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Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed that her road to horror cinema nearly began years earlier, but was deliberately halted by her mother, actor Janet Leigh.

Jamie Lee Curtis appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show and shared how her mom rejected her debut role in the horror film only to save her childhood.

During a recent appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, the Oscar winner recalled a producer wanting her to audition for ...

Curtis grew up as the daughter of actors Leigh ( Psycho, Touch of Evil, 1949's Little Women) and Tony Curtis ( Some Like It ...

Janet Leigh turned down approaches from producers who wanted her daughter to read for the role of Regan MacNeil, the ...

"My mom really wanted me to have, thank God, a childhood, which I understand you didn't get. You didn't get that option," she told host Barrymore, who began acting when she was just seven years old in ...

A producer had called her mother at the time asking for an audition for "Der Exorzist". The role of the possessed Regan was ...

“He called my mom and said, ‘Hey, I’m producing the movie of the book ‘The Exorcist’. Will you let Jamie audition for it?’ ...