Entertainment Europe: Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween - Jamie Lee Curtis returns for the latest installment in the Halloween franchise.
TAPE: EF02/0588
IN_TIME: 14:26:31
DURATION: 3:03
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SHOTLIST
1. Clip: 'Halloween: Resurrection'
2. SOT Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode) - on the legacy of the Halloween movies: "I'm very proud of my work in those movies, I'm still proud of them I owe obviously everything that I have on a career level or a financial level, or whatever bounty has been created by my movie career , I owe it to Halloween."
3. Clip: 'Halloween: Resurrection'.
4. SOT Jamie Lee Curtis - on her character: "Well I think what's been nice is that 20 years later the reason that we made that movie was primarily to show the reality of what happens to someone who has lived with that kind of secret, that kind of fear and show it in a very real way. I didn't want her to be happy and living her life in some sort of way, I wanted to show that she was a drug addict and alcoholic and someone that was barely able to get through her life. So that gave her somewhere to fight back from and I thought that was an important element to show."
5. Clip: 'Halloween: Resurrection'.
6. SOT Jamie Lee Curtis - on what the Halloween movies mean to her: "When I first made that movie I picked out my own wardrobe, there was a wardrobe woman and we went to JC Penny's and I was playing a little repressed high school girl who wasn't pretty. There was something that was really wonderful about being able to attach that very vulnerable, insecure person that I am and was when I was that age and I loved that this character has this element. I'm not worried about what I look like, I don't care, that isn't what this woman is about. I have found the most freedom in my work when I don't have to worry about what I look like. So 'True Lies' is the most free I have ever been in the movies because that is because I got to be that woman. I think when I get to be somebody else, really inhabit somebody else, I have great freedom as an actor, so I really enjoyed being this woman."
7. Clip: 'Halloween: Resurrection'.
JAMIE DOESN'T LOVE MICHAEL
Halloween is back to haunt a whole new generation.
Twenty four years ago John Carpenter's classic thriller 'Halloween' hit the cinema screens, made a star of Jamie Lee Curtis and started a new cycle of horror movies. Now it's back with Lee Curtis returning as Laurie Strode in 'Halloween: Resurrection'. She is older and wiser but remains fearful of what's in the closet.
The nurses at Grace Anderson Sanitarium tell stories of patient Laurie Strode. She's the sister of the murderous legend Michael Myers - and 3 years ago, she thought she had destroyed her sibling for good. She was wrong. After killing an innocent man, she was locked away and hasn't spoken a word since. The staff believe her to be suicidal - they've caught her on the roof before. But Michael Myers has other plans for Laurie.
Meanwhile six unsuspecting Haddonfield College students in the sleepy town of Haddonfield, Illinois have been selected to spend Halloween night in the childhood home of Michael Myers by a brash Netcaster Freddie Harris, an ambitious entrepreneur, who is ready to make some money with his new "reality" Internet event called Dangertainment. As they explore the house, they are all equipped with tiny digital video cameras that broadcast live on the internet, they believe that they are in for a little fun but things go horribly wrong and the game turns into a struggle to escape the house with their alive.
Halloween arrives and the group prepares to enter the run-down house. There's Sara, a reserved psychology major. Her friend Jen Danzig who is is hoping the escapade will forward her career in broadcasting. Rudy Grimes is a student of culinary arts who's pretty handy with a knife. Bill Woodlake is a womanising law student. Jim Morgan is a music major rebel in leather and Donna Chang is a skeptical and beautiful brain.
Outside in the garage-based control room, Freddie and his assistant Nora are ready for some Halloween fun of their own. But what the group doesn't know is that Michael Myers has come home - and he's ready to clean house! In the follow up to 1998's Halloween: H2O, Michael Myers returns yet again in this thriller. Directed by Rick Rosenthal, the cast brings back the star of the original film, Jamie Lee Curtis, and also features rapper Busta Rhymes, Sean Patrick Thomas (Save the Last Dance), Tyra Banks and Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie, American Pie 2).
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Halloween: Resurrection
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