When I was watching Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All At Once in that scene where she was talking to the couple played by Yeoh and Quan, I was impressed by how funny and absurd she was at the same time. Her character was just being a dick on this couple who were obviously having a hard time paying their taxes.
A few months later, her name was being floated around as an Oscar nominee, and I was very ecstatic for her! My brothers, Vic and Michael, are big fans of hers because of the Halloween franchise and A Fish Called Wanda.
I saw A Fish Called Wanda as a young 17 year old on VHS tape mind you (do you still remember those?) and I was impressed at how egregiously funny it was! Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, John Cleese were all delightfully crazy and Jamie Lee Curtis topped the cake by being sly and sexy. I fell in love with her then and there LOL
I thought she was a comedic actress but turned out she can do a lot of other stuff, from action (True Lies), horror (Halloween) and again, comedy. I admit I was disappointed when she missed the Oscar Best Actress list of 1989 but when you do check the nominees - it was like the Super Bowl of Best Actresses that year with Meryl Streep (A Cry in the Dark), Sigourney Weaver (Gorillas in the Mist), Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons) and the eventual winner that year Jodie Foster (The Accused).
She did however, get a Golden Globe nod for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
Fast forward three decades later, she finally gets the recognition from her peers through EEAO and we are all ecstatic for her! Her pedigree though (both her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh) both got Oscar nominations so it was not farfetched that she too could achieve it.
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