Curtis bows out of awards events
Jamie Lee Curtis has tested positive for COVID -19, sharing her fate just days after attending at the 80th Golden Globes.
The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” star, who became an instant meme when she celebrated her co-star Michelle Yeoh’s first Golden Globe win during the ceremony, took to social media Friday to reveal her positive diagnosis.
The “Knives Out” star wrote on Instagram, “Sadly, this head cheerleader is not going to be at all the weekend festivities cheering on her friends and colleagues. Life on life’s terms.”
The 64-year-old scream queen shared an image of several at-home testing kits.
“I’m glad that there are all these home tests available so that I didn’t go to the @americanfilminstitute lunch and spread my germs. I was SO looking forward to going to the @bafta tea and the @criticschoice awards as a nominee and member of a motley crew! I’m so proud of these people, and I look forward to cheering them on through my TV set. Stay safe out there people,” she wrote.
Curtis was nominated for supporting actress in a motion picture Golden Globe for her role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” but the prize went to “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” star Angela
Bassett.
She was seated alongside many fellow celebrities for the award show and cameras caught her throwing her hands in the air with glee when Yeoh won her award. The action shot was quickly immortalized on social media.
“Once a cheerleader. ALWAYS a cheerleader. My Bae won a Golden Globe. Her first nomination and win,” she wrote on Instagram, later adding, “I am quite stunned that a moment of pure JOY on Tuesday
night is now a T shirt and a movement on Thursday! Proud and humbled and EXCITED!”
Curtis, daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, has built a remarkable career since age 19, punctuated by her roles in the cult “Halloween” franchise, action flick “True Lies,” heist comedy “A Fish Called Wanda” and role-reversal comedies “Trading Places” and “Freaky Friday.” On TV, she starred in “Scream Queens,” “Anything But Love” and “Operation Petticoat.”
She was name-checked in New York magazine’s “nepo-babies” Vulture feature last month and took to Instagram to defend the children of celebrities.
“For the record I have navigated 44 years with the advantages my associated and reflected fame brought me, I don’t pretend there aren’t any, that try to tell me that I have no value on my own,” she said. “It’s curious how we immediately make assumptions and snide remarks that someone related to someone else who is famous in their field for their art, would somehow
have no talent whatsoever.
“I have come to learn that is simply not true.”