Jamie Lee Curtis reveals stunning truth why her mother would have been 'incredibly' upset about Oscar-winning role

Jamie Lee Curtis thinks she is like her mom "in many, many ways" and revealed why her iconic mom, Janet Leigh, would not have been happy with her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

"My mother's been gone a long time. And today I have a freedom to be myself that my mother's generation would never have allowed," Curtis, 66, said while speaking to People about Leigh. Janet Leigh died at the age of 77 in 2004 following a successful acting career.

"My mother would've been incredibly upset at EverythingEverywhere All at Once and how I looked." The 66-year-old actress is the daughter of screen idols Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, and Jamie admits that she could see a lot of herself in her mom.


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Jamie Lee Curtis on her mother Janet Leigh

The Hollywood star - who has been married to Christopher Guest since 1984 - told People: "I tried to do everything not to be my mother. And, of course, I'm very much like my mother in many, many, ways.

"My admiration for her has swelled as my disappointments have lessened. I know that my mother was so proud of me and and what I've achieved, that she respected my husband's work and was thrilled to be a grandma."

After noting that Leigh would have "loathed" Curtis' unkempt and aged appearance in the movie, she explained that her mother's "generation was so much about your body and what you look like."

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"And the beauty. The beauty is just who she was. That's what her life was. My mother was literally jaw dropping," she continued. "But I think that would've been very hard for her to see me with my tummy sticking out. Or in [the film] Last Showgirl, for her to see me in that dressing room at 66 years old. That really would've upset her. I know her very well. I have accepted myself in a much bigger way than I think she felt she was allowed to, through her generation."

Jamie Lee Curtis won best supporting actress at the 2023 Oscars for her role in Everywhere All at Once, in which she starred as an office worker who didn't put much effort into her appearance.

Jamie believes her mom's generation was more image-orientated than her own. And she thinks that Janet would've disliked her appearance in The Last Showgirl, too.

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The veteran actress - who remains one of Hollywood's most bankable stars - explained: "Her generation was so much about your body and what you look like. And the beauty. The beauty is just who she was. That's what her life was.

"My mother was literally jaw dropping. But I think that would've been very hard for her to see me with my tummy sticking out. Or in [the film] Last Showgirl, for her to see me in that dressing room at 66 years old. That really would've upset her.

"I know her very well. I have accepted myself in a much bigger way than I think she felt she was allowed to, through her generation."