Jamie Lee Curtis Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Jamie Lee Curtis said she's been slowly planning her retirement from Hollywood after watching her famous parents get "rejected" from the industry as they aged. During a recent interview with The Guardian, the Oscar winner, daughter of industry icons Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, criticized the way older actors, especially women, are treated in Hollywood. "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," the 66-year-old said. "I watched them reach incredible success and then have it slowly erode to where it was gone. And that's very painful." Related Stories Movies Lindsay Lohan Wants to Do "Some More Serious, Dramatic Roles" After 'Freakier Friday' TV Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carrie-Anne Moss Break Down 'FUBAR' Season 2 While the Freakier Friday actress has starred in dozens of projects throughout her career, she admitted that she's always been one step ahead and actually "self-retiring for 30 years." "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," she added. Curtis most recently reprised her role as Tess Coleman in the upcoming Freaky Friday sequel, opposite Lindsay Lohan, though now she's playing a grandmother. While the actress loved being able to revisit that story, bringing it to a new generation, it didn't come without its own challenges. Curtis also told The Guardian that she found her conventional aesthetic look in Freakier Friday, where she "had to look pretty, I had to pay attention to [flattering] lighting, and clothes and hair and makeup and nails," harder than her role as a messy alcoholic in The Bear. Over the years, the Everything Everywhere All at Once star has always spoken highly about the "beautiful gift of aging," despite the negative light Hollywood casts on getting older. She told AARP: The Magazine in 2023 that she's lucky to "continually have had an opportunity to expand." "I'm talking about expanding intellectually," she added at the time. "I'm an autodidact and an opsimath - a late-in-life learner. I feel very fortunate that I'm having more creative opportunities - I'm getting to do what I've wanted to do since I was a teen. I'm starting to produce and direct things." THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Heat Vision 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' Rockets to Solid $118M U.S. Box Office Launch, $218M Globally Zar Amir Ebrahimi 'In the Land of Arto': Camille Cottin, Zar Amir Ebrahimi Journey Into Armenia and Its Past (Exclusive Clips) x-men Rebecca Romijn Isn't "Sure" She's Done Filming for 'Avengers: Doomsday' Because "They Haven't Finishing Writing" the Script Winona Ryder Winona Ryder Says She Lost Film Role Over 'Heathers': "They Thought It Was Making Fun of Teen Suicide" Heat Vision Ryan Gosling Debuts New 'Project Hail Mary' Footage to Laughs at Comic-Con Richard Pryor Marlene Warfield, Actress in 'Network' and 'The Great White Hope,' Dies at 83 Heat Vision 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' Rockets to Solid $118M U.S. Box Office Launch, $218M Globally Zar Amir Ebrahimi 'In the Land of Arto': Camille Cottin, Zar Amir Ebrahimi Journey Into Armenia and Its Past (Exclusive Clips) x-men Rebecca Romijn Isn't "Sure" She's Done Filming for 'Avengers: Doomsday' Because "They Haven't Finishing Writing" the Script Winona Ryder Winona Ryder Says She Lost Film Role Over 'Heathers': "They Thought It Was Making Fun of Teen Suicide" Heat Vision Ryan Gosling Debuts New 'Project Hail Mary' Footage to Laughs at Comic-Con Richard Pryor Marlene Warfield, Actress in 'Network' and 'The Great White Hope,' Dies at 83