Jamie Lee Curtis says she plans to leave Hollywood on her own terms.
The 66-year-old actress spoke to The Guardian recently about her experience aging in Hollywood. After being in Hollywood for decades, Jamie says that she plans to leave the industry on her own, referring to her plans to exit Hollywood as “self-retiring.”
Jamie says she witnessed the way her parents, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, were treated as they aged in Hollywood and doesn’t plan to experience the same thing.
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“I witnessed my parents lose the very thing that gave them their fame and their life and their livelihood, when the industry rejected them at a certain age,” Jamie said, calling it “very painful” to watch her parents age out of Hollywood after having successful careers.
Jamie went on to say that she’s been “self-retiring for 30 years.” The actress told the publication, “I have been prepping to get out, so that I don’t have to suffer the same as my family did. I want to leave the party before I’m no longer invited.”
Jamie is starring in Freakier Friday, in theaters August 8, so it doesn’t seem like she’ll be ready to retire for quite some time, but she’s ready when the time comes.
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