Halloween Kills star Jamie Lee Curtis said in a recent interview the reason the latest film in the Halloween franchise has been received so well is that it’s hitting a cultural nerve about broken systems in the real world.
“It was prescient because what [director David Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride] and company figured out was that we were on the verge of a wave of women coming into their own understanding of trauma,” Curtis told The Hollywood Reporter.
The actor, who has portrayed Laurie Strode in the horror film series for decades, further attributed the film’s ability to connect with the “collision” between her character’s trauma and the growing momentum of the #MeToo movement.
“There’s a line in Halloween Kills that goes, ‘The system is broken,'” Curtis recalled. “Well, you know, the system is broken all over the world and people are rising up all over the world in collective rage against the machine and unjust systems.” She added that the third film in Green’s Halloween Trilogy, Halloween Ends, “amplifies” the first two movies’ themes “on a sort of existential level.”
Additionally, the actress drew parallels between the evil that exists in the world and the inherently evil Michael Myers character, noting, “We’re a divided world, and in America, we’re a divided country — and I think evil is seemingly winning a bit lately. That doesn’t mean it’s going to always happen, but evil has seemingly won many times throughout history. And I hope that this film is as much a mirror to the world as it is an entertainment for people who love movies.”
Curtis revealed in the same interview that the Halloween Kills cast and crew paid a touching tribute to the Laurie Strode character on the actor’s final day of filming. Specifically, Curtis recalled, “…When I approached the set, the entire crew were standing in silent solidarity with their hands behind their backs. And everyone was wearing a name tag. And the name tag said, ‘We are Laurie Strode.'”
Curtis first appeared as Laurie Strode in 1978’s Halloween. She reprised the role in both the Extended Edition version of that film as well as Halloween II, which were both released in 1981. She returned as the character in Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002) and Halloween (2018).
Directed by David Gordon Green, Halloween Kills is set to arrive in theaters Oct. 15. Additionally, the third installment in the newest trilogy, Halloween Ends, has a confirmed release window of 2022 and will possibly see the end of Laurie Strode’s story.
Source: THR
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