Her role in True Lies was certainly, but I had no idea that she was awarded for that.
Here is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9qcg0Mq9v9I
Huh, very interesting. I never knew this. It's definitely a very funny role for her. Much easier to win a GG back then for a role like this. Plus, since they separate comedy and drama categories, that makes it easy, too. But I couldn't see a role like this winning now.
shareYeah. It's probably the only major award she'll ever recieve. She also won a saturn award for it which was tied to Sandra Bullock in Speed.
"Time to die! Like a man!" Venom Spider-Man Web of Shadows
I'm in the minority here, but this is really one of my favorite James Cameron movies. So funny and entertaining. A rare modern slapstick comedy adventure film. I just saw this movie again the other day and wondered What the hell happened to Jamie Lee Curtis after this?! It just seems like she capped out at this film, then really nothing major after this. She was so big in the 80s and I feel like her career culminated with this movie.
shareYou're forgetting Freaky Friday.
"Time to die! Like a man!" Venom Spider-Man Web of Shadows
Kind of! I just mean that it seems like she was doing more stuff in the 80s than in the 90s. Freaky Friday was years after True Lies, right?
shareYeah. Maybe we should check her filmography.
"Time to die! Like a man!" Venom Spider-Man Web of Shadows
Just checked. She was working fairly steady in the 90s, but not a lot. Looks like after True Lies, she was doing 1 to 2 projects per year, including TV, so nothing big until Halloween H20 in '98. Freaky Friday was 2003. Looks like True Lies was the beginning of her Mom phase in films!
shareShe had a fair amount of Oscar buzz for this. She was expected to be nominated. She was also nominated for the SAG award.
sharethe strip scene was hot as hell, not that they usually give out golden globes for stripper scenes, but still
shareI think Jamie is a truly underrated actress. She was great in this movie and she was also excellent in Freaky Friday.
I know it's critically panned but I love her in Christmas with the Kranks.
She should've won an oscar for it. She was miles ahead of the winner that year
shareJust watchin it now, and I was gonna post something about wether it holds up or not almost 20 years later, but I was just commenting to my wife what a talent Jamie Lee Curtis is and stumbled across this thread, so . . .
What is really fantastic about her work in True Lies is that she is, at one point, playing a role within a role. She is playing a button up house wife who then has to play a call girl.
To be clear - you do not watch her play a housewife, and then watch her play a hooker - you watch her play a housewife pretending to be a hooker. This accomplishment is so understated as to go unnoticed, especially since it is a minor sub-plot in an action flick.
But I would put an exclamation point on it by pointing out that in at least two movies previous to this - A Fish Called Wanda and Trading Places - Jamie Lee played a slut and a hooker respectively. In fact, she had a bit of a reputation due to the characters she played - so much so that John Lovitz once grabbed her breast at an awards show (with her father Tony in the audience) and she responded by grabbing at his crotch. Lovitz said "Missed.".
The point is that she knew how to play a slut, and could very easily have slipped into a "slut" character - instead she does something incredibly difficult and maintains character as a house wife uncomfortably playing a hooker.
I don't know if I am making this as clear as I'd like, its difficult in type to be as concise as I'd like to be.
People went to this movie for Arnie and the action, but here, 20 years later, I realize that Curtis displays the best acting of the entire cast, and I appreciate her work in here at long last.
I am glad to here her efforts were recognized and rewarded. Thank goodness there are people in the world with more foresight and brains than me.
Just watched it again this morning. It stands the test of time.
I wish Jamie Lee Curtis would come back on NCIS as Gibb's psychiatrist love interest. I think she's one of the most underrated actresses.
She should have won the "best golden globes" award for her underwear dance....
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
I agree that she's pretty undesestimated just because she doesn't take dramatic roles but if anything that makes her a tremendously daring actress. this role particularly had amazing stunts and was a very challenging role in terms of transformation (from housewive to whore and boy did she act the hell out of both) and the helicopter stunt. this is the endless discussion that action, horror and comedy actresses are always invariably underrated and they all have to go on to do drama to earn any sort of recognition. this is clearly the case here. she deserved that golden globe and she deserved the box office, let money speak for itself - who needs awards.
shareProbably should have gotten an Oscar nod.
shareShe was great in this movie.
She was fantastic, absolutely awesome in this movie.
Yup, her "golden globes" were certainly worthy. I mean, she is marvelous in the movie.
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