Jamie Lee Curtis wouldn’t have returned to Halloween if she knew it was a trilogy

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Jamie Lee Curtis discussed returning to her role as Laurie Strode in the recent Halloween films produced by Blumhouse, jokingly describing producer Jason Blum as “notoriously cheap.”

Okay, so this actress is a total legend in horror, especially because she’s played Laurie Strode facing off against Michael Myers in, like, seven different Halloween movies! In the 2018 film, they showed an older Laurie who was seriously messed up by everything that happened with Myers years ago. He escapes from the mental hospital and starts going after her family again, and you can really see how much that initial trauma still affects her. It’s pretty intense.

The film was generally well-received, achieving a 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and grossing $259 million globally. Jamie Lee Curtis reprised her role in two follow-up movies, Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022), though these weren’t as popular. However, the entire trilogy collectively earned $497 million for Blumhouse and Universal.

Despite the success of the recent Halloween films, Jamie Lee Curtis has said she wouldn’t have returned as Laurie Strode if she’d known the plan was for three movies.

Halloween director David Gordon Green told Jamie Lee Curtis it was a trilogy during editing

Jamie Lee Curtis recently shared at SXSW that she came back to the Halloween movies because producer Jason Blum convinced her. However, she confessed she wouldn’t have agreed to return as Laurie Strode if she’d known it meant committing to three films.

She admitted she probably wouldn’t have agreed to the project if she’d known it would become a three-part series. She explained that Jason Blum is known for making very low-budget films, and that often means not paying people very much – it’s just how he operates.

She revealed that director David Gordon Green shared the future plans with her during editing of the 2018 film. She then strategically used this knowledge to secure funding for her own creative endeavors.

During the editing and mixing process, David mentioned it was intended to be a trilogy, which surprised me. I then approached Jason Blum with a proposal, asking for a first-look deal and some funding for development. I reminded him that I still owed him two ‘Halloween’ movies, knowing he’d likely agree to my request.

The actress launched her career with a project called Mother Nature, a film and graphic novel she created about a woman who develops superpowers after her father is murdered by a dishonest oil company. Additionally, she was a producer on The Lost Bus, an Apple TV+ series starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, alongside Jason Blum.

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2026-03-16 18:23