and we will do that. This episode is Jamie Curtis, who is a gem of being absolute Jim, I mean so funny and wonderful and and and told some really soulful stories on the pod cast. So I really really really was not or to have her on this first step, back and the latest how we movie, which destroy. In theatres was great. She was great in it and I just issued congratulations to her and everyone

Plumb house and maintaining Mcbride so the world for bringing it back. And finally, I guess, just by sheer coincidence today, the posting. This episode is the five year anniversary of my dad passing away and you know how to mention it to be a bummer, but I like to acknowledge it. I like to acknowledge him. Of course, I miss him every single day, but I I do like to talk about it, because, if you're going through something like that, if you ve lost someone, I just want you to know that it does get better. It does get easier all the things that you there were sources of pain for you in the beginning actually become sources of strength. So you know it look. I said this on talking to the day after it happened five years ago, the holidays coming up it so easy to go over whelmd it so easily caught up in stupid little things that you know frustrate You that really actually don't matter the people close to you matter, and so you know if this motivates you to just take a breath. Take a minute you reach out to someone

You care about a friend, a family member, a significant other. Whatever and just say, hey. I just wonder you know I was thinking about. You will appreciate that you did some day and you know that's that's the important stuff in life. So I appreciate you I appreciate that this is the identified cast number nine, sixty seven with the hilarious, an incredible Jamie, Curtis Andy

carrying a woman- and I bring me here with me. Right now: women, adult male and I'm wearing a millennium falcon zip up. You are you're wearing a retro, really didn't look about fourteen months, my you know, aren't we don't? We live the rest of her life in service to our fourteen year. Old self

isn't that really what well? There could be a conversation? Let's, let's, let's have it all right because hard work, play Curtis you by the way, don't get say anything you do what you wanna say. You did one of my favorite things ever I mean like of favorite life moments, you're a part of one. I ran into the day before I was getting married and we were at the sole trinket job on third and you got what you don't think I'm getting married tomorrow and I was by all these like beer, we give each other than the wife, and I gave each other presents before we got married sort of like a pre wedding present thing, so I bought all these things and I was explaining all of them to you like, and then I bought this dandelion from. In a cube kuznets like a permanent wish- and I guess I gave a listing and you were across start store. You go fuck you Chris Hardwicke, you and your brand new marriage fuck you. It was one of my favorite, the clerks didn't know it.

Do and I absolutely loved it well. To remember that I have a vague memory of her. I think I was just talking about the precious That is why I mean there's theirs. There's a new preciousness that I sort of big bit it sort of an instagram business. Now, weddings o absolutely right, but if it didn't I'm in there have always been weddings and there have always been wedding sites in magazines and, of course, wedding magazines are the only magazines the won't go out of business, because that- and you know well, children stores are going out of business

but wedding magazines, one kind of business, so I just you were just a little pressure- was a little larger. It was like a little too much from he use just did you know I mean I wouldn't be surprised if you said you had icebreakers, make custom icebreaker mince with your guys, initials on them or something that you presented her well. My wife didn't have little jars, a honey made with our names on them, but I would hate you people, a threat, which is this part of the particles are believe it is well we ve already euro. Even you don't anywhere like hides. Chris No, you know why I tell you, I don't do it if you want to know why, because when you do cause people and I've done a million times, people get so into junket mode,

but if you say were beginning now now I understand: did I've been doing the hollowing hustle all over the world? Now I've been singing doo doo doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, doo doo, the hospital, but that's all I've been doing. I've been doing this hustle for three months now, and so trust me. I understand and you know, you're, you know we're gonna yak for a while we're gonna yeah. Normally you get three minutes or for, and so you get into junket mode, because you know you have to drop in to what you need to say that will be germane to what will drive them to the theatre. You know it's a very specific. It's not talking points they dont by the way. Give me now imagine them. I have had people send me talking points before and I am not an aggressive person

I don't push back very hard, but when people send me talking points whose side talk level I'd, I get on the phone unlike high, its Jamie Curtis um. I'm sixty- and you just sent me talking point like you- think I'm gonna pay attention you're talking point enough and flags. I've got em, I know em, and I will distilled this and communicate this in my way, which is why I am the one on the microphone like I I'm not saying that out of some. It's not that's, not ego talking, that's literally, the reality is like. Why do you hire me? Why did they hire me to do commercials for all those years I did. I did hurts.

Commercials with Oj Simpson, while Arnold Palmer, when the Young Business executive woman was new to the market place and all of a sudden rental car companies had to factor in the fact that a lot of business women were renting cars and they hired me to represent the young business woman and Arnold Polymer and O J Simpson were the one standing in the airport. I ran through the airport and jumped over the suitcases and Arnold Palmer used to sort of elbow. Oh Jane, go DIN, used, people do that and OJ ago, and that was the joke. He was sort of the excuse me, the boob, if you will the right of rube of the of the commercial, and I was the no at all, and that was how they

were constructed. I knew everything they knew nothing and I did those I've done a lot of commercials. People of hired me to sell their products. As you know, I sold yogurt that makes you shit marine six year, just shoot overspread, but by the way for people who need it, the product was amazing and ultimately it was helpful for people and believe me, don't don't think there wasn't a con nation or two about like well. Are you sure you know- and you know it for me- was a gig allowed me to stay home with my son and you know it. It gave me an income and was product that people needed and liked, and people would come up to me all over the world and say. I just have to tell you a fine. They would tell you their bowels, I would smile at them.

Genuinely be like ok groovy. If that's that's your podcast right there travel the world and people's either shit stories. That is a podcast but weirdly enough. You see, I was the one cause, I'm a marketing person as I was on this movie, I'm a marketing girl like vine, anything I'm a marketing girl whom marketing person, I love good marketing and I started recording those people on my Iphone or my whatever phone. It was at the time in an airport, and I would do that Hi. This is Jamie Curtis, I'm here at the Denver Airport and I'm talking to your girl, high gale. I'm a man named girl, that's interesting to me again when, but tell me what you just shared with me. When I walked

and you were like all of you for the longest time. I was convinced my ass off a few shot because they could not go to the bathroom. You know and what happened and my wife Ed said to me short third Weena hey you gotta get summit Shit Jago Jamie Liqueurs is talking about the shit you're gonna make the lady when the herds commercial do I but it'll it'll, run out like she's running through the airport and eight this yogurt and it just like us sloping machine. Just came out on me. Are you just left, I'm sorry, I must have been jockeying for two. I would record that and send it to my bosses and say you use this. This is real. This is happening in the airport and instead of this script, did you know of very orchestrated commercial life out? They were fantasy,

so anyway. Well, that's, but you have the skill set. An album and a lot of actors do not necessarily have the skills to be able to talk as themselves, and most people are very fond of you. I think, become actors, so they don't have to be themselves or talk of themselves and you are comfortable doing both well I'm intimacy alley you and flippant reverse it, because I truth of the matter is, I am I I have now. I don't want to be other people like they have to drag me to be other people used to be. I wanted to be other people, I one be myself loved the idea of being another person dressing. Like another person, you know being something anything but me, then, on a sudden, when I got sober of a sudden, the shift happen.

Where I started to really like who I was where I was who I was with what I would wear and all of a sudden. This need to be other people started to wane and, and that, I think, is probably the gray this gift of being a sober person. Is that all the sun? I actually like being myself and I dont need to hide who it is an that's great. That was the sort of spinning moment. If you well Hellenes River, you I'll be twenty your sober in February EF I make it. Who the hell we hustle italian. There are some expectations of foot and I am trying to stay the fuck away, from them yes day away. I put the sign of the devil up. You know, with the cross the openly with my fingers when anybody involved with this movie star or people on the street.

Oh, my god. I saw the drawing room, it's gonna be a monster and I just put my fingers up into my lack of evil. Double I'll? Do it back off? I don't want you to know. I don't want to imagine it. I can't because it doesn't exist in its effects. All. It is literally not concrete. It doesn't have any form. That is an unknown controllable totally uncontrolled by an unknown? Now? If you told me that there was a pre sale number, then I could say: oh ok, there's the priests sale right. Oh that's good, but all of this sort of ephemeral, stuff of life, whatever the result. The result, much for me, result oriented Gregg. So I just had fifteen years of myself, it is that kind of it's it so hard to target of a friend of mine, about how we

very. Like PETE people with our thing are very goal: oriented people and weak, but we can sort of get lost in. More more more, more more trying to achieve more everything outside ourselves and it is a constant I mean. Do you think it's a constant that struggle, but a constant thing, you just be happy with whom we are it's a daily, a daily thing to just wake up and be where your feet are now or your head is and not I want to be anything more than who you are in that moment road and let the day on fall by

when the day will unfold as it will and wonderful things are gonna happen and horrible things are gonna happen at the same time, because when something good happens, Paul Alan died, young guy, the EU go, oh, when you think of his family and all the people that new and loved him, and then I never met him. But I have friends who knew him and he was a wonderful guy. He loved music, like loved music in anybody, who's that devoted to music. You know what they're life was because I'm devoted to music. I listen to music all day. Every day all day every day, news and music case your w, I could take a good listener. Members support exactly I mean that's my life, and so when I thought about him and I thought about how much music he loved, I understood who he was young and all

What's a good message for people who are like manna wish. I had like twenty billion dollars, like doesn't matter didn't matter, but doesn't matter and by the way, we're talking about drug addiction and and recovery. You no prince was ass great, an artist as we will ever know roused from his the standpoint of his poetry and an musical talent and and presentation, and he was a dope fiend whose dope fiend he was a dope fiend. On Fenton all patches and Fenton all pills and was pacing in front of a wall greens two days before he died and overdose, it none of it matters unless the from my standpoint, unless you wake up be where your feet are and not try to live in your head cut off my head, will not it's not a safe neighbourhood

near the ear. Not a good neighbourhood will that's. The thing is that I think it's it's rang. Warfare, Orpheus, staying warfare and dying language, you're, a piece of shit, no you're, fantastic you're, a piece of shit, no you're, fantastic! It's the jets in the shark but they're in your head and it's you know it's bad In you around in your trying to walk, steady and it's very difficult, I know I know this gang were in the head and I think the the incredible thing to learn. I do think that part of I think our settings are off because I think we have to feel things. We have to feel extreme things. We feel extreme drama. We feel extremes happiness. We feel it

scientists and when it somewhere, we have to learn how to reset and know that not feeling something is ok and stillness. I feel it we're just constantly running from stillness stats. Why, when you wake up, you be where your feet are and not where your head is and then you sort of centre it and then you go from there and I'm not telling you or anybody. God knows why they would lessen, but anybody listening. Apparently people listen to some people. Do you, Lisa couple people do if they saw that jacket, it would listen the even more. No, I I fear DA the jacket. I don't you think, a millennium falcon seventies, retro rainbow. Members only jacket is something that would be a draw. I think it Robin Hood shot in the debts where bulls eye of our topic. Repel even added her out ex just mean, and it says, castle crew on the back door as it does. The other guy

Ok, I'm I'm gonna! U want to borrow it later, for your Yang wont. Let me where to find out where your sweater well, where they read to the premier committees that Apash meaner, is that it's actually actual catch me. Scourge, darling very soft minds, power yesterday. I saw yours is very nice. Yes, it's very nice, but look it's on the floor in a pile knew. Well, you know this. One of our later or for now know when you go and the Australian will think about it. If you ok, you're, really taking your time with this I'm sure! That's! Ok! Now I get your come home you know like, so I will surprise the family without new. I just I don't! Even I don't even think my son Tom would wear it then he's probably in in Tom. Would you know your summer price say it's just special zip up that I dont want to wear it. For fear of you know ruining there, you it's, not import. How old are you all right? Why do why do you have to hold the premier like that, when that simple

idea of our lives, but merely look in the mirror, because we're looking in the mirror were looking at the problem. That's right! you see if you're, looking in the mere in you're. Looking at the problem, the only person you can changes you true, but you can't look in the mirror, long. Otherwise, you think the entire world is reflection of you and boys that a problem yes or you killed a mere two long or you'll, pull out the tweezers and start plucking. Your eyebrows. I have a timer go and to everyone. When you play. Go I'm a piece of shit, I'm fandango! No! When I when I, because women will do any women living. Listen to this, you have not I dont know through its true okay, so any women who are listening to this. You know they now have twenty magnification A mere and when you get a twenty magnification mirror and a pair of eyebrow tweezers and some good natural light, you can go You really need twenty x ray it's too much so

is actually set a timer, I'm allowed one minute per, because if not, I will eyebrows end of it, nor the world can't see you at twenty x y. What do you mean by sea somehow they make something that you can see and it's just its shocking. It's like you have in their there's more than you could ever do you don't want to know? What's in your eyebrows, when you actually get a twenty ex going with the majority of? Could capitalist consumerism is You should feel bad about yourself by this. Well, as you now or may not know, the quote that I have lived my life on his from the princess bride when the man in Black, who is really princess, Brides Lover Wesley when Wesley is dead and she's crying and she he laughs or something- and she says you mark my pain and he looks at her and says: life is pain, princess and anyone who tells you

fringes selling something that is how I lived my life, because this idea of selling something this constant. I told you I'm a marketing Ex Murray, just the constant, constant flow, and then you married the sick, fingered men. Well, I'm already married by that point. Right: yes, you're! Yes, oh yes, oh yeah, we were married almost instantly. Then you're still married, apparently that you must read those papers. I died, I don't need anything

the more! The news is just to toxic out I'm. When I'm with you about him. You know flush, my phone, because I just can't I mean it's just too much comes in from that device. Now it's too much it is through. There's gonna be backlash, they'll be a backlash. It would be big, even our friend Sean James, the best browser adore him, even Sean James posted yesterday, something about just social media and the responsibility of it is too much for all of us and we have to, as a group shall deplete every like the jury, to note that the witnesses of which the bird but I flipped the West Coast Bird, oh there's this one that ok, this is West Year. That is easy, so so EAST Coast, when you kind of like mash, all your fingers together as in its just a single yes, just a similar, lay like a large just

ok feminine right up and West Coast. You ve pulled it back like a trigger here. You ve pulled back in your fingers, are sort of downs. Yes, yet Betsy West Coast is very artsy. This way to this, just look up. Can't moment that level New York then exactly see in were Archie out here. What midwestern are supposed to do that? to pick aside or do they get their own? Is there I don't know I don't know this will be an interesting male stumbling body, but not. How do you get you something that was able to argue about social media exactly on the remedies, twitter, tweet or whatever? They call it that you know I insulted them. I didn't into I'm sure in the mid way. I have friends in Oklahoma City is that would set Midwest yeah. That's like straight straight up. Midwest ominously, us than someone will correct me. Kansas com is ya a clumsy.

I'll have gas? Sarah, I'm gonna, Americans say Sarah? How do you guys flip people off but wait till you gotta? You got married pretty quickly like immediately and was it. How did you know so? I saw Christmas. Sure in Rolling Stone magazine. I was sitting with Deborah Hill, who wrote the original Halloween and became one of my best. Girlfriends endeavour was over my apartment, I was single. I was sitting in my apartment. And I opened a magazine was Cindy loud or on the cover gross. I want to say: Zack, I would say: may nineteen eighty four and her skirts go in one,

and she's gone, the other that cover thank you and I was looking at it and I flip the page and there was a picture of of three guys with their on a kind of around each other shoulders. Just in like a plaid shirt and you're, a regular looking eyes- and I said out loud to deborah- I'm gonna marry him and I pointed to the guy on the right, and she said. Oh who said that one she said: oh yeah, that's Chris guest. I tried to put him in a movie. I said: oh yeah, I'm gonna marry him said ways with your agent. See look, and I was like so the next day I called his agent and picked up the phone. He said hey, I know all about it. Crisscrossed Jamie's. Looking perplexed, I was embarrassed. I said I m sorry. He said Deborah Hill called me. Why said? Okay? Well, here's my number, I think, he's cute. He never called me. What did you call me and then

David somebody else who wanted to date me that didn't end up being a relationship. I took that person to the airport said goodbye to him. I was making the movie perfect, I was doing training, I went and picked up Melanie Griffith and her then husband, Steve Bower, in West Hollywood. We went to Hugo's, we sat down and crew, was to tables away facing me. He acknowledged me like this, which is sort of a sweet, smile oh and a wave of his hand- and I kind of- did the thing back and then two minutes later we got up to leave and he stood and he shrugged his shoulders and put his hand up like by my ok, bye and even come over and he left, but he called me the next day we went out July. Second, he was leaving for New York to do Saturday night

for a year I remember the August. Eighth, we got engaged September fifteenth and we got married December eighteenth. Oh my gosh, that's been so you got married but by the way was may have been the greatest season of ESA. Now, in the history of ESA note, we said it was, they're worth really funny things on it. Synchronize swimming a super funny Frankie in Two guys you can talk babbling needle, very funny, they did a couple great movies. You know I mean it was there were beautiful things on it and then like every season there, you know there's a reason why the certain sketches or, at the beginning of the show, a certain sketches again need I say so. You were there that whole time. Yes and did you you left a letter. I mean listen. This may be personal loud, but between between the he called you and then he went to New York and then did you go on, like dates,

Did you like? I don't know, I'm sorry that was June. Twenty Eightth we saw each other June twenty. He called me June twentieth. We went out July second and then he left August eighth, but he tried to get out of his contract. So we went out July second, so immediately he was callings agents asking if he could not go to New York. He was gonna, give up the best use of us an over you. Yes, he why that's fantastic, but he couldn't be Earls legally, they wouldn't allow it, so he laughed, and so we were in love with each other right away. I mean it wasn't I mean I was still shooting the movie until December right and as soon as I finish, the movie and his. And finished a Christmas. He came back. We got married on a Tuesday afternoon it, for we were home by seven authority. My solicitor Kelly is still mad at me. If you're listening Kelly, I don't think she would be because she's not then into the millennium falcon poker I'd. Should she

listening or a friend of hers. If anybody here knows Kelly, Curtis pleased her that I apologized on. Is it national radio? I mean international, really intergalactic. If you really want to be technical, I'm in this single too said there can be people in China listening to everywhere, wow, yes, raw pillar, yeah. I know okay, so any body in the world who knows Kelly Curtis or knows how to find her please let her know that I publicly in front of the universe apologized for going home from my wedding at seven hundred and fifteen, when she wanted to keep dancing and actually have a wedding. When Chris and I sort of stood there, we sway back and forth for our wedding dance. We cut the cake, we ate a peace and it was like a cam god. You must go through. What are you can do whatever you want? We went home yeah, that's right, don't wanna stay there, no other who was over really several put down your drinks. Does every year

Left, no, no, I mean it was fast, but it, but I think the waiting. Actually, I think we are really got me. I we have a picture from the wedding day a couple and there is a picture of the woman who married us end. A Christmas watch is in the picture. And I think it says for thirty, so I think we were married it further and then we were home by seven thirty, that's one of those like Colombo. Details like if you look at

Make sure you can you now you were on Colombo. I one of my so you may not know this, but my when I was first a young actress and I was on an emergency and Quincy and I had two lines here in two lines: there I did a Colombo episode. I was a contract player universal studios and I did a Colombo episode and the gig was. I was a waitress in a coffee. Shop and Colombo came in with another guide to talk and he came in holding a donut and I come up to the table gruff waitress, voice and say you can eat that here and he goes oh, oh I'm I'm I'm I'm sorry I am and then he doesn't know what to do with it and then he kind of hands it to me. And then I look at it.

Put it in my pocket, walk away, then there's a scene about the episode and then the button is. I come back and at the end of it, Ok, you know what you want and he goes out. I'm sorry he looks at the menu and then it goes. Ah, ah I'll have a doormat and there's like the button or eyes glared at him, and then I go so I do this like to look to our job. And a week later, two weeks later, a friend of mine says hey. I saw you on Carson last night super cool and I was like wait what they said: yeah Peter Falk was on Colombo and he brought that clip with him because it had nothing to with plot right. I mean is that Psycho Colombo ISM, yet without it being

two integral to the planned. That's one like forty million people, a night watch that NATO and it was still lives. My third gig I was on the tonight show in a club with Peter FUCK. That's phantasmagoria, p and people are really people who are listening to this are completely robbed of the physical Letty that you took up up up up up up had you did is, though, right, listen You have to remember how I married and who was friends what right there a bad imitation club that you can only join if you do a bad imitation, but you also have to be able to do a good one. So I used to be able to do

I am Keaton in the godfather, which I don't remember anymore, but it with the whole run about when their fighting and he thinks it was a miscarriage and she says of Assent portion was an a push Eichel. The whole thing, of course. This must all, and- and I used to be able to do it and then I think I got into the club, but you have people do a bad one. So the guys who can really do impressions and stuff do We argue that your campos, good, it's ok. It would get me in the club as the bad imitation. Yes, but I dont have the good imitation to get in the club she went. I mean you have to be able to do a really good one and I'm not gonna. I will get in to the bad one, but I won't actually get into the club because you have to be able to do

good one. It sets out, listen, there's a lot of there's a lot of rules and Hollywood in show business into harmony, and one of them is the number of unspoken rules and comedies is upset. It's just like. Oh, you can do this, but you can't do this and you can take this joke, but then you can't do it this way, and then I mean, like comedians, we're just all terrified that we're not doing right always well. I dont referred myself as a clean and therefore I don't have to worry about doing turnaround darn at it's funny to me that you were not funny, but it's interesting that you chose to go into this business, especially because I mean having super famous and still that ever put you off for me like I don't want any part of it. A lot I put I didn't choose you know nothing I have done, has ever been a choice, honest. I know that's gonna, sandpaper belike way. The budget review A lumber sir, I my parents were divorced.

My mom was not working a lot in when I was a teenager. You know at that point her career head. You don't mean that the majority of her career was virtually over did not a lot of work during my ten years so was like. I was around her working. I was when I was a child, but not when she was when I was a teenager. My data barely knew so wasn't like. I was sort of steeped in movie world. I lived a pretty weird kind of regular life honestly and I was not that smart and I wasn't particularly act. I wasn't in any plays I when I was a hand

I was a show off. I was somebody you needed a lot of attention and so much so that I mean I am this person at eleven I'm this person- I am you know I am- who am I am- who I am there, was that there was a bad that that was summed up. I know was pop. I because I saw the Robin Williams Documentary witches from the Robert Schuman Popeye. That was the robber outline puddle. I am, but I am this person and re stark was my mother's friend, who I used to see when I was twelve years old. Thirteen years old asked my mother FI could audition for the exorcist and she said no naturally, and then, when the exorcist came out on my fifteenth birthday, we screened it for my party and it was so terrifying that for the rest of my life, all of them,

friends with chase me down the hall at school, going name men make all I tol me me me, and freak show badly that. I ended up naming my first car, my nineteen. Seventy two blue forced cylinder, caprice D me the emir who is my license, plate and sea and then than you do detail into a spectacular horror, career, but then again it was by accident. It was totally by accident. I was not supposed to be an actor. I never thought about being an actor. I was not an actor at all. I was a ham, but I was not an act right, no skills. I can't sing. I can dance.

Little I dont do impressions, although parallel the guy on the chamber, I'm a cop on China to throw down one thing before I leave just because I can, but I was not that I was barely student. I barely got out of high school. I got the only college where my mother was the most famous person to have ever graduated. They wanted me and my deep plus average cause. I was there all. They rode an eye a little sister at a frat. I can't sing the omega five frat song because that you'll shut them down. If I something around the baby I'll know, yes, you will shut them down. You will go to find those people and shut it down, because it was well knows better.

No way no way. But I was that person. I was just the sort of bounce. I didn't know what the f I was doing. I really didn't- and I came home at Christmas by I came home. A friend of mine had a house who had a tennis teacher on her house because she had a court and he came up to me. His name is Chuck bender. He still in the business today. I am grateful to him for my career because he came up to me and said I managing actresses now, they're looking for Nancy drew. Why don't you go up for it? And I was like and I went up for it didn't get it, but I ended up getting a seven year contract from universal and I quit school. Oh my gosh and that's all I was rose. It was an accident you about that. Halloween with seventy eight. Yet so then I did at the bunch of tv shows. I did a tv movie called operation petticoat, they picked it up in

in a series. I was now on a series on a b c, a comedy and I got fired along with all the other actors except for two, because that was the problem with the show. Was he what sort of bad, not the premises, by the way that, via an army, nurses are stuck on a Navy sub week after week after week, when in two hours of a movie they get on frolic and then get off road like there The premise that show reality is solid. It's good, it was the act was yet when they fired me. I got fired from a regular gig and I thought my life was over for anybody who has been fired if anybody's listening, which Some of you are well I'm not. There is at least twelve and a couple people in China we ve determinist, keep it there, twelve or all your family yeah. I know I know the various outwardly doesn't Andrea

but it's sort of sad resources and pay them to watch. I now feel TAT you make it what I pay you railways, it until you make it who I don't even know where we were. Where were we were talking? about how you got fired from my guiding out the greatest sitcom presence in the history of television. If anybody out there has ever been fired and you think your life is over I'll tell you this had not been fired, I would have done a second season of operation petticoat and I would have been unavailable to audition for the movie Halloween, but because I got fired. I was available and Chuck Bender put me up for the part of lorry strode, which our decision for many many many times and ended up getting it You never know exactly what light is around the corner. Well, I operate my life, I'm on a quote

An author, numeration pestle, who wrote a book called special topics in calamity physics. It's a great book mystery and in it she talks about how we all think life is gonna, proceed for all of us and she's what school you went to and you start Ino job you had in blah blah blah and she says it's not. You know, and she says I quote life here. Is on a couple seconds you never see coming and what you do in those seconds determines everything from then on, and you won't know what you're gonna do until your their end quote. So that's how I approach life because that's life to me, you know our French on James or mutual friend has been cutting my hair since ninety ninety eight one of the dearest people, I know who does make up for me from shows I love him to pieces. My dad's July he's the best, so he wouldn't way that check it out.

Yes, he would now. He would wear this jangle leg out a dvd. I was saying I am crazy shoes with like wings and if that was a Vivian Westwood yeah jacket, he would wear it. He wouldn't where in the millennium round living in its he, he is amazing, I so when, where thou and here's how much I owe Sean James, my life is that my dad died very suddenly in two thousand thirteen. The next day I went to work. I met this girl, very briefly, who was a mutual friend of shown in mine, didn't talk to her again for almost a year. The next year I was Single Sean said you should, with Lydia Hearst Margaux YE. I met her last year, but my daddy just died. I barely remember it, I don't know any goes. You should ask her out: Nego, ok, I'll, just cholera. Scrutiny goes well already, Israel for you. She said she go look at you throw down a little Sean James is the little of that is the little shown James and so work he get dragon. The club

yeah, ok good, so he set us up in it it about two years later. Three years later, I realized day after my dad died. I met the woman. I was gonna marry half that fucking melted. My my and then Sean set us up almost a year later lie so hinges on a couple seconds you never see coming ever see coming and seed, that's where we as us society of control have to let go of that. You do the next. You do your best. Next action, you take the right action, you wake up, be where your feet are: try to be nice to people, but in the sense of the real pivots of your life, there's alma,

no one? I know whose life has just been linear point: eight point b: it's just gone every way. If I, if I hadn't opened in honor me hurt me Chris, had been married for a long time. We have to beautiful children. How did that happen? That happened because I wasn't expecting it and there he was. If not, then I took the action you see. I also wasn't passive no no, you aren't you, I'm not Deborah. How was your Sean James Right and by the way weirdly enough, Deborah Hill wrote Halloween, and so in a way, Deborah Hill has been the most influential person in my life, even though she is not with us anymore.

During seriously Deborah Hill, who I think gave voice to all those characters and Halloween. I think all three of those girls are Deborah Hill kind of combined into one person, and you know I owe her literally my life. Did you know when it because horror what that sort of contemporary horror, as we know it, which was sort of born in them? In the mid seventies, I'm gonna say, listen, sort of started the trend and when I say we had horrid some hard, we before that, but just the sort of the contemporary, like slasher film, like that type of being chased by a demon. The way that we know now that was really born, then did you have a sense, you are making it a nap, didn't nothing's, nothing, nothing, just a job. It will have a job. It was like a gorilla filmmaking crow. It was twenty days three hundred thousand dollars fast furious, everybody was young, everybody was

way younger than you Christopher. Like way younger than younger than twenty nine Right Party said, I was forty seven size I mean John Carpenter was the oldest person. He was thirty like everybody was young, they were filmmakers, they ve all been film school and this was a feature we were all making it together and it so there was this genuine sense of that being really quite extraordinary. I don't think anybody, there's not a person involved with that movie. Who's gonna bring back

the Cavenaugh calendar and say making Halloween gonna, be big head gonna, spawned sequels bitch as quickly as we prediction, but you know what I mean, because everybody assumes that everybody knew where nobody knew anything and if you had thought that probably wouldn't work did it. If we were sleeping like on the floor,

I know there is a shot and Halloween where we were so tired that I passed out on a couch and they woke me up to do a shot, and I have corduroy marks embedded in my cheek because I was so exactly as it was exhausting and it was exhilarating and fantastic, but nobody, not one human being involved with that movie, had any sense, though, what we were making was special. It didn't feel special. It just felt like an exploitation movie, and we were all doing everything we can to make a great and then, when it started, become successful, obviously was great, but but it was not the intention. Nobody made the intention

that was going to be some sort of fantastic cult, classic, not a clue, both pro the way to do it, because you you have to just like your thing before you put your feet on the ground and you live in the moment and if you're getting around it and you can't again, it's we get the most prostration life when we're trying to control the world But when we're just living and being in the world- and you know you can control hadn t been for the most part, how you respond to the world, but you can't force the world to do your bidding. I can tell you this. I have in obviously been in show business for a very long time and the horror genre is every thing in my life, even though I have been able to go off into a lot of other things- and I say this because most people don't notice the pivot of life. Changing life hinges on a couple seconds. You don't

coming. People might look at my work and godlike. Ok, horror, movies, training places like that. Crazy. No reason I'm in hiding places. One reason only horror, movies. The reason is because John Landis, that man who directed training places is a horror, films fan and he loves, fifties, horror movies and he was doing a documentary called coming soon, those fifties, horror movie trailers and he needed somebody to narrate it and who would that be? Let's all think he called me. Never knew me never met a need, only seen my work and horror movies, but all of a sudden I this girl, showed up. You know why I'm Jamie Curtis, I'm standing here and the backlog of universal, where so many and

so narration of of horror, movie trailers that on land or shot in this documentary short that he put together that is available somewhere in the world and that's where he met me. You see. John Landis would have never laid eyes on me and would have never gotten a sense of who I was, and maybe the possibility that I could do something beyond horror movie and he single handedly put me in training places. You know, and I know this was the female lead in a paramount picture: starring, Eddie, Murphy and Dan. I cried besides. Ralph Bellamy, Dmitri and Denham Elliot

you know- and I know exactly what resistance he met when he said. Oh and I'm gonna cast genially Curtis as a failure. You know there are you kidding. I know I've read what he's written. There was huge pushed back and he was like now. That's one hiring because he had figured it out after working with me, but nobody would have made. Nobody would have made that pick it. That hinge would not have just been like. I should have had a Viet. We should catch Jamie regard. As you know, it was because of horror movies. We can handle odor you're not out, but and then from that. Was that and then John, please wrote a fish called Wanda because of training places and Jim Cameron wrote true lies because of a fish called wonder. So again you link it. All back is all back to horror movies, and here I am now sitting with you

bad jacket. You mean bird like in the Michael Jackson, sense bad, like cool bad. Now, it's sad to it, add jettison avenue. Bad feelings that is the new bad. Today, it's a boy, it's young, hey, I'm in cities, is almost desperate, not because Europe, because you're Sweden, handsome man, you can pull it off slide of. I gotta get up, and just where my then just what is your shirt say. Oh doctor doctor say lives in our horror movie than I did. I didn't mean to where I was never. This was never meant to see the day I was gonna where this and cover up the fact that I wore a shirt from a movie that I was in the one movie I ever did. Ok does matter, it's a nice sure, you're sort of Heaven. Pressed adolescence, it's fine, a little, that's virus it I'll get. You know what I'm saying it's it's fine and in my repressed adolescence I do

in places is a movie that I watch every year around the holidays. I've seen that movie, maybe a hundred and fifty times. I know that movie back to front. It is one of the best companies in the history of comedy. Please tell me that it was fun to make it was found him it was, I I remember a little bit of it remember low, but of it. I was engaged at the time to Michael Riva, who also has recently passed away and was a great production designer and a wonderful man. He was also the grand son of Marlena, Dietrich, oh well, and I lived in her apartment on park avenue when I shot training places, because the camp that you know the movie company gave me a per Diem and Maria Riva Michael's mother,

her daughter, you know. Marlena daughter was the woman responsible and adult woman responsible for my Marlena apartment. Merlin was in Paris and it was. It was sort of sunset Boulevard apartment I mean it was. It was falling apart but it was still her apartment with around bed and mirrored smoke mirrored closets the entire room, and I was going to rent it because I was given a monthly per diem. I gave that to the rivers and I lived on park new in this building and the all I remember her about it was that the linens were so expensive that it would have almost cost me my per diem to launder them. So I,

an out and out like a twin, a sheet and like a moment when quelled laid it on top of the bear, a kind of curled up, because I didn't want to launder these handmade beautiful french linen sheets which would have cost me my per diem, so I lived in anyway. That's I remember that I remember Dan Accord picked me up in his tinted. You know blacked out Mercedes and he drove me around and showed me like the build. You know he and John Basic bought downtown like John Belushi, and he when they were on Saturday night live. They bought midday do remember the blues bar that they bought. They bought a bar because they couldn't girl bar, oh right, so they bought a bar. They bought a building. They bought lots of buildings, so I remember like driving around with Danny and he showed me off

buildings downtown that beyond. That was cool, and I remember one time John Landis got very angry at Eddie Murphy for being late, like the first read through like we were all there, could have heard Eddie ambling down the hall like twenty minutes late and someone and I dont know what was said between them. I don't think Eddie was ever late again, oh wow! That's what I really remember. But whatever happened, worked it was funny you watch, it didn't go back and watch me, you don't know too good movie, you should there things too. Can you watch yourself for do not what yourself don't care? He doesn't matter that matter. Once you do the thing it's down mine, yeah it's cute, I mean it was funny. You know how many missing I'm from Sweden, let your wearing led YA lining

Inga from Sweden. The reason for that nobody knows this. You think it was written. That way. I act. It was written German and, I said to John, because I M Deborah Dormann, who was his wife, was the costume designer and so beautiful leather later Hudson and was written. She was a german girl and I I said John you, I don't do a german accent. Do you want me to go to work with a dial? A coach does now at ever any Johns Grady like out whatever and then like the week before us. Like John, do you want me to work on the german accent, not an outlet whatever and then like the day of the gig he was accept. I was like John. I dont like Octagon live, are in place to help me with my rucksack I dont I dont like. Does that what you want because, well what do you do it? Why don't you accents John is a wonder. You have people, do an accent when you do

they are now swedish great, do it I said, but it but it it doesn't make any sense, because yeah that'll be funny and sure enough. First take ya. My name is Inga, I'm from Sweden but you're wearing a horseman ya. My name is ingein from Sweden. I have no idea why that was funny, but it was funny that's great, but that's also just having the freedom to fuck around behind that wasn't here. That was a very tight script. That was a beautifully written script. It wasn't it wasn't that there was not a lot of us. You know that was not a big improv movie. That was a you know, beautifully constructed comedy script, so there wasn't damage fucking around, but in that case there was because it's funny cause Denham Elliot. It's just funny. It was was wandering loose or was known,

night, I well know who have you ever seen, John pleases. Writing handwriting. No good, Google, it there's gotta, be some sort of like you know, get well card that somebody got that they put on Ebay that well, but he has the smallest writing a human being you ve ever seen ever its tiny, its miniscule. You cannot read it. You need a magnifying glass, its tiny, tiny, tiny and meticulous writing. That just tells you that every single word was written with John. The only thing that happened is that he hired Kevin, who is by nature a talented improvise or so Kevin, would improvised, and then the rest of us would just try. Laugh, which in my case is not easy, because I laugh really easily that's good, though it's horrible, no having claimed hates me, because nobody

and I would hate me to oversee the Vienna to shot. You do something funny and I laugh you can't use the shot road like wasted, comic, goodness and I've created because of Kevin's hatred. A method where I take a needle or a toothpick, and I hold it between my fingers below the frame and then I will squeeze it really hard between my fingers just to keep yourself wearing yeah. You need a patent that no, no, ah him Alan. When I did of you with him, he was so funny all the time that I had a needle. In my hand the whole movie. I just couldn't not latter this point, just have like I'm very painful fingers very by Europe hoping happens all the time so with all of the horror and we just The the other night, by the way I do dancing in prom night little shook my tale

there are not. Yet. I guess that's all you're pretty much just into the horror of like, let's just slaughter, all the teenagers, and you know what I've seen them in a very long time. All I can tell you is it had Leslie Nielson in a just and let us start machine Jove and why, when you're a funeral of somebody and you're supposed to be sobbing bring fart and the guy next you let's loose his fart machine as you're literally a young actor. Trying to hold onto the emotion of the scene and illicit you no actual feelings on film and the guy. Next, you does Fart noises with a machine in his pocket. You just kind of want a punch inside it. Wasn't it's not cute

Funny you and finally, we meals and well, it short funny for NET Leslie Neil Sense, not funny when you're the recipient, trying to be serious road right, but then, after that it really seemed like you were kind of bouncing back and forth between whore and company in horror. Now, anyhow, I did I did it hurt? I know now I did terror train after prom night and then that was at helping to finished overdrive. Odd, don't fog was second it s a howling, don't you know why I'm in the fog? Why? Because I got no work Chris Hardware,

you're hallowing have always little him out John got work John and Deborah wrote the fog or to temper right the folk. Yes, I think she did and what happened. Is I got no work. What I got movie you we may move. In March. Seventy eight movie came out October. Seventy eight, the jobs I got after the movie hallowing number one, a Charlie's angels episode where I play for sure golfer and I'm Cheryl adds best friend and in the episode some he's trying to kill her, and so they ve song through a bridge, though we are walking over which collapses and then an alligator and she has to wrestle an alligator in the little river will sure I got that Georgia, we plausible and then the other job. I got wait for it was love

bout where my mother, JANET Lee, plays my mother on the love boat and I'm on my honeymoon and my mother, JANET Lee comes on the honeymoon crews. Ah, that's why those two jobs I got was that he got eyes. Halloween was so successful. Those are the jobs I got so what happened? Is John Carpenter felt badly and wrote the part in the fog for me and my mother, because he felt badly did you like working with her? I mean? Is it weird to work with hides weird? I mean she's, so sweet and so lovely in such a talented woman, but I mean it's hardly on golden pond. When I mean that I mean even Halloween, even when she was in age too. Oh

as you know, was of almighty. Everything was very moderately end and by the way we were all in on it we might in age too. Oh, she drives the car. She drove in psycho, You know I mean there are, you know there were beautiful homage to my beautiful mama, but I can't tell you the creatively. It was a sure it was a you know. It's not like we made beautiful boy remain aware. We where we had that kind of depth of feeling with each other. It was. It was very Almaty, and I think that I was very proud to stand there with her and watch the crew love. The fact the genitally was on the set right- and I too loved it, but you know them say yoyo right show. What I'm saying is. I did the fog and then I did just to Ireland made like for I made Halloween the fog prom night terror train

and then how, owing to five horror, movies, giver people remember all of them, but I made five of them. Young men made no more for a very, very, very long time, yeah well you'd. I wasn't bouncing back and forth. I did those, and then I and then pivoted training places virtually immediately, Danny Mcbride was on a broadcast, media have Helen TED Fella and he talked about here. Is the commission going to do you not know right Halloween like what what the fuck that sounds? Amazing and now here it is now- and it's amazing how did How did that happen? Chris Hardwicke lies sitting here. Talking to you, and people are just about, I don't know, went when. Is this on soon like soon cease as soon as like an twenty eighteen, twenty

get us out of it. So either you ve seen the movie, and you know that it's amazing or you're about to see the movie. It's just I don't know I've was died. Didn't you know I showed up into my job, I told the truth as an actor, I told the truth of what I think happens to people when their traumatized and we ve certainly seen enough evidence in the news in. Last year of the depth of emotion, rage, fear.

Shame tragedy. We ve seen in the book and the movie is about what happens to somebody when they carry that kind of trauma for forty years. So I showed up to tell that truth, Latin Danny and you know basically David. It's not Danny Danny to direct the movie. He he corroded with with them David and Geoffrey badly, but David Gordon Green. Let him be a film director and he is a film director, and so the movie is great because it David ordinary, it's a great movie, and you know I'm more starting to get the the the swirl, you know people are liking, it critics or liking it. We got the best review from rolling stone you could ever want. I am a marketing prison. I mentioned this. Yes, yes, yes, you know, I'm the marketing girl that when the first day on the set of Halloween,

In lorries house, I was sitting it getting used to this house that they have dressed as my house and on the bookshelf. There was a book called. Let us pray, p, r e, why I took a picture of it and sent it to the marketing team at Universal was like word on their journey in tagline right there Halloween. Let us pray, I was was amazing, so I might. When you this to the use it now they're. Turning about the marketing of the movie you're talking about where they go, disoriented said rolling stone gave it the best or you are so so an I'm not you know. I read reviews I've, read horrible reviews about me, like horrible horrible horrible reviews and I've read fantastic work.

So I've been, I remind myself of all the bad ones whenever there is a good one, because you know the good ones make feel great, but the bad ones make you feel like shit right and I've had all of it. I made the movie virus, I don't need to say any more show. I was minding my own business doing how, in hustle one day and somebody sent me, David fears were review for Rolling Stone Magazine and it either ends or opens with six words with a period in between you will freak via fuck out, and I wrote an email to all the marketing people at Universal and all the marketing people Emblem House, all the marketing people at a Moloch, cods company- and I

said were done, we're done. We don't need to do anything else. You put a billboard up anywhere in the world with those six words, you will freak, thus fuck out rolling stone magazine, you're done like ward,

our work is done. We should save all the money on the marketing and you know: let's go have a vacation somewhere because were drawn its various people. Don't go see that movie. We're done. Did I use it? Oh fuck! Yes, oh no, it's everywhere, but that's my point, so I'm that marketing person I'm the girl who remembers driving on the for the one or one toward Hollywood and seeing the billboard outside universal. That was black and it had the words in space. No one can hear you scream right. Nobody knew what alien was before the word. Alien was attached anywhere. They had billboards. That said in space. No one can hear you scream and I'm telling you I'm a marketing person who ever did. That is it.

Yes, and you know we are, we are done with you- can freak the fuck. Are you what it is? We have a new low hashtag. Now it's fantastic as word sort of revenue. Certainly my guy arrest suggested. You only had five minutes. What do you mean? I just think I was just told you have five minutes, because I have heard your screening, I'm doo doo doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, doo doo, the house. I am baby and I don't feel like I'm hustling with you, which is good. No, it's! I listen. It's all good, I'm happy to be here. You have to know that I just I adore you you're you're, so kind to me, while you're in a kindness is, are kind whenever kindness behaves by provide a kind gets, but look no is, I want to know the truth and what is the truth or both trying.

Be who we are in this universe. That is weird it is and where both trying to do with integrity or but trying to do with some humor and we're both very much trying to be who we are and not try to pretend to be somebody else and like to take it or leave it loved her hate it we are who we are, and I think we recognise that I think so each other and that I hope that I show up with integrity. I know you shop with integrity and that the rest of it is, as they say, dross. You know it just doesn't really matter like it's, not because the rest of it is up to us anyway right, but if we can, you know, up and- and you know, do what we're doing right here right this second, almost not saying anything is the way that I know that were you know,

You know, I don't know how you know him now but being present putting your feet on the ground, embracing who you are wearing the amazing retro gallop who are not yet which Also, a choice this is going to creep into your brain later. You're really can know what I was now. It was great now dominated attacks from you in and out Forty eight hours now you know what you're gonna get attacks. You know what the text is. Gonna say thank you and if you ever need me, you call me I will that's how it works. I am- and I am here if you ever thing too, I honestly anything you ever need. I will do for you. I swear anything you have. If you need, I will help you move with. If you ever move, I did I'm the mover of people, you dont, want you don't wanna, know someone who's better, there's no one better on a move day, showing up five thirty in the morning then me cause. I ought not only bring you coffee and bread products, I am unpaid leave,

I moved I really. Oh I'm I'm I'm master. Did they pick to write about the effective Marie Condo on the world? The woman who read wrote the book about the Japanese right right Yes, yes, you did. They pick the Connemara method, the con Marie method. Who did they pick to write about her for Time magazine when she was voted? One of the hundred most fabulous people was it was it Peter Fall It was me, oh, my god, I didn't see. They're going. I know you didn't. I do like the con Mari method well, but I added I was her before she was even born. That's really what I I I am that person. So I'm the person you wanna moved a cause I'll be like why're, you keeping a fucking sweatshirt seriously

a kiss it goodbye and send it or gave up and you're gonna be better than because I'll be like all. You might need that some time, let's just save the fit with just save it. So I do have one quick question we so Europe podcast is for nerdy

If people I mean that people love like that deep nerdy, deep background, I think so secret stuff, I'm actually not sure. I just do it. Nobody. So if I gave up a secret here on, maybe that would be something they would be interested in. Would they be interested in it or would they hate you for it and then like style listening? No, they would love it. Ok. So I'm going to give you a secret right here right now: ok, which is for you only so don't tell anybody's just between us, I'm gonna introduce you to some one and then I'm gonna introduce you know why I'm introducing it. If someone hooker so

then, where did that baby come from when you see the movie Halloween and you see Michael Myers, walk through a house and wreak some havoc. And you hear a little baby crying in its crib. That's me, two starring roles, just letting you now to that's what we call in east too, fucking starring role in gradually you an Easter egg. This is bad elastic! Happy Easter! I mean thank you for the early

Present is very well and I thank you for making this Hardwicke Jerry heard his first. I appreciate that. So are you you enjoy burrito, enjoy your shit yogurt everyone. Now they fired me. Oh don't you know what they hired Shakira, because they thought at that point that she would be more reliable. You really don't want to get your pants when you're shaking your hips on a stage literally hired. I need Andy's incomplete.