Jamie Lee Curtis opens up about harsh realities of aging as an actor

Jamie Lee Curtis considers herself lucky because she feels her best at 66 because she knows that’s not true for everyone.

The Freaky Friday star attended a special screening of Freakier Friday on Monday night, July 28, in New York, where she had a discussion on navigating Hollywood as you grow older.

“I am so much more beautiful now than I have ever been in my entire life,” she told Page Six, adding, “That’s because I am living a truth that I feel very comfortable in.”

Curtis is still in the prime of her career, as she recently did hits upon hits, like Knives Out, Everything Everywhere All At Once, which she won an Academy Award for, and the upcoming Murder She Wrote reboot.

However, she admitted, “There is a ticking clock for everybody. There’s a cliff for everybody. Every great actor, except Meryl Streep. No cliff for Meryl Streep. Other than that, everybody’s going to have a cliff.”

The True Lies actress went on to share that working as she gets older is even more important to her because she witnessed her actor parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, struggle to find work as they got older.

“I watched my parents lose the thing they loved,” Curtis said. “The thing they loved that gave them fame, attention, art, creativity, it was taken away because they aged out.”

This is not the first time Curtis has discussed ageing out in your career as an actor, as this is something she really cares about, but she has learned to embrace the harsh reality over time.