Jamie Lee Curtis reveals a major lesson that turning 60 made her learn
Jamie Lee Curtis is dishing on how entering her 60s made her realize that she has no time to waste, especially on toxic people.
In a recent chat with AARP’s Movies for Grownups for a story, the 67-year-old actress got candid about aging and shared she once called the industry “ageist, misogynist and pigeonholing.”
“I turned 60 and realized I was going to die sooner than later,” Curris confessed.
She continued, “Sooner than later means sooner than later. And that understanding meant I have no effing time to waste. No time to waste on toxic people, on relationships that don’t serve me.”
“I’ve been self-retiring since I was 30, saying, ‘I’ll get out of this,’ because the industry I’m in is a cruel, cruel industry, particularly with aging.”
She added, “There’s a dismissal of people. I watched it very much with my parents (Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh). So I have just decided to embrace that.”
Curtis further shared that with aging comes “freedom,” as the Freaky Friday star shared she now embraces her looks more wholeheartedly.
“[Freedom means] accepting my crepey skin and showing it anyway, I understand what I look like. I look in the mirror. I get it. And there’s no need for me to alter it,” she noted.
The Bear star added, “Everything I do has to come from emotion, and to me, emotion is freedom. I feel people. That has been a gift for me as an actor because all acting is emotion with words.”