Jamie Lee Curtishonored her late movie star parents at theSAG Awards 2023.
“Honestly this morning I was grabbing my jewels to put on for tonight and I saw it in a little box and I thought about my parents and I wouldn’t be here without them,” she said of herparents Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
“I literally wouldn’t be here without them, just biologically wouldn’t be here without them, and I am a product of this town, these people. I never would have been an actor, it was a total fluke I became an actor. And so, I don’t know, I just wanted to bring them here tonight.”
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She continued, “I came here with my mother the first time I was nominated and I really thought a lot about my parents and their story a lot.”
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“But my sister Kelly and I were born from love. My father was from Hungary and my mother was from Denmark, and they had nothing and they became these monstrous stars in this industry. My parents were actors. And I married an actor [Christopher Guest].”
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Curtis was first nominated for a SAG Award in 1995 for the spy comedyTrue Lies, which she starred in alongsideArnold SchwarzeneggerandBill Paxton.
On Sunday, she was up againstBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever’sAngela Bassett,The Whale’sHong Chau,The Banshees of Inisherin’sKerry Condon, and herEverything Everywhere All at OncecostarStephanie Hsu.
Speaking to PEOPLE after her win, she made a special point of mentioning her fellow nominees and how they had all bonded as friends during the awards season.
“Obviously I’m surprised — and just happy and moved,” said Curtis about her award. “The nicest part for me of this whole thing is I’m now friends with all the women who I’m in competition with. We didn’t know each other except Steph [Hsu] I knew — I didn’t know these other women and now I do and now they know me and that is the most important thing - that we know each other as humans. And so the rest of this is whatever, you know what I mean?”
source: people.com
