Jamie Lee Curtis admits she's 'very much like' Janet Leigh
Jamie Lee Curtis has acknowledged that she's very similar to her late mom, Janet Leigh.
Jamie Lee Curtis thinks she's like her mom "in many, many, ways".
The 66-year-old actress is the daughter of screen idols Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, and Jamie admits that she could see a lot of herself in her mom, who passed away in 2004, aged 77.
The Hollywood star - who has been married to Christopher Guest since 1984 - told People: "I tried to do everything not to be my mother. And, of course, I'm very much like my mother in many, many, ways.
"My admiration for her has swelled as my disappointments have lessened. I know that my mother was so proud of me and and what I've achieved, that she respected my husband's work and was thrilled to be a grandma."
Despite this, Jamie thinks her mom would've "loathed" her appearance in Everything Everywhere All at Once, the 2022 comedy-drama film.
The actress explained: "My mother's been gone a long time. And today I have a freedom to be myself that my mother's generation would never have allowed. My mother would've been incredibly upset at Everything Everywhere All at Once and how I looked."
Jamie believes her mom's generation was more image-orientated than her own.
And she thinks that Janet would've disliked her appearance in The Last Showgirl, too.
The veteran actress - who remains one of Hollywood's most bankable stars - explained: "Her generation was so much about your body and what you look like. And the beauty. The beauty is just who she was. That's what her life was.
"My mother was literally jaw dropping. But I think that would've been very hard for her to see me with my tummy sticking out. Or in [the film] Last Showgirl, for her to see me in that dressing room at 66 years old. That really would've upset her.
"I know her very well. I have accepted myself in a much bigger way than I think she felt she was allowed to, through her generation."
