‘Scream Queen’ Jamie Lee Curtis farewells Laurie Strode and Michael Myers in ‘Halloween Ends’

Well, you came in right after they made me do a big fan appreciation video that had me feeling feelings. I’m feeling a lot of feelings. I’m trying to receive at all, and it’s a lot of attention on me. I am somebody who likes a little bit of attention, but this month of the tour is starting to take its toll. There’s like a level of saturation of appreciation. I’m trying to receive it all. And I get it. And I’m feeling it. And it’s beautiful.

The beautiful part of movies is that they live on forever and ever and ever and ever. As long as there are people, these movies will exist. Because that’s the beauty of the movies, so I feel like I’ve left my message in the work and in the character and the integrity of the character and my deep love and appreciation of Laurie and her indomitable spirit of survival and courage, and grace. And even though for Jamie, it’s going to be emotional to say goodbye to it all. I also now have a creative life because of the Halloween movies that I didn’t ever have. And so this set of movies has also given me a freedom creatively that I’ve been longing for a long time. So, you know, the movies speak for themselves. I get to say thank you, and then I get to move forward and do other work.

The beautiful thing is I’m not the filmmaker. I’m the actress. I have my improv mature in the story. It’s a big swing of a movie. It’s a big creative swing. It’s a big emotional swing. And I think that audiences so far, what we’re hearing is that they get it they understand what we’re doing. They understand what we’re going for thematically, and they feel that they have seen a conclusion to this inevitable battle between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode.

Well, we know historically that evil doesn’t die. It changes shape. So I think it’s more a metaphor for that. Evil lives inside all of us. And it says much a movie about we are all monsters as it is that Michael Myers is a monster. So I think it poses some good questions. I don’t know about reincarnation. The whole sci-fi aspect of that, I’m not a fan of that genre. I’m a practical person.

He is not great. He is a piece of sh*t. Honestly, it’s just a rubber mask. It’s not Michael. I understand people are going to try to be Michael. I understand why the mask was so scary. But evil is evil. And Michael Myers was evil; a mask isn’t evil at all. It’s just rubber.

Of course! We’re here alive, artists creating in our time, and it breeds other art. I mean, it’s just the nature of the beast. The beautiful John Steinbeck quote is about the art of creation and that it happens in one person. Nothing good is ever created by two people. It’s one person who creates it, and then another people can build on it. And so, as we all are creating different things, these young actresses are creating their own spirits in the work, their own path, their own legacies.

My legacy as Laurie Strode is that you never give up. That you never give up trying and that you believe in yourself. That through anything, you can make it, and that’s a beautiful legacy. And I don’t know what their legacies are going to be because they’re young and developing them. I don’t know what the stories are. But as long as they do it with truth and integrity, they don’t approach it like a joke. They’ll be great.

I’m just going to reconnect with my people. I’ve been gone for a month. I have a dog. My people want me home, and my life is very quiet. I live a very private, quiet life. I’m not all this. These clothes all get donated, and I wear black sweatpants and fuzzy Birkenstocks and read Steinbeck novels and Wallace Stegner.