‘It was mind-blowing’: Jamie Lee Curtis cherished getting to sit in the front row at the Oscars

Bang Showbiz | Los Angeles

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Jamie Lee Curtis “never thought” that she would get to sit in the front row at the Oscars.

The 66-year-old star took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2023 for her part in the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once and recalled how the most exciting part of the ceremony was when she and her co-stars found out they would be sitting in prime position for the show.

Jamie told AARP The Magazine: “As soon as Ke (Huy Quan) and Steph Hsu and Michelle Yeoh came and sat in the same row, I literally walked up to each one of them and I went, ‘Ke, where are we?’ And he said, ‘We’re at the Oscars.’ ‘And where are you sitting?’ And he said, ‘In the front row.’

“(They) never, ever, ever thought that they would be sitting in the front row at the Academy Awards as nominees. That moment for me was the whole thing. It was mind-blowing. And still is.”

Jamie is the daughter of actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis and felt that her Oscars triumph was even more special as she had first-hand experience of the negative side of the industry.

The Halloween actress said: “I was raised in show business, a business that is ageist, misogynist and pigeonholing.

“I’ve watched the sad reality when show business no longer wants you. I watched it with my parents, who went from the height of their intense fame to nobody wanting them anymore.”