Why Jamie Lee Curtis asks crew members to wear name tags on set
nypost.comKevin Hart‘s SiriusXM podcast Gold Minds to reveal that she has an unusual practice on set: asking the members of the crew to wear name tags. “There’s something really uneven about our position on a set, on a movie, in this arena,” the Oscar winning actress, 65, said. “You guys know our names, we don’t know yours.
There’s something inequitable to me about that,” she added. Aside from being a Hollywood legend in her own right, Curtis is a “nepo baby,” the term first popularized in 2022 for actors who had parents in showbiz.
Curtis, who is married to “The Princess Bride” actor Christopher Guest, and is the daughter of “Psycho” actress Janet Leigh and “Some Like It Hot” actor Tony Curtis, called the conversation around nepo babies “damaging” in a 2022 Instagram post. “I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby,” she wrote at the time.
She added, “It’s curious how we immediately make assumptions and snide remarks that someone related to someone else who is famous in their field for their art, would somehow have no talent whatsoever.” The “Everything Everywhere All At Once” actress said, “I have suited up and shown up for all different kinds of work with thousands of thousands of people and every day I’ve tried to bring integrity and professionalism and love and community and art to my work.
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