{"id":1862460,"date":"2023-02-27T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T20:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1862460"},"modified":"2023-02-27T15:41:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T20:41:16","slug":"i-totally-get-it-jamie-lee-curtis-admits-shes-a-nepo-baby-during-awards-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-totally-get-it-jamie-lee-curtis-admits-shes-a-nepo-baby-during-awards-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Totally Get It\u2019: Jamie Lee Curtis Admits She\u2019s A \u2018Nepo Baby\u2019 During Awards Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-totally-get-it-jamie-lee-curtis-admits-shes-a-nepo-baby-during-awards-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1862460&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Jamie Lee Curtis said Sunday that she was a &#8220;strange person.&#8221; &#8220;nepo baby&#8221; When she was presented with the award for outstanding performance by a female actress in a supporting role at 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year old is the daughter of Janet Leigh and actor Tony Curtis. During her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/KLO38SHuTNQ\">acceptance speech<\/a> for her role in &#8220;Everything Everywhere All At Once,&#8221; Curtis said despite being born to famed stars, she is an &#8220;actor,&#8221; and she &#8220;loves&#8221; it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My parents were actors,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;And I married an actor. I love actors. I love acting. I love the job we get to do. I love being part of a crew. I love being part of a cast. \u2026 It&#8217;s such a beautiful job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I know you look at me and think, well, nepo baby, that&#8217;s why she&#8217;s there,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And I totally get it. But the truth of the matter is I&#8217;m 64 years old and this is just amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We love you too, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamieleecurtis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jamieleecurtis<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N8MkACPSpr\">pic.twitter.com\/N8MkACPSpr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SAG Awards\u00ae (@SAGawards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAGawards\/status\/1630048924877881345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Freaky Friday&#8221; star also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/us\/2023\/02\/27\/sag-awards-nepo-baby-jamie-lee-curtis-contd-orig-zt.cnn\">talked<\/a> about getting her\u00a0&#8220;SAG card&#8221; when she was 19 years old after she &#8220;signed a seven-year contract to Universal Studios and starred in an ABC TV series called the \u2018Operation Petticoat,&#8217; which was based on the movie that my father, Tony Curtis \u2014 nepo baby! \u2014 starred in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/sag-awards-2023-i-am-an-actor-jamie-lee-curtis-jokes-about-being-nepo-baby\/\">Curtis<\/a> said when she was fired from the show a year later, she thought her &#8220;life was over. But the good news is that if I hadn&#8217;t been fired from \u2018Operation Petticoat,&#8217; I would have never had the opportunity to audition for a little tiny, no-budget horror movie called \u2018Halloween.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/this-is-a-family-business-hollywood-legend-blows-off-criticisms-about-nepo-babies\">nepo baby<\/a>&#8221; comment stems from a 2022 article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/press\/2022\/12\/extremely-overanalyzing-hollywoods-nepo-baby-boom.html\">New York Magazine<\/a> that noted a connection between those in the entertainment industry and the children of celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis was one of serval who hit back at the term, despite not being named.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby,&#8221; Curtis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cmgx-KRLwlJ\/\">shared<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never understood, nor will I, what qualities got me hired that day, but since my first two lines on \u2018Quincy&#8217; as a contract player at Universal Studios to this last spectacular creative year some 44 years later, there&#8217;s not a day in my professional life that goes by without my being reminded that I am the daughter of movie stars. The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nepo-babies-jamie-lee-curtis-kate-hudson-fight-back-i-dont-care-where-you-come-from\">Nepo Babies&#8217; Jamie Lee Curtis &#038; Kate Hudson Fight Back: \u2018I Don&#8217;t Care Where You Come\u00a0From<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Lee Curtis admitted on Sunday that she\u2019s a \u201cnepo baby\u201d when she took home the honor of outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The 64-year-old is the daughter of the late actor Tony Curtis and actress Janet Leigh. 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