Jamie Lee Curtis on Saying Goodbye to Laurie Strode in ‘Halloween Ends’: ‘She Is My Legacy’

variety.com:

Angelique Jackson When Jamie Lee Curtis walked the black carpet outside the TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday night for the world premiere of “Halloween Ends,” she was less than 24 hours away from becoming permanently cemented into Hollywood history — or at least, more so than she’s already been — with a hand and footprint ceremony on Wednesday morning. “I’m, of course, thrilled, honored,” Curtis told Variety about being immortalized outside the theatre. “My family will be there with me, friends, colleagues, collaborators, the community of artists.

I’m an artist, I get to make this work. I didn’t think I’d be an actor. I thought I’d be a cop. So the idea that I get to be an actor and do this beautiful work is really very powerful to me.” The back-to-back events capped an emotional world tour for the scream queen as she says goodbye to Laurie Strode, a character she’s played for the last 44 years, since John Carpenter’s original “Halloween” in 1978.

Over the last few weeks, she’s been reflecting on the legacy of the character and what she’s meant to audiences. “The universal understanding of Laurie Strode is that as this original ‘final girl’ she never gave up, always pushing through no matter what.

It is beyond comprehension that that is my legacy,” Curtis shared. “I feel like I haven’t given up, that I have continued to try, but not at the level of Laurie Strode.” She continued: “What I’ve gotten from her is way more than she’s gotten from me.