Jamie Lee Curtis celebrated her final day of filming on the upcoming sequel “Halloween Ends” while saying goodbye to the franchise…
It’s impossible to know for certain but it’s possible that Jamie Lee Curtis has played Laurie Strode for the final time.
On Tuesday, Curtis announced that she has wrapped production on “Halloween Ends” — the third and final film in the trilogy from director David Gordon Green — while saying goodbye to the franchise after first returning to the role for 2018’s “Halloween.”
“A bittersweet END for me on the Halloween movies,” Curtis wrote on Instagram. “I’ve made great friends and have collaborated with wonderful artists on these three movies and today my part in the film has been completed and with it the END for me of this trilogy.
“It’s all because of the fans who have always supported me and more importantly, Laurie.”
Curtis first portrayed the iconic final girl in John Carpenter’s “Halloween” in 1978 before returning to the role for “Halloween II” in 1981. After spending several years playing various roles in horror films, Curtis eventually moved onto different roles including films such as “Trading Places,” “A Fish Called Wanda” and “True Lies,” which earned her a Golden Globe award in 1995.
Of course, Curtis never strayed terribly far away from the “Halloween” franchise after first returning to the role for “Halloween: H20” in 1998, which served as the 20 year anniversary from the original film. She then made a cameo appearance in the sequel “Halloween Resurrection,” which was arguably one of the worst films in the entire franchise history.
It wasn’t until Green and his writing partner Danny McBride — along with Carpenter’s blessing — pitched Curtis on the idea of returning to the role of Laurie Strode for 2018’s “Halloween,” which served as a direct sequel to the original film from 1978 and essentially erased the history from other films in the series.
“Halloween” ended up being a critical and commercial hit, which then led to two more films being commissioned with 2021’s “Halloween Kills” and then “Halloween Ends,” which is due out on October 14.
If this really is Curtis’ last appearance as Laurie Strode, she will certainly go down as one of the most iconic horror actresses of all time while often being celebrated as one of the original “final girls.”
