Jamie Lee Curtis reprised her role for Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002) and Halloween (2018) prior to Halloween Kills, due Friday (Oct. 15). Image Press Agency

Jamie Lee Curtis stars in scary movies, but she never watches them: 'I hate them'

By Megan Armstrong | Last updated Oct 13, 2021 12:06 AM ET

Jamie Lee Curtis has starred as Laurie Strode in the Halloween franchise, but in this case, art is not imitating life.

When asked by Kelly Clarkson if she watches scary movies, the 62-year-old actress made her stance perfectly clear: "I hate them. I scare easily. As a child, I scared easily. And I think it's probably a good actress in these films because I'm just genuinely terrified all the time. If we had more time, I'd pull up a picture of me as an infant, and you'd be like, 'Oh, wow,' because I looked startled and terrified."

"Who would go into a haunted house?!" Curtis added.

Halloween premiered in 1978, and the John Carpenter horror film followed a simple but chilling premise (h/t IMDb): "Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again."

Strode, a high school student, is one of Michael's targets.

Curtis reprised her role for Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002) and Halloween (2018) prior to Halloween Kills, due Friday (Oct. 15).

Halloween Ends, due next year, is meant to round out the trilogy that began with 2018's Halloween "reinvention," and Curtis told Total Film in July, "Given what I know about the next movie, I think it will be the last time that I play [Laurie]."

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