When Jamie Lee Curtis was 25 years old, a colleague made a comment that has stuck with her for more than four decades.
Speaking with Sharyn Alfonsi on the US 60 Minutes, Curtis revealed the cinematographer on her 1985 film Perfect made a comment that prompted her to get plastic surgery.
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”He was like, ‘Yeah, I’m not shooting her today. Her eyes are baggy.’ I was 25,” Curtis said.
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“For him to say that was very embarrassing. So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery.”
Curtis said she immediately regretted her decision to have the surgery, admitting it’s still something she thinks about today.
”That’s just not what you want to do when you’re 25 or 26,” she said.
“I regretted it immediately and have kind of, sort of regretted it since.”
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Perfect starred Curtis as an aerobics instructor alongside John Travolta and was shot by Gordon Willis, the cinematographer behind films including Manhattan and The Godfather Trilogy.
While we could simply guess Willis was the man behind the four words that led Curtis to seek plastic surgery, we don’t have to.
This isn’t the first time the actress has detailed the interaction, previously naming Willis as the man behind the comments in an interview with The New Yorker back in 2019.
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”One day, I was on the movie Perfect, and Gordon Willis, the great cameraman, looked at me and said, ‘Yeah, I’m not shooting her today’,” the Freaky Friday star shared.
Curtis went on to explain that she “had an eye job” as soon as the movie wrapped adding, “that’s when I found Vicodin, and the cycle of addiction began with that.”
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Now 26 years sober, Curtis shared that she never worried that sharing her addiction struggles would impact her career.
”I think I worried more that selling yoghurt that makes you s— was gonna impact my career,” she laughed, referring to her Activia partnership, “than for me to acknowledge that I had an addiction.”
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