Jamie Lee Curtis is not here for the “holiday industrial complex.”
The actress, 66, revealed her mixed feelings about the holiday season while paying a visit to The View on Friday, Dec. 20, to promote her latest film, The Last Showgirl, as well as her new Amazon Prime Video series, The Sticky.
While talking to the hosts, Curtis jokingly referred to herself as “Scrooge’s slightly slutty sister” before admitting, “I am a little Scrooge-y.”
The Everything Everywhere All at Once star went on to clarify that while she “gets” the charm of the holiday season in theory, she just can’t get behind the stress. Said Curtis, “Obviously, I’m here in New York City — the tree, it’s beautiful. I get the feeling of it. It’s just there’s so much obligation.”
The actress then compared holiday shopping to other large commercial industries.
“I feel about [the holiday season] like I feel about the beauty industry — which I think is called the beauty industrial complex — and the same way I feel about the cosmeceutical industry — which is the cosmeceutical industrial complex. I also feel [that way] about the holiday industrial complex; where it makes you feel as if you don’t do more, somehow you’re not good enough. And I have to tell you, I’m just over it!”
And she’s not alone. Back in 2021, the American Psychiatric Association reported that about 40% of adults were worried about finding holiday gifts, and about 46% of adults were worried about affording them. Additionally, approximately 20% of adults overall used words like “stress” and “anxiety” to describe their feelings about the “happiest” time of year.
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Also in the conversation on The View, Curtis also opened up about embracing being “bossy” later in life.
“I’m 66 right now, and I started [acting] when I was 19 years old. And I have been wanting to be a boss since I was 19. I’m bossy!” she declared, adding, “And I have wanted to have a greater hand in my creative life, and it just wasn’t the way that it was going. And it was fine. I loved my life. I loved the work I got to do. And I raised my daughters. You know, my life is beautiful and full.”
“But, you know,” she continued, “I turned 60, and the ‘If not now when, if not me who‘ kicked in. And [also] the idea that I needed to manifest work for myself that’s in my head.”
Curtis is currently producing and starring in The Sticky, a heist show about a Canadian syrup farmer who assembles a team to take on the country’s multi-million dollar maple syrup industry.
“[The script] just made me laugh,” Curtis said recently while talking to Prime Canada about why she chose the series as her first major producing credit. “It’s incredibly well written. It had that dark comedy sense that I love. It was about something. It was a little crazy. And it just worked.”
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In addition to her new show, Curtis is also appearing alongside Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl, a Vegas-based drama that deals with themes of growing older in a youth-obsessed culture. The film also stars Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka and Dave Bautista.
The full first season of The Sticky is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, and The Last Showgirl is now in select theaters.
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