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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

Forty years ago, horror fans were introduced to the masked killer1 Michael Myers.

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KELLY: Myers stalked babysitters in a small Illinois town. The film was of course "Halloween." And I'm going to let my co-host Audie Cornish take it from here.

AUDIE CORNISH, BYLINE2: Halloween was the film debut3 of Jamie Lee Curtis. She played the bookish babysitter Laurie Strode, one of those final-girl type characters who narrowly escapes a slaughter4. Curtis appeared in three more sequels and even died in one. So she thought she'd left that character behind.

JAMIE LEE CURTIS: I had no intention of being in another "Halloween" movie.

CORNISH: Yet that's exactly what she's done, reprising her role as Strode in the new "Halloween." She told me that what convinced her to return was the approach taken by director David Gordon Green and screenwriter Danny McBride. They chose to ignore the other seven sequels and focus on what's happened to Laurie Strode since 1978.

CURTIS: In this movie, 40 years later, we find really what happens when someone suffers a trauma5 when they're 17 years old and doesn't get any help. You know, Laurie Strode, she left school on the 31st of October a dreamer, an intellectual, someone who would have gone on to Brown and changed the world. And instead, on November 1, she went back to school a freak. And that's what happens with trauma. It brands you. People point and go, oh, my gosh, there's Laurie Strode. She's the one who survived. And it took away her innocence6.

CORNISH: I think one of the characters in the movie, a doctor character, says something along the lines of there are many ways tragedy and violence can change a victim. And it can make people maybe sad and insular7. But in this case, it makes her kind of a doomsday prepper, right? I mean, she is now not living in fear but lying in wait.

CURTIS: Yeah, but that's all in response to only one idea that she has perseverated about for her entire life, which is that he will come back for her. And she has lost everything. She ended up in a couple relationships that were failed. She ended up having a child. The state came and took the child from her 'cause she was an unfit mother, unfit because her only goal every day was to prepare her daughter for the fact that Michael Myers was coming back.

CORNISH: I think I have in my notes, why won't her dumb family believe her? (Laughter) Like, you know, and that's - it does this excellent thing that happens in horror movies where you can be in the audience thinking, why aren't you listening? But her family is trying to tell her in not a subtle way to get over it.

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ANDI MATICHAK: (As Allyson) All this hiding, all this preparation, it was for nothing. It took priority over your family. It cost you your family.

CURTIS: (As Laurie Strode) If the way I raised your mother means that she hates me but that she's prepared for the horrors of this world, then I can live with that.

MATICHAK: (As Allyson) Say goodbye to Michael, and get over it.

CURTIS: Everybody's trying to tell her to get over it. I think that's been the sort of refrain in her ears since she was 17 years old. And in a weird8 way, you know, that is all of our ways of trying to distance ourself from that person's trauma. Nobody wants to really get into it. And it's much easier to give somebody a painkiller9 and say get over it.

CORNISH: You talk about Laurie like she's a real person.

CURTIS: She is a real person.

CORNISH: How long has she - have you felt close to this character? 'Cause we should say that this was kind of your coming-out party for you personally. Can you talk a little bit about that idea?

CURTIS: It was a role - I had been on a TV series prior where I was one of six women with maybe two lines a week. And here was a script that was completely a character, a full character with a really emotional and dramatic arc. And so for me, honestly, her name is on every page of the script, and I was thrilled. I'm a bit of a smart aleck. I have a trash-talk mouth. I'm not an intellectual. I'm a big emotional. I hug a lot. And here was a role of a quiet, intellectual, repressed, virginal dreamer who walked down the street and sang to herself, (singing) I wish I had you all alone.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "HALLOWEEN")

CURTIS: (As Laurie Strode, singing) Just the two of us.

You know, there was a romance to her. And so for me, she was the best role really I've ever been able to play.

CORNISH: One thing that's interesting is I'm thinking of how John Carpenter, who along with the co-writer, Deborah Hill, created the franchise10 - you're listed along with him as an executive producer. And that must be incredible to think, like, you started out a 19-year-old (laughter) doing this movie, and now you're executive producer of it.

CURTIS: I never thought I'd have any of this, Audie.

CORNISH: Really, though? I mean, I think listening...

CURTIS: Not a...

CORNISH: ...To this people are like, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh - like, you don't think acting's somewhere on the horizon (laughter)?

CURTIS: I never thought about it for a second. I wasn't very pretty. I was cute. I had gray teeth from my mother taking tetracycline when I was, you know, in utero. I wasn't particularly talented. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do musical theater. I just sort of showed up. My point is here I sit talking about a movie that I've been involved with for 40 years about something. That it's about something and that all of my life experiences have added up to this moment is not something I had any idea would happen.

CORNISH: It's kind of incredible. Sorry, I don't have better thoughts than that (laughter). I'm happy for you, Jamie Lee Curtis.

CURTIS: Yeah, far out. I - and by the way, I'm happy. Don't get me wrong. I did an interview for New York Magazine with David Edelstein. And in a communication with me when we were sort of signing off an email exchange where he was doing some background information, he said, enjoy your victory lap.

CORNISH: Oh.

CURTIS: And I started - of course just started bawling11 my eyes out because that's how it feels. I've been going around the world sort of high-fiving people with the astonishment12 of this moment. I've worked hard, but I'm - I don't expect it. And that's what a gift is, when you don't expect something and then it's given to you. And you open it and go, wow, thank you. That's incredible. And that's what I feel David Gordon Green and Danny McBride gave me when they allowed me to go where we had to go to explain and honor the courage and tenacity13 of Laurie Strode, who represents all women who've been aggressed, all women who've had to fight back, all women who've survived. And that's a privilege and not something I take lightly.

CORNISH: Well, it has been an incredible journey. It was a real honor to speak to you.

CURTIS: Well, thank you, Audie. It's been a great privilege. And happy Halloween, everyone.

CORNISH: Jamie Lee Curtis stars again in the film "Halloween."

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1 killer rpLziK     
n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者
参考例句:
  • Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
  • The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
2 byline sSXyQ     
n.署名;v.署名
参考例句:
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
3 debut IxGxy     
n.首次演出,初次露面
参考例句:
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
4 slaughter 8Tpz1     
n.屠杀,屠宰;vt.屠杀,宰杀
参考例句:
  • I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
  • Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。
5 trauma TJIzJ     
n.外伤,精神创伤
参考例句:
  • Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
  • The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
6 innocence ZbizC     
n.无罪;天真;无害
参考例句:
  • There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
  • The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。
7 insular mk0yd     
adj.岛屿的,心胸狭窄的
参考例句:
  • A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
  • Having lived in one place all his life,his views are insular.他一辈子住在一个地方,所以思想狭隘。
8 weird bghw8     
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
参考例句:
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
9 painkiller eKMx4     
n.止痛药
参考例句:
  • I shall persuade him to take the painkiller.我将说服他把药吃下去。
  • The painkiller only provides him a short respite from his pain.止痛药仅仅让他在疼痛中有短暂的疏解。
10 franchise BQnzu     
n.特许,特权,专营权,特许权
参考例句:
  • Catering in the schools is run on a franchise basis.学校餐饮服务以特许权经营。
  • The United States granted the franchise to women in 1920.美国于1920年给妇女以参政权。
11 bawling e2721b3f95f01146f848648232396282     
v.大叫,大喊( bawl的现在分词 );放声大哭;大声叫出;叫卖(货物)
参考例句:
  • We heard the dulcet tones of the sergeant, bawling at us to get on parade. 我们听到中士用“悦耳”的声音向我们大喊,让我们跟上队伍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • "Why are you bawling at me? “你向我们吼啥子? 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
12 astonishment VvjzR     
n.惊奇,惊异
参考例句:
  • They heard him give a loud shout of astonishment.他们听见他惊奇地大叫一声。
  • I was filled with astonishment at her strange action.我对她的奇怪举动不胜惊异。
13 tenacity dq9y2     
n.坚韧
参考例句:
  • Tenacity is the bridge to success.坚韧是通向成功的桥。
  • The athletes displayed great tenacity throughout the contest.运动员在比赛中表现出坚韧的斗志。

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