Overview

• Jamie Lee Curtis told The Guardian that she has been “self-retiring for 30 years,” preparing to exit Hollywood on her own timeline to shield her career from ageism.
• She said she wants to “leave the party before I’m no longer invited” after witnessing her parents lose roles as they aged.
• The actress condemned plastic surgery as a “disfigurement of generations of women,” calling the cosmeceutical industrial complex’s impact “genocide.”
• Curtis warned that AI-driven filters have “aided and abetted” a shift toward artificial beauty ideals that fuel cosmetic procedures.
• Despite plans to step back, she is set to star in Freakier Friday on August 8, The Lost Bus at TIFF in September, and James L. Brooks’s Ella McCay.