“The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt,” the actress said during the 2023 SAG Awards.
As the ceremony kicked off on Sunday night, the “Halloween Ends” star, 64, made a witty remark about being the daughter of late movie stars, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
“I got my SAG card when I was 19 years old, when I signed a seven-year contract to Universal Studios and starred in an ABC TV series called the ‘Operation Petticoat,’ which was based on the movie that my father, Tony Curtis —— starred in,” Jamie Lee said as the audience in the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles erupted in laughter.
The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” actress said she was fired from that TV show a year later and thought her life was over. However, her termination led her to become part of one of the biggest horror franchises in history. “But the good news is that if I hadn’t been fired from ‘Operation Petticoat,’ I would have never had the opportunity to audition for a little tiny, no-budget horror movie called ‘Halloween.'”“The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt,” she said.Jamie Lee added, “The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt.
“I don’t pretend there aren’t any, that try to tell me that I have no value on my own,” she concluded.name-dropping all of the people in Hollywood who have benefited from being children of famous parents.
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