“Did I like doing that? No!”
At the beginning of 2022, when she said goodbye to the saga Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis looked back on his career with the magazine People. She spoke in particular about her role in An armchair for two (Trading Places), cult film from the 1980s which will be rebroadcast this evening on TF1 Séries Films.
If this comedy has remained famous for its good lines and incredible situations, its filming was not the easiest for the actress, who says she was embarrassed by a nude scene.
At the age of 21, she was cast as a call girl in the John Landis film, alongside Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. For a second, she undresses before the stunned eyes of Louis Winthorpe. In scanty attire, Jamie Lee Curtis, shows herself topless on screen for the first time. A sequence that caused quite a stir at the time.
“I was 21 and the role called for Ophelia to take off her dress… Did I enjoy doing it? No. Did I feel embarrassed doing it? Yes“, comments Jamie Lee Curtis before tempering: “Did I look good? Yeah. Did I know what I was doing? Yeah. Did I like it? No. Was I doing it because it was the work?
Dan Aykroyd talks about his “blackface” in An Armchair for Two
In the process, the sixty-year-old actress assures that if it had to be done again “today, I wouldn’t do it! It’s the last thing in the world I would do right now. I have been married for 37 years. I was not married at the time. I’m a mom too. So absolutely not!”
That being said, ten years later, Jamie Lee Curtis appeared again in an Eve outfit or almost, in a torrid striptease scene from True Lies, a scene that has become cult.
True Lies: Jamie Lee Curtis’ fall during the tango scene was kept in the edit
