Jamie Lee Curtis Addresses Her Future With the ‘Halloween’ Movies: “I’ll Say Goodbye When I’m Dead”

Halloween Kills just came out, but Jamie Lee Curtis is already gearing up to reprise her role as Laurie Strode in its upcoming sequel, Halloween Ends. The actress has appeared in seven films in the iconic slasher franchise since it began in 1978 (if you count her telephone operator cameo in Halloween II: Season of the Witch, of course). Halloween Ends will mark the end of David Gordon Green‘s sequel trilogy, so will it also mark Lee Curtis’ last appearance as Laurie? Not necessarily.

“If I’ve learned one thing in 43 years, it’s you just never say goodbye,” the actress said in a new interview with USA Today. “I’ll say goodbye when I’m dead.”

Ignoring previous films in the franchise, the 2018 Halloween film was a direct sequel that caught up with Laurie 40 years after she first faced off against Michael Myers. In the new movies, she’s forced to confront him once again, this time alongside her daughter (Judy Greer) and granddaughter (Andi Matichak). In Lee Curtis’ opinion, Gordon Green’s Halloween installments stand out for their prescience — the 2018 film tackled female trauma amid the Me Too movement, while Halloween Kills also aims to speak to the current moment.

“[The writers] were prescient about the mob violence, the uprisings, the civil unrest, the people taking matters into their own hands, the ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore’ idea, and the ‘system is broken’ conversation,” the actress recently told The Hollywood Reporter. “We made this movie a long time ago, and there’s even a hint of police misconduct in the re-creations of the 1978 sequences. And yet, here we are.”

Halloween Kills is now playing in theaters and streaming on Peacock Premium.

Where to watch Halloween Kills

Where to watch Halloween Kills