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Jamie Lee Curtis Charts Phased Exit From Hollywood While Denouncing Beauty Industry Trends

She calls plastic surgery and AI filters a 'genocide' of natural beauty in detailing her plan to take only select roles.

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The cast of Knives Out on the red carpet
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Overview

  • Drawing on her parents’ struggles with ageism, Curtis reveals she has been mapping a self-directed, 30-year retirement plan to leave Hollywood on her own terms.
  • In a Guardian photoshoot she posed with oversized wax lips to highlight her critique of AI beauty filters and plastic surgery.
  • Curtis confirms she will lead Freakier Friday when it opens August 8, star as Jessica Fletcher in a Murder She Wrote reboot and headline the Scarpetta adaptation with Nicole Kidman.
  • She credits The Bear with freeing five decades of artistic range and is set to return in its upcoming fifth season.
  • Now 66, the Oscar winner insists on retaining control over her final roles and said she has no problem telling people to “back the f--- off.”