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Jamie Lee Curtisadmits that it took some time before she understood the meaning behindEverything Everywhere All at Once.
While walking the red carpet for theOscars 2023, the 64-year-old actress andfirst-time Academy Award nomineesaid that the story for universe-hopping dramedy took time to unravel. Curtis plays IRS auditor Deirdre Beaubeirdra in the hit film, which starsMichelle Yeohas Evelyn Wang, a Chinese immigrant swept up in a wild adventure and dropped into other universes on a mission to save her world.
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On untangling the character, theHalloweenstar explained her the initial hitch with the script — and what flipped it.
“Well I didn’t understand it at all, I understood her and that was my job — they were asking me to be her. And so because I understood that, I said yes,” Curtis said. “I didn’t understand the movie until two things — I saw the sequence at the laundromat being filmed where the husband and the wife reunified and the mother and the daughter reunified, and I went, ‘Oh, this a movie about love.’ And then I saw it at South [SXSW] the first time on the screen and I thought, ‘What a masterpiece, this is a movie that’s going to change cinema.’ "
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After expressing shock from her table about her name being called, Curtis kissed her costar Yeoh on the lips and made her way to the stage, where she got emotional and said, “Come on!” as she got a standing ovation.
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