OG ‘Halloween’ Stars: Where Are They Now?

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It’s been over 40 years Halloween originally in theaters, but the story lives on in the sequels, fans of cast and horror movies.

After several TV roles, Jamie Lee Curtis made her big screen debut in 1978 Halloween as Laurie Strode, a high school babysitter harassed by Michael Myers after escaping from Warren County’s Smith’s Grove Sanitarium 15 years after his sister’s murder.

“[I loathe to be] anxious. Disgusting with a capital “L.” And yet it’s how I made my whole career, which was actually born out of the 1978 Halloween movie,” Curtis shared. The Wall Street Journal in October 2021 while promoting the 12th Halloween movie. “And it’s ironic that I’m ‘that’ girl because the truth is I’m terrified.”

She continued: “Even when I was a toddler, I was always looking over my shoulder. I always look like I’m in trouble or someone is mad at me or something is coming my way.”

During an interview with Fashion that same month, Curtis commented that “Halloween was never meant to be a franchise until it became one.”

The Crazy Friday actress explained, “Here I am, 43 years later, still playing Laurie Strode. For that movie to get that reaction 40 years after the original was an indescribable experience. What I love about it is that we just like made the first movie The original was made so quickly for so little money by a small group of people, and [director of 2018’s Halloween] David [Gorden Green] similarly lightened the load, so that we could make it fast and furious. No one was paid in advance, not even the undersigned. It’s not because we knew we’d be making a lot of money from the backend – those numbers were certainly unexpected. And traditionally, horror movies don’t get good reviews; so given my history with this character, it felt pretty awesome.

Several Halloween stars have popped up in the franchise since the original movie, but Kyle Richards made headlines when she was brought in to reprise her role as Lindsey in 2021 Halloween kills.

“I’m just so happy to be back on the big screen, doing what I love most, my first love, which is acting. I’m just thankful,” the Bravo star shared exclusively Us weekly in October 2021. “I had no idea it was going to be such a big deal and that fans would still be passionate about it after all these years. Like when I signed up for the Housewives, I thought I was two months into a job and I didn’t know if it was going to be a flop or a hit. And here we are [the] Number 1 show on Bravo all these years later. So you know, you never know.”

While it’s unclear if Richards will be called up for more Halloween episodes, plans are already underway Halloween ends.

“In the ’78 movie, you see that moment with her [Lindsey] and Tommy upstairs in the hallway after their confrontation with Michel Myers, and Laurie begs them to get out of the house and go get help, and she’s their protector,” director and co-writer Green told Weekly entertainment in October 2021. “So it was cool to be able to take that character full circle to a sequence we have on the playground where she has a similar, protective moment with kids on a playground. It was nice to see her role reversal, her maturity as a character. I’m not sure we’ve seen the last of Kyle Richards in our franchise.”

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