Jamie Lee Curtis Didn’t Want ‘Prosthetics’ To Become ‘Weird’ IRS Inspector In ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’

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Jamie Lee Curtis went for realistic when it came to her “Everything Everywhere All At Once” character. The “Halloween” alum plays IRS inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdra opposite Michelle Yeoh in the sci-fi action comedy but refused to use any prosthetics to play the “weird” character. “Immediately after signing up, [Curtis] would text us photos of weird outfits and weird hairdos,” co-director Daniel Scheinert told Entertainment Weekly. “There was one photo of an IRS auditor that Dan Kwan had found online — I mean, maybe she worked in a DMV, I don’t know — but this one photo, Jamie was like, ‘That’s incredible, please let me be her — please, please, please, please.’ And that photo became the reference for the hairdo and the outfit.” READ MORE: Jamie Lee Curtis Marks The ‘Bittersweet End’ For Her Role In ‘Halloween’ Films Scheinert directs the film alongside Daniel Kwan who explained, “Everyone assumes that her belly in the movie is a prosthetic, but it’s actually her real belly.

She was grateful that she was allowed to just let it out.” Curtis, who is an activist for “natural beauty”, said she “just wanted to be truthful to this woman.” “In the world, there is an industry — a billion-dollar, trillion-dollar industry — about hiding things.

Concealers. Body-shapers. Fillers. Procedures. Clothing. Hair accessories. Hair products. Everything to conceal the reality of who we are,” Curtis said. “And my instruction to everybody was: I want there to be no concealing of anything.” She added, “I’ve been sucking my stomach in since I was 11, when you start being conscious of boys and bodies, and the jeans are super tight.