Jamie Lee Curtis Opens Up About Final Scenes as Laurie Strode in ‘Halloween Ends’
Jamie Lee Curtis opened up about her final moments as Laurie Strode in Halloween Ends.
She teased the moment as “very satisfying.”
Saying goodbye to a character she has portrayed for over 40 years was difficult for the actress, to say the least.
After four decades, Jamie Lee Curtis and her iconic Halloween character, Laurie Strode, are parting ways. The franchise’s final film, Halloween Ends, premieres this fall, and Curtis already can’t help but tease Strode’s long-anticipated culmination as defender of her family, and enemy of Michael Myers.
Curtis and the cast wrapped filming earlier this year, and she explained to People the poignant moment that came with shooting her final scene. “Well, you know, endings are a b*tch, and endings are very difficult to do in a very satisfying way,” she said. “The last shot [filmed] was [part of] a night shoot and I was in a car—it was a close-up of me in the car. And when we got out of the car, it was 4:30 in the morning and there was the picture of my face on the screen.”
She continued: “And I realized that was the last image of Laurie Strode after 44 years of portraying her. Isn’t that amazing? And it felt very satisfying. I think people are going to lose their minds ... I think people will be very satisfied with the movie, and I think they will be very moved.”
Curtis herself was moved by the ending—while making it. She previously told People that she sobbed during her last day on set. “I’m a sobber. I said goodbye to a crew of people who have been so generous to me, who were so warm and loving to me,” she said. “Because Laurie Strode had the ‘S’ kicked out of her—she emotionally had so much going on, this sweet girl—and they were always there.”
Before the movie series returned with Halloween in 2018 after a hiatus, Curtis never imagined she’d step back into Strode’s shoes. But she did return, not just once for Halloween Kills in 2021, but again for this final film.
“The last thing I ever thought I would do is another Halloween movie five years ago,” she said. “And then now I’ve made three of them. They have been incredibly well-received. People love them. This last movie is very emotional, deeply emotional.”
In February, Curtis announced her return to normal life after submerging herself in her character for the last time. “I’m back to Jamie and I’m already cleaning and organizing and throwing things out,” she wrote on Instagram. “Although I'm doing so with a tiny limp and moving much slower as I am battered and bruised but ebullient from the experience of shooting HALLOWEEN ENDS!”
The film hits theaters on October 14.
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