Overview
- Curtis recounted that producer Ray Stark asked Janet Leigh to let her 12-year-old daughter audition for The Exorcist, but Leigh refused.
- She praised her mother for safeguarding her childhood and contrasted that experience with Drew Barrymore’s early start.
- Linda Blair ultimately played Regan in the 1973 film and received an Academy Award nomination for the performance.
- Curtis’ film breakthrough came later at age 19 with Halloween, which set the course for her long association with horror.
- Coverage also notes reports that Scarlett Johansson has signed on for a Mike Flanagan–led Exorcist reboot from Blumhouse-Atomic Monster.