Jamie Lee Curtis Interview

Jamie Lee Curtis Interview Audra Lowe: Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is a woman whose stunt pretty much everything in show business. And she’s also a successful children book author. We caught up on with her LA where the May cover shoot of More Magazine and that is where she paid tribute to her mom actress Janet Lee. One thing you might now know about Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie Lee: I'm actually when left to my own devices. I'm actually really quite. I crave solitude and quite. Audra Lowe: But when we met up with the actress, author, wife and mother on the set of her fourth more cover photo shoot. She was really open and gracious and she talked about growing up and following in her very famous parent’s footsteps. Jamie Lee: It’s like the Grauman's Chinese of my life. I just stepped in my parents footsteps but my mother particularly, I started very young. She was 19, I was 19. We both ended up in horror films, sort of seminal horror films. I mean it’s crazy how much I followed her in so many ways in the really positive ways and in some very negative ways too. Audra Lowe: Jamie’s tenth children book is coming out this fall. Jamie Lee: It’s about all mothers. It’s called My Mommy Hang the Moon, a love story about a love story between a child and its mother. In making that book and talking about my mother, I realized that I've never talked about my mother who was a very famous woman and who died five years ago. And so for more I decided to write, I've never going to write a book ever. But it was my way of talking about my mother, the way I might if I wrote a book about my life, about my relationship with her. Its really loving but it’s really honest. Audra Lowe: And as we all know, Jaime’s parents Tony Curtis and Janet Lee were incredibly huge movie stars. Jamie Lee: It was an easy relationship for me or for her. And one that I have had to wrestle my own identity and it does take a lifetime to forge your own --. It’s taken me a really long time to figure all of that out and I've done it a little bit in the public eye. I've certainly done it with the patience and support of my family. And by the way, the patience and support of my own mother who watched me struggle with it. And there was some struggle with us and I can tell you that if she died everything I ever wanted to say, I was able to say and she’s to me and I miss the good now. I have no memories of the disappointments in her mothering and in my childing. Audra Lowe: She’s very candid about pretty much everything. Jamie Lee: People used to say how much they loved to tour to me and I used to hate to hear it because it’s like, okay, I'm sure like my friend Maria Shriver, I'm sure everyday someone comes up and says, your mother was so great. She did this or she did this, she was the most and I know that at some point you go, thank you, I know she’s wonderful. And then you're like geez, can I ever just get a break and not hear about how wonderful my mother was. And now, when someone says it, I get to go, I know, wasn’t she incredible. And so I've really come full circle now and I'm in the full appreciation mode. And by the time I die, she will be a saint in my eyes because she survived an incredible time in Hollywood. Audra Lowe: Not only is she confident in who she is but how she looks dimples and all. Jamie Lee: And the truth of the matter is my figure looks really good. I mean in this, I'm going to look like, wow, she look --. And went like this, you’d go, oh I have that too. There’s nothing I love more than hearing a celebrity talk about their exercise regime because if I'm working mother and I've got two kids at home. I'm going to say FU. Audra Lowe: I could tell you from my experience, Jamie is a funny, funny lady and she also says that the success of her more than 20 years of marriage to actor director Christopher Guest is that their total opposites. Jamie is going to be back on the big screen soon in a new comedy called You Again. And you can also read her entire article of the May issue of More magazine.