Four decades into her acting career, Jamie Lee Curtis is now sharing her \u201csecret sauce\u201d that helps her get more on-screen time in the films she works on. Now that she\u2019s secured her first Oscar nomination, she can reveal that one of her many keys to success in Hollywood is never leaving the set during shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere\u2019s the deal,\u201d Curtis tells Insider at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. \u201cIt\u2019s my secret sauce. Don\u2019t go back to your trailers. Trailers are not your friend. Jonathan Wang, our producer of Everything Everywhere All At Once<\/em>, will tell you I never left the set. I don\u2019t believe in it.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to her recent role as the IRS inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre<\/strong> on EEAAO<\/em>, Curtis recently garnered attention for her performance in Knives Out<\/em> as the matriarch of the Drysdale\/Thrombey family, Linda<\/strong>. Curtis says she ended up in more scenes than originally intended simply because director Rian Johnson always saw her hanging out on set.<\/p>\n \u201cHe once called me his MVP on Knives Out, and when he was asked why, he said, \u2018Because she was always on set,\u2019\u201d Curtis says. \u201c\u2019She never left the set.\u2019 He ended up using me in shots he wasn\u2019t going to use me in because I was on set.\u201d<\/p>\n At the time of the film\u2019s release, Johnson did in fact call Curtis the MVP of the set, telling Entertainment Tonight, \u201cFirst of all, she would be early [every morning]. She\u2019d beat all of us to set. Sometimes she would show up on set when she wasn\u2019t even supposed to be in the scene and just be hanging out, and I would get really confused and kind of nervous. So I would put her in the scene! I was like, \u2018Jamie Lee Curtis is here! Film her!\u2019 She got into scenes she wasn\u2019t even supposed to be in – just because she was there!\u201d<\/p>\n On the horizon, Curtis has four upcoming projects, including the screen adaptation of the video game, Borderlands<\/em>, as well as Spychosis<\/em>, Kay Scarpetta<\/em>, and Disney\u2019s Haunted Mansion<\/em>. If she sticks to her tried but true method, we could see more of her in these upcoming roles than originally planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four decades into her acting career, Jamie Lee Curtis is now sharing her \u201csecret sauce\u201d that helps her get more on-screen time in the films she works on. Now that she\u2019s secured her first Oscar nomination, she can reveal that one of her many keys to success in Hollywood is never leaving the set during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Jamie Lee Curtis Reveals Secret to Getting More Screen Time #JamieLeeCurtis #EEAAO #KnivesOut","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"yoast_head":"\n