This is an updated version of a story first published on May 11, 2025. The original video can be viewed here .

In Hollywood, it's not unusual for actors to try and fit the industry standard of beauty and marketability, plotting every outfit and career move with the prowess of a chessmaster. But Jamie Lee Curtis is not one of them. Candid and spontaneous, she fearlessly calls it as she sees it, even when it comes to herself. We met Jamie Lee Curtis in Los Angeles, and as we said when we first aired this story in May, at 66 years old, she is savoring a new wave of award-winning performances. We asked her about her decades-long career. She told us it was anything but planned.

Jamie Lee Curtis: My life hinged on a couple seconds I never saw coming. I never thought I'd be an actor in my li

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