MOTHER NATURE
HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY JAMIE LEE CURTIS IS BREAKING NEW BOUNDARIES WITH HORROR GRAPHIC NOVEL
WORDS: DARREN SCOTT
ONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER. When SFX sits down to chat with bona fide legend Jamie Lee Curtis it’s only been days since she won her – long-overdue – Academy Award.
Everything Everywhere All At Once scooped a whopping seven wins, including Best Picture.
Even better, Curtis picked up her Oscar for a role in a sci-fi film. “A sci-fi drama really,” she considers, “but a sci-fi film with a dildo fight, a butt plug martial arts fight and deep emotion. I’m thrilled that something as diverse as the movie was recognised in such a beautiful way.”
When she puts it like that, it must’ve been interesting when she first read the script… “I didn’t really understand it,” she admits. “But I also understood that it wasn’t my job to understand the script. My job is to understand who the character is that they’re asking me to play. I did understand her very well. And in understanding her then I was able to interpret her, and what was going on in the movie itself is sort of none of my business, to be honest.”
She says the outpouring of love online that followed her win made her happy, but adds, “I’m just not following it because it’s honestly just too much. It’s just been… it’s overwhelming.”
NOVEL APPROACH
As much as we’d love to chat sex toys in sci-fi with Curtis, she has another project to, er, plug that also ticks all our boxes – an eco-horror tale called Mother Nature, which marks her graphic novel debut.