Jamie Lee Curtis Feels 'Bonded' with “Halloween” Fans 46 Years After Becoming the 'First Final Girl'
The actress wrote on Instagram that the "shared experience in a movie theater has bonded us all" in what has become her annual post about the films
Jamie Lee Curtis’s annual tributes to the Halloween movies have become something of a Spooky Season tradition, and the actress didn’t disappoint this year!
On Thursday, Oct. 31, Curtis took to Instagram to wish fans a happy Halloween with a heartfelt ode to the horror franchise that launched her career.
“46 years ago, I walked down a tree lined street singing a song of longing and innocent love and by the end of that night I became the first FINAL GIRL!” Curtis, 65, wrote of director John Carpenter’s original 1978 film in the post’s caption.
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“Throughout these years, I've had the opportunity to meet millions and millions of people whose lives were affected by that film and the subsequent films,” she continued. “That shared experience in a movie theater has bonded us all and so, on this Halloween night, I thank you for my creative life and my renewed belief that coming together as a group of people, with a common purpose, fighting for our lives together, brings out the best in us.”
“Mr. Myers excluded of course,” she joked of the franchise’s masked psycho slasher, Michael Myers.
Curtis ended by thanking Carpenter for choosing her for the role of “every girl” Laurie Strode, a role she’s returned to in multiple Halloween sequels over the years, as well as the films’ crews and her costars.
Along with the touching message, the Everything Everywhere All At Once Oscar winner included two photos. The first showed Curtis holding a photo of her Halloween character as depicted in director David Gordon Green’s three most recent entries in the franchise, who in turn holds a photo of the character in the Carpenter’s original.
The second was a doctored pic of the actress planting a kiss on her character’s forehead. Curtis previously posted the image last year along with a similar message marking the 45th anniversary of the first Halloween film. She wrote that the image “epitomizes the trauma and resilience of victims of unexpected violence and the human instinct to survive.”
“Little did any of us know that 45 years later we would be retelling and retelling that same, simple story of good versus evil, and that it would give birth to a feminist icon, the final girl,” Curtis wrote last year. “This movie and Laurie Strode, gave me my career that I continue to get to have because of her.”
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Two years ago, Curtis grappled with ending her final trilogy of Halloween films.
“As I play Laurie for the last time, in Halloween Ends, the final installment of the franchise, I am trying to figure out how to say goodbye to Laurie, who has taught me the meaning of the words ‘resilience,’ ‘loyalty,’ ‘perseverance’ and ‘COURAGE,’ ” she wrote in an October 2022 essay for PEOPLE. “It's now the end for Laurie and me. I'm weeping as I write this. I'm going to miss her. Movies are make-believe, but this is my real life. Mine has been made better by her.”