{"id":13016,"date":"2022-10-14T23:45:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T03:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016"},"modified":"2022-10-14T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T03:48:08","slug":"new-york-comi-con-jamie-lee-curtis-on-her-final-outing-of-halloween-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016","title":{"rendered":"New York Comi-Con : Jamie Lee Curtis on Her Final Outing of \u2018Halloween\u2019 Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> :\u00a0This is Laurie Strode&#8217;s last stand. After 45 years, the most acclaimed, revered horror franchise in film history reaches its epic, terrifying conclusion as Laurie Strode faces off for the last time against the embodiment of evil, Michael Myers, in a final confrontation unlike any captured on-screen before. Only one of them will survive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Rating<\/strong>:\u00a0R (Gore|Bloody Horror Violence|Language Throughout|Some Sexual References)<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Genre<\/strong>:\u00a0Holiday, Horror, Mystery &amp; Thriller<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Original Language<\/strong>:\u00a0English<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Director<\/strong>: David Gordon Green<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Producer<\/strong>: Malek Akkad, Jason Blum, Bill Block<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Writer<\/strong>:Paul Brad Logan, Chris Bernier, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong>:<time datetime=\"Oct 14, 2022\">Oct 14, 2022<\/time> \u00a0Wide<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Release Date (Streaming)<\/strong>:\u00a0<time datetime=\"\">Oct 14, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Runtime<\/strong>:\u00a0<time datetime=\"P1h 51mM\">1h 51m<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Distributor<\/strong>:Universal Pictures<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13024\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jamie-Lee-Curtis-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jamie-Lee-Curtis-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jamie-Lee-Curtis-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jamie-Lee-Curtis-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jamie-Lee-Curtis-696x525.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jamie-Lee-Curtis-1068x805.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jamie-Lee-Curtis-557x420.jpg 557w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jamie-Lee-Curtis-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jamie-Lee-Curtis.jpg 1234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Q&amp;A with Actress Jamie Lee Curtis Moderated by Drew Barrymore<\/strong><\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Q: After 44 years, this is the last &#8220;Halloween&#8221; [movie]. How does it feel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JLC: You know, endings are a bitch. And so is Laurie Strode. So I&#8217;m ready to end it. But I&#8217;m going to miss you [fans] so much.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I take it so seriously and I don&#8217;t take any of this for granted. You just have to understand this is so overwhelming, and I appreciate your support very, very much.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But it&#8217;s all overwhelming for me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: The first &#8220;Halloween&#8221; in 1978 was your first film. There had been some television previously in your CV. But your first film as Laurie Strode was your first film role. You were nineteen at the time. What do you remember most about making that movie, and how you felt about Laurie and yourself intersecting, at the same time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JLC: When I was nineteen, I was not like Laurie Strode. Laurie Strode was an acting part. You would have hired me to play Linda. I was a little promiscuous . . . I was a little snarky and a little promiscuous, but I was not Laurie Strode. What was amazing to me was it was an acting part. She didn&#8217;t look like me, she didn&#8217;t dress like me, she didn&#8217;t think like me. She was like the valedictorian of her class. I barely got out of high school. There was a real opportunity for me to be an actor, which I hadn&#8217;t had that opportunity before. For me, that was incredible. So I loved that opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Shooting the movie, we shot it in seventeen days. I&#8217;ve been on a world tour that&#8217;s twice as the entire time we made the movie &#8220;Halloween&#8221;. I mean, it&#8217;s insane! And I guarantee you they spent more than 25 times &#8212; maybe 30 times &#8212; the amount of money that the movie cost to promote this movie. So it&#8217;s sortof surreal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s my memory &#8212; I swear: Steely Dan, &#8220;Hey Nineteen&#8221; was a hit then, and the crew kindof dedicated it to me which thought was unbelievable. Because the crew were 25 dudes under thirty. And I was nineteen. They [went] &#8220;Here&#8217;s your song, Jamie.&#8221; So that&#8217;s my memory. &#8220;Hey Nineteen&#8221; by Steely Dan was about me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: These are the morsels and memories that we are looking for. Because now I&#8217;m not going to listen to &#8220;Hey Nineteen&#8221; anytime soon and not be thinking about that memory with you.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Let me ask you, as someone who has tried to step into shoes of genre and, not just acting and developing a character, but truly running for your life, hyperventilating, screaming and crying. You&#8217;re fighting for your life, you&#8217;re about to be killed. There&#8217;s adrenalin, breathing, crying, terror. What did you do to prepare and sustain that level of acting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JLC: Well, I&#8217;m thinking. All I knew to do &#8212; because you shoot a movie out of sequence, which is how you make movies, you don&#8217;t shoot them in order. And in a low budget movie, you really don&#8217;t shoot them in order. I numbered &#8212; I took zero to ten, ten being the most intense part of the movie, which was after she finds her friends and the chase is on. And I numbered the script so that I could know sortof a terror meter of where I was emotionally. The director should be doing that, but John was also busy with a lot of things. But I just wanted to be sure I was in the zone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to tell you something: all this is easy for me. I know that sounds like a really terrible thing to say, because people work hard at their jobs. And I work hard at my job, but it&#8217;s not a hard job for me. You guys have harder jobs than I will ever have. Yet I get all the attention. So I don&#8217;t understand why. Yet it&#8217;s not hard for me &#8212; emotion and all that stuff is not hard.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13017\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween2-1024x671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween2-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween2-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween2-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween2-696x456.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween2-1068x700.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween2-641x420.jpg 641w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween2-741x486.jpg 741w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween2.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: As a filmmaker, producer, director, actress, anyone who wants to go into storytelling in the visual form should remember that list. Because it&#8217;s true. You shoot out of sequence, you&#8217;ve got to know as the director where your character&#8217;s going to be as it&#8217;s heightened. And as a performer, you can&#8217;t be at a ten the whole time. You&#8217;ll drive people away. And if you&#8217;re a one the whole time, well, that&#8217;s just stupid.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So that is interesting craftmanship, and I&#8217;m really glad you shared that with us. That&#8217;s a teachable moment for anyone who wants to be in storytelling. So thank you.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You and Laurie have both evolved since the first film, but was there one thing of yourself that you put into Laurie in the first film?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>JLC: Well, I wanted her to be believable. I&#8217;m vulnerable and innocent and I may have come off as a sophisticate but I wasn&#8217;t. I didn&#8217;t know shit at nineteen, but I pretended maybe I did. All that John said to me &#8212; and you guys will appreciate this, because we&#8217;re in a big hall. All John said was &#8220;I want her to be vulnerable&#8221;.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now when I was nineteen &#8212; first of all, I couldn&#8217;t spell &#8220;vulnerable&#8221;, I barely got out of high school. And two, I thought that meant &#8220;weak&#8221; for some reason. I thought okay, John. We made the movie.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then I went into a late-night theater in Hollywood. It was a packed house, it was around Halloween. I stood in the back, and the movie was going on. You know, Laurie and her friends, and teasing, and Michael \u2014 all of that. And then the phone call from Linda, and Laurie looking out the window, checking on the kids, and then walking across the street.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now you guys know the sequence. It\u2019s the first use of Steadicam I\u2019d ever seen, Steadicam was a brand new tool. Ray Stella, who was the cameraman, was doing the POV of Laurie across the street and then pulling me across the street. You\u2019re cutting from Laurie to the house, it\u2019s that long walk. And in a pin-silent theater, a woman in the middle stood up and went: [shouts] \u201cDON\u2019T GO IN THERE!!! THERE\u2019S A KILLER IN THE HOUSE!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the theater \u2014 it was like the moment they were released to go: \u201cOhh NO!\u201d and the whole theater started the audience participation that we now know is a moment of the experience. It was in that second that I went \u201cOhhh. That\u2019s what he meant.\u201d He wanted her to be vulnerable so that you cared about her and you didn\u2019t want her to get hurt.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And you guys haven\u2019t wanted me to get hurt for 44 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Now you have extraordinary parents: Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, true movie star icons in their own right. What did they teach you, anything you can think of to share with us about when you decided to get into their industry?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JLC: Not really, it\u2019s not like we talked shop. It\u2019s like, who talks to their parents about their work, really? I remember my mom, early on, I think she understood that I was insecure. I was one of those people where \u2014 if we met and I was nineteen, I\u2019d look at you and I\u2019d go home and buy a pink suit and pink glasses, and maybe a big brooch [what Drew was wearing], and try that. Because I didn\u2019t know who I . I think my mom recognized that, and she said to me at one point \u201cJust be yourself.\u201d Somehow she knew that that was what I needed to hear.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now I didn\u2019t heed her advice, and if you go back on the internet and look back at haircuts and outfits and really bad choices \u2014 it was my attempt at something. I finally landed now, 64, this is it. But then I was searching. Which we all do. There\u2019s not a person here in this room that doesn\u2019t play. Who here hasn\u2019t had a bad haircut? [show of hands] Yeah, thank you. So that was my mom.<\/p>\n<p>And my dad? I swear to you guys, and is literally the truth. I didn\u2019t know him very well, I didn\u2019t grow up with him. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He said two things to me that pertained to show business, which make me laugh. One thing you\u2019re not really going to understand unless you\u2019re a film student.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We were in a car, we pulled up to a stop light. I was sitting [front seat] and he was driving, and he turned to me and he said \u201cNever let them shoot you with anything less than a fifty.\u201d Lens size. He was trying to explain that anything less than a fifty millimeter lens was going to distort the face. A 35 millimeter lens or a 28 or whatever is going to make you not look so good.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now I have a face the size of a door wedge. So the truth of the matter is a wider lens actually works because [of this] skinny face. But weirdly enough, for some reason, Tony Curtis felt like he needed to share that with me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The other thing that was crucial \u2014 and it\u2019s advice I\u2019d give to everybody alive who signs their name to something. He said \u201cRemember that whatever you sign, there are two little words in the legal description that says \u201cin perpetuity\u201d \u2014 which means \u201cforever\u201d. That what you are about to give them by presenting yourself in whatever it is they\u2019re filming, it\u2019s theirs forever.\u201d Then he said \u201cUse that as something to be reminded about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now I don\u2019t know if any of you have seen the movie \u201cVirus\u201d, but obviously I didn\u2019t heed his advice. There are a couple others that I won\u2019t mention. But \u201cVirus\u201d \u2014 that is a movie that lasts forever.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13018\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween1-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween1.jpg 1158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: if you had to guess, what would you think people would connect with Laurie about?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JLC: I think Laurie Strode is everybody\u2019s sister, everybody\u2019s friend, everybody\u2019s daughter, granddaughter, niece. She represented pure innocence and kindness. When she comes into conflict \u2014 collision, really, with Michael Myers, who is the epitome of evil \u2014 in John\u2019s understanding of vulnerability, you care about her. When I say you guys have cared for me, you have carried her \u2014 you love her, you have loved her. But I have to know \u2014 and I appreciate that \u2014 at this point, Jamie and Laurie have become woven together. There is no separation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I appreciate what you\u2019re saying, I really really do. I don\u2019t have anything in my life without Laurie Strode. Nothing. I would not have a career. I would not have a family. Everything comes from you loving her. I\u2019m telling you.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This should be flipped. It should be me with the lights on you, because I\u2019m telling you, everything good in my life came from that chic little office on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood \u2014 that was about the size of where these two chairs are \u2014 when John Carpenter and Debra Hill cast me in the part of Laurie Strode. I didn\u2019t know it then. I know it now.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of these days \u2014 hopefully, not tomorrow \u2014 I mean, I\u2019m 64, do the math, it\u2019s not in my favor \u2014 it\u2019s going to say \u201cHalloween Actress Dies\u201d. My point is, it is the permanent ink of my life, is you guys It\u2019s the permanent saturation into me. No matter what I do, whatever I do, forever. Laurie Strode is because of you. And I thank you. I truly thank God, from the deepest reserve of my being, I thank you<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: It is poetically synonymous with you. You just wrote your own obit, poetically and synonymous with \u201cHalloween\u201d. And that\u2019s what everyone here is celebrating. You\u2019ve done other horror films, it\u2019s true: \u201cThe Fog\u201d, \u201cTerror Train\u201d, \u201cProm Night\u201d and \u201cProm Night Dates\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you were making all these films, what did you do as an antidote when you were being a scream queen? How did you shake all the intensity of doing that genre of film?<\/p>\n<p>JLC: It doesn\u2019t stick with me. It\u2019s not anything I need to shed or do something to counteract it. It\u2019s just not me. I\u2019m sitting here, with you, at Comic Con, and later I\u2019ll be in my room by myself. I will think back on this, and I will try to explain it maybe to somebody in my family, and they\u2019ll tell me that the dog vomited or something. You know, life is going on around us.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a rarefied-air moment for us. But it\u2019s about being here with you right now. I will of course remember it, but I don\u2019t need to separate out anything. I\u2019m a very in-the-moment sort of person. When I\u2019m at work, I\u2019m doing the work.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: I have always admired David Gordon Green. \u201cHalloween\u201d 2018 [edition] \u2014 \u201cH2O\u201d \u2014 is the most successful horror film in the genre\u2019s history. Then you have \u201cHalloween Kills\u201d and now \u201cHalloween Ends\u201d. What do you want people to know about \u201cHalloween Ends\u201d?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JLC: The last thing I ever thought I would do is another \u201cHalloween\u201d movie. I felt like H2O was it twenty years later, I was good. You may or may not know why I was in \u201cResurrection\u201d. Do you know why?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>H2O was conceived by me \u2014 really, I\u2019m not titled as a producer. It was me calling John and Debra and saying \u201cHey, in two years the movie is going to be twenty years old. Nobody has ever made a movie and twenty years later you see the same actor, writer, director, producer. Let\u2019s do it.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 That began it. Kevin Williamson wrote the script.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13019\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween6.jepg_-1024x676.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween6.jepg_-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween6.jepg_-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween6.jepg_-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween6.jepg_-696x460.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween6.jepg_-1068x706.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween6.jepg_-636x420.jpg 636w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween6.jepg_.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: He wrote \u201cScream\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JLC: Exactly. So John ultimately didn\u2019t write it, Debra ultimately didn\u2019t produce it. I was in it. It was conceived as, what happens when you run from fear? So the conceit of the movie is that Laurie Strode has run from Haddonfield. She has escaped, she\u2019s changed her name, she\u2019s living with an assumed identity somewhere else, and she feels like she\u2019s safe.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The whole conceit of the movie was: if you\u2019re running from fear, you\u2019re dead inside. You can\u2019t be alive if you\u2019re running from fear all the time. So the conceit of the movie was that there\u2019s this moment where he comes back, and there\u2019s this moment where she has to choose \u201cI\u2019m going to fight him, and die, maybe, but I\u2019m kindof dead already, and if I win, I\u2019m going to be alive.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That was the conceit of the movie, but it was supposed to end him. Like, End.Him. That\u2019s what we talked about, that\u2019s what I signed up for, and it was all going along great. Then I got the script and it was a vague ending. It was like, whatever, a car going off a cliff, a fire \u2014 and it just kept happening over and over. And I went, \u201cHey, I thought we were ending this.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It turned out that in that moment there was some contract \u2014 I don\u2019t know who it was \u2014 and you couldn\u2019t kill him. Now this is a train that\u2019s going, I\u2019m working, I\u2019m ready to go. Kevin came up and I said \u201cI\u2019m not doing it. I\u2019m not going to tease an audience again. I came up with this idea to end it. I\u2019m not going to tease [the fans] and be like, I didn\u2019t really [mean it, just to] get you to come to the movie.<\/p>\n<p>I said \u201cI won\u2019t do the movie. I won\u2019t do it. Laurie Strode has to kill Michael.\u201d What happened was that Kevin Williamson came up with an idea. There was one of those moments of this: \u201cWhat if . . .?\u201d Between the scene in the house and the body being brought out, it turns out not to be Michael in the thing, it turns out to be a paramedic who\u2019s actually in the mask. So I ultimately kill an innocent person.<\/p>\n<p>I said to them, \u201cOkay, if you\u2019re going to do that, and it looks like Laurie Strode has ended it, my audience is going to feel like it\u2019s ended. Okay, I\u2019ll do it. But<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>you have to pay me a lot of money in the next movie, and you have to kill me in the first ten minutes of the movie because I\u2019ve now killed an innocent man. And I can\u2019t live with that.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why the end of H2O is what it is and why I\u2019m in the beginning of \u201cResurrection\u201d. But I want to address these [points] because I think it\u2019s way more important. Here\u2019s what I think occurred. As I said, I didn\u2019t think I would do another movie. Jake Gyllenhaal, who is my godson, called me and he said \u201cHey Jame, David Gordon Green \u2014 who he had worked with on the movie \u201cStronger\u201d, about the Boston bombing \u2014<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>wanted to talk to me about a \u201cHalloween\u201d movie.\u201d I was like, \u201cOkay.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>David called me and sent me a script. And what David did is this: Laurie Strode at seventeen survived<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>[Halloween]. Her friends were killed. I believe that Laurie Strode went to school November 2nd, 1978, with a bandaid on her arm, and at that moment nobody said a word to her. There was no therapy, there was go help. Laurie Strode at the age of 17 went back to school and was then the sort of freak \u2014 the girl that survived, survivor\u2019s guilt. And nobody ever talked about it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>David Gordon Green sent me a script where he said \u201cI think Laurie\u2019s been spending 40 years living behind barbed wire emotionally, physically, spiritually \u2014 and that\u2019s her only purpose in life. At the expense of her daughter and her granddaughter. She knows that Michael Myers is coming back.\u201c And it was this incredibly beautiful film about Laurie and her trauma.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ve seen the meme, so don\u2019t worry. It was funny. But the movie also made a fortune. You know what I mean. It was this beautiful movie about a woman taking control of her life. And it coincided with the women around the world standing up and taking control of their life and saying \u201cMe too\u201d, \u201cMe Too\u201d, \u201cThe time is up\u201d, \u201cMe Too\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Those two things, the wave of the women\u2019s uprising matched the wave of Laurie Strode\u2019s uprising, and together we rode that wave. It was at the moment when you go David Gordon Green was prescient. He wrote this movie two years ago, and now here we are in this moment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But then it happened again. The second movie, \u201cHalloween Kills\u201d, is about a mob uprising. It\u2019s about a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>community basically saying to law enforcement, \u201cThe system is broken. It\u2019s not working. We\u2019re going to take back the power.\u201d And it coincided with a lot of civil uprisings around the country, mostly based on the George Floyd killing. But it happened all over the country. Groups of people started to stand up, coinciding with the movie and the January 6th insurrection, and then we released the movie called \u201cHalloween Kills\u201d about a mob uprising. Again, David Gordon Green has some prescience, some understanding of society, what we\u2019re doing to each other, of how we are feeling it as a group of people in a community.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And now, he\u2019s made a movie about how we treat each other, and it\u2019s a movie about how the entire town of Haddonfield has turned against Laurie Strode \u2014 the very victim, the innocent victim whose life was brutalized by Mike Myers. It shows how pervasive \u2014 what violence does to people. And what David Gordon Green has done is slid three little Trojan horses into each of these movies. These movies are about way more than just Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. They\u2019re about who we are.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m incredibly proud of them. I\u2019m proud of him, I\u2019m proud of our crew, the writers, and I\u2019m really proud that the audiences want it. You guys have got to don\u2019t want to just see Michael walking around like this [slashes]. You want there to be something of substance because the integrity of these movies is why they\u2019re successful. They\u2019re not successful because we just run around [gestures slashing] and going \u201cOh, no! Oh, no!\u201d They\u2019re successful because they\u2019re about something, and at the center of all of it is Laurie Strode.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Every single person in this room has persevered. There\u2019s not a person in this room that hasn\u2019t had some hardship, some difficulty, in their lives; that they have continued to stand up and get up each day and say \u201cI\u2019m going to keep trying.\u201d The fact that Laurie Strode has never given up makes me want to sing the Peter Gabriel song. \u201cDon\u2019t Give Up\u201d is the message of Laurie Strode. Don\u2019t give up, people. And I love that that\u2019s her legacy, and it\u2019s her legacy because of you guys.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13020\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween4-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween4-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween4-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween4-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween4-696x459.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween4-1068x704.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween4-637x420.jpg 637w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween4.jpg 1304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What do you think \u201cHalloween Ends\u201d can do for people as a society?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JLC: We have to have hope. If we don\u2019t have hope, we\u2019re so f$@*ed. There\u2019s a moment in the new movie \u2014 there\u2019s a time jump of four years. Four years, Laurie Strode has finally been given the help she needed. She never had anything before. Now Laurie Strode has been given grief therapy, after the opera death of Karen at the end of \u201cKills\u201d. Laurie Strode has been able to \u2014 not heal, but learn to live alongside her grief, it doesn\u2019t consume her. It allows her to exist. And maybe, for a second, you get this idea that maybe Laurie Strode is going to be okay.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>a moment she\u2019s in a supermarket. We shot the scene, and I remember in my trailer at lunch, [I\u2019m like] \u201cWhy does my jaw hurt? Do I have TMJ or something? Did I grind my teeth?\u201d And I realized it was because I had smiled. I don\u2019t think I had ever seen Laurie Strode smile. Laurie Strode smiled for a second \u2014 before the ceiling crashes down on her and the rest of the drama begins.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So I do believe there\u2019s a little hope \u2014 doing the work it takes to get there. And what we do to victims, and what we do as a society.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a really interesting movie, and then it gets incredibly intense. I want to acknowledge that what David gave me also was a family. That he gave Laurie a family. A fractured family, a broken family, but a family nonetheless. I would be remiss if I do not acknowledge here on this stage the beautiful layered work of Judy Greer and Andi Matichak. They gave Laurie a grounding in reality. Because we all have families, and they\u2019re complicated. It was another gift from David.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13021\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween3-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween3-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween3-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween3-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween3-696x457.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween3-1068x702.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween3-639x420.jpg 639w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween3-741x486.jpg 741w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween3.jpg 1196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"s0vtbxLa-N8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Halloween Ends - The Final Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s0vtbxLa-N8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis :\u00a0This is Laurie Strode&#8217;s last stand. After 45 years, the most acclaimed, revered horror franchise in film history reaches its epic, terrifying conclusion as Laurie Strode faces off for the last time against the embodiment of evil, Michael Myers, in a final confrontation unlike any captured on-screen before. Only one of them will survive&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2110,12258,2114,12257,2987,2108,2115,12259,366,2111],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New York Comi-Con : Jamie Lee Curtis on Her Final Outing of \u2018Halloween\u2019 Series | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New York Comi-Con : Jamie Lee Curtis on Her Final Outing of \u2018Halloween\u2019 Series | Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Synopsis :\u00a0This is Laurie Strode&#8217;s last stand. After 45 years, the most acclaimed, revered horror franchise in film history reaches its epic, terrifying conclusion as Laurie Strode faces off for the last time against the embodiment of evil, Michael Myers, in a final confrontation unlike any captured on-screen before. Only one of them will survive....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-15T03:45:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-15T03:48:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween-ends-poster.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"906\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1290\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nobuhiro Hosoki\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nobuhiro Hosoki\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"20 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016\",\"name\":\"New York Comi-Con : Jamie Lee Curtis on Her Final Outing of \u2018Halloween\u2019 Series | Cinema Daily US\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween-ends-poster.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-15T03:45:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-15T03:48:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a39aff30168e5736b19e3486a7747bd3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween-ends-poster.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween-ends-poster.jpg\",\"width\":906,\"height\":1290},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"New York Comi-Con : Jamie Lee Curtis on Her Final Outing of \u2018Halloween\u2019 Series\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/\",\"name\":\"Cinema Daily US\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a39aff30168e5736b19e3486a7747bd3\",\"name\":\"Nobuhiro Hosoki\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nobuhiro-Hosoki-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nobuhiro-Hosoki-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Nobuhiro Hosoki\"},\"description\":\"Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick's \\\"A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo\u2019s program called \\\"Morning Satellite\\\" at the New York branch office but he didn\u2019t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.cinemadailyus.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?author=2\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"New York Comi-Con : Jamie Lee Curtis on Her Final Outing of \u2018Halloween\u2019 Series | Cinema Daily US","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"New York Comi-Con : Jamie Lee Curtis on Her Final Outing of \u2018Halloween\u2019 Series | Cinema Daily US","og_description":"Synopsis :\u00a0This is Laurie Strode&#8217;s last stand. After 45 years, the most acclaimed, revered horror franchise in film history reaches its epic, terrifying conclusion as Laurie Strode faces off for the last time against the embodiment of evil, Michael Myers, in a final confrontation unlike any captured on-screen before. Only one of them will survive....","og_url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016","og_site_name":"Cinema Daily US","article_published_time":"2022-10-15T03:45:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-10-15T03:48:08+00:00","og_image":[{"width":906,"height":1290,"url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween-ends-poster.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nobuhiro Hosoki","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nobuhiro Hosoki","Est. reading time":"20 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016","name":"New York Comi-Con : Jamie Lee Curtis on Her Final Outing of \u2018Halloween\u2019 Series | Cinema Daily US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween-ends-poster.jpg","datePublished":"2022-10-15T03:45:33+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-15T03:48:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a39aff30168e5736b19e3486a7747bd3"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween-ends-poster.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Halloween-ends-poster.jpg","width":906,"height":1290},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13016#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"New York Comi-Con : Jamie Lee Curtis on Her Final Outing of \u2018Halloween\u2019 Series"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/","name":"Cinema Daily US","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a39aff30168e5736b19e3486a7747bd3","name":"Nobuhiro Hosoki","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nobuhiro-Hosoki-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nobuhiro-Hosoki-150x150.jpg","caption":"Nobuhiro Hosoki"},"description":"Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick's \"A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo\u2019s program called \"Morning Satellite\" at the New York branch office but he didn\u2019t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.cinemadailyus.com"],"url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?author=2"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}