00:00And I was looking in the mirror, and my face hurt,
00:03and I couldn't figure it out.
00:04Did I get like, did I grind my teeth, like something?
00:07And then I realized, oh no, it's because I was smiling.
00:12Because Lori was smiling,
00:13which is not something we've ever seen.
00:15It all ends now.
00:18Ah!
00:30Obviously, just because of the fact
00:32this is Halloween ends, I mean,
00:34what was the last day on set like?
00:35I have to imagine it was an emotional experience.
00:37Oh my God.
00:39Yeah.
00:40Yeah, uh, oh man.
00:44It was just, I mean, I gotta just sit back and watch.
00:46I mean, watching Jamie get wrapped out was,
00:48that was one of the most special moments
00:50I've ever witnessed.
00:53Yeah, watching Jamie get wrapped out was insane,
00:55and then I literally fell in love with everybody.
00:59David, all the way down, the entire crew, everyone.
01:02And I didn't, you know, you're not always that lucky, so.
01:06Yeah, it was a sad day, but really happy.
01:10It was very bittersweet.
01:11The entire process we were filming,
01:13you know, you were so excited to get to set
01:15and get working, because the scenes were so much fun,
01:17and we were having such a blast making it,
01:19but then every day that passed,
01:20you're one day closer to it being done.
01:23And so it was very bittersweet,
01:24and, you know, that last, Jamie, when she wrapped,
01:27it was, I wasn't working that day.
01:30I came to set, you were working that day.
01:32And it was just, it was an incredibly emotional experience.
01:36And then when they called picture wrap on Halloween,
01:37I mean, it was, it was pretty wild.
01:40It was many years for, I mean, we had the same crew
01:43for pretty much the three films, and it was very emotional.
01:47It feels surreal to be there.
01:49Yeah.
01:49It feels really surreal to be in the room for that.
01:52You know, it's a beautiful thing.
01:53Like, the last shot of Jamie, we have this moment,
01:56we call everybody over,
01:58and everybody kind of looks each other in the eye,
02:00and we know this long journey that we've had,
02:01because we have the exact same crew on all three films.
02:03Everyone from our production sound mixer,
02:06and production designer, and costume designer,
02:08and cinematographer and AD, many of the PAs.
02:12You know, it's just the same people that you're around
02:14for three movies, and it's not always easy days,
02:19but it's really, it's a group of people
02:20that you really trust.
02:21And so when you're coming to that conclusion
02:23and know we're moving on,
02:25we're putting to rest our story.
02:28It really was an emotional thing to carry it
02:30from that moment of saying goodbye to Jamie,
02:33to the sun's coming up and we're in the hotel lobby
02:35just having a drink and looking at each other
02:37with that great appreciation and exhaustion.
02:39Well, needless to say, tears were shed.
02:45But I would say that just go to the airport
02:47and watch people.
02:48I mean, what was that Richard Curtis movie?
02:50Right, Love Actually?
02:51You know, it's just the nature of saying goodbye to people
02:56or saying hello to people is powerful.
03:00The crew that I work with,
03:02I had made three movies with in five years,
03:05that group of people became very close to me.
03:09I'm ultimately saying goodbye to fans.
03:11I don't know if you're a fan of these movies.
03:13Okay, well then I'm saying goodbye to you.
03:15And I'm saying thank you to you
03:17and I'm saying thank you to them.
03:19I am the center point of Halloween
03:22and I take that role very seriously.
03:24I don't joke about it.
03:26I feel a great responsibility and integrity
03:30to tell that story and to represent
03:34all that Laurie Strode is to everyone
03:38with strength and courage.
03:40And yet I'm a human being and an artist
03:44and I'm saying goodbye.
03:45And it's been a lot, it's been a lot.
03:50Every day has been a WeepFest, every day,
03:53even during the press tour.
03:54I mean, by the time I end my day,
03:57I've been reconnected with how important Laurie Strode
04:00and then me.
04:02I am to people because I am Laurie Strode.
04:05At this point, you know, Laurie was a character in 1978.
04:10I didn't dress like her, I didn't look like her,
04:14I didn't sound like her, I didn't talk like her.
04:17And by now, Jamie and Laurie are the same
04:20because all of those qualities are the qualities
04:23that I also try to bring into the universe.
04:27And so there is this impossible separation
04:32and so that rip between us is very painful.
04:39Come on, let's go.
04:42Just knowing the history of genre franchises,
04:45what odds would you put on the idea of this being
04:48the just last Halloween movie that is ever, ever made?
04:51Well, if I have it my way,
04:53this movie will be phenomenally successful
04:56and then there's no way it will not,
04:57you know what I'm saying?
04:59I think what we've come to do, we've told our story,
05:03Jamie and I are really proud of what we've done
05:07with the mythology and I think it'll take a little breather
05:11and then the next generation or the next storyteller
05:13is gonna come in and infuse a creative way to look at it,
05:17reinvent it, detour from it, you know, stage musical,
05:21you name it, something's gonna happen
05:23because Michael's too cool,
05:25they're not gonna let him rest too long.
05:27I mean, it's hard to say.
05:29They are saying it's the end,
05:31but then again, it's Hollywood,
05:33so I think to myself, well, you never know.
05:35I mean, I've seen crazier things done.
05:38So would you be excited?
05:39If you were given the opportunity,
05:40would you bring Lindsay back?
05:41I mean, if I was given the opportunity
05:43and it wasn't the end, yes, I would love to see Lindsay.
05:46I don't want, I want Lindsay to keep going.
05:49One thing that's been really great
05:51about this trilogy of films is that I feel like each one
05:53has multiple just really cool, small little things
05:56like Jamie Lee Curtis voicing the baby
05:59in the first one of the Bob Odenkirk photo.
06:01Oh, whoa, okay, you caught that?
06:03Yeah, I mean, and I'm curious,
06:04just is there a one in Hollywood that's so bad?
06:07Oh my gosh, those are my favorite things.
06:10I guarantee you there's like 12 of those things.
06:13Well, I did notice Nick Castle as his cameo.
06:16Nick Castle's cameo, that's a good one.
06:18Yeah.
06:20Yeah, we just corrected, we found,
06:21we spelled Lindsay's character name wrong
06:24in the opening titles.
06:25Whoops.
06:26Oh.
06:28You know, there's these things that,
06:30we'll correct it for a home video, but it's screwed.
06:33Well, I guess I'll ask,
06:34how did the Nick Castle cameo come together?
06:35How did you decide that he was gonna be that?
06:37Nick Castle came, so I'm so passionate
06:41about the extraordinary work that Jim Courtney
06:45has done with our shape that I wanted to make sure
06:48that our final presentation of his performance
06:52in this role was 100% him.
06:55And I've become very close to Nick and I love him.
06:57He actually, he reads first drafts of my scripts now.
06:59He's like, he's a mentor of mine
07:01and I love to get his notes.
07:03I love to keep him creatively involved
07:05and he's just a wonderful, optimistic personality
07:09that if you come to know him, you come to love him.
07:11And so, then I'd ask him, I said, well, what,
07:13so we've got, Michael Myers is taken care of.
07:16I want Jim to be 100% Michael in this movie.
07:19What can we do with you?
07:21Because I can't not have you in the movie.
07:23So he's like, well, I've never acted before.
07:25I'm not an actor.
07:26And I said, well, we'll see about that.
07:27So we gave him a fun cameo
07:29and like this slim, good body kind of outfit.
07:32And yeah, it was great to get him in front of the camera
07:34without a mask, being Nick.
07:36And you kind of see, you can see that infectious smile
07:38that he has.
07:39Totally.
07:40And I think fans are gonna absolutely love that one.
07:41Oh, and it was his idea for the line,
07:42which is a callback to the original.
07:43Oh nice, that's awesome.
07:44If you see anything you like.
07:45Was there anything that, from the script,
07:47as David Gordon Green and the writers were working on it,
07:49was there anything that you specifically wanted
07:51to make sure that was in this story
07:53or on the opposite side?
07:55Anything that you just did not want to see happen?
07:56Yeah, I'm not that person.
07:58I'm not a writer here.
08:00I'm an interpreter.
08:02I know Laurie well.
08:04I felt that what David and company did in the 2018 movie
08:10was a perfect way to open the door to 40 years of trauma
08:15and what that actually looks like.
08:17What does it really look like if you've had no support,
08:21no mental health care and attention?
08:24And I loved that the four year time gap
08:28has given Laurie a chance at a little bit of healing,
08:32a little bit of help.
08:35You know and I know no one heals from the loss of a child,
08:39but you can live with it rather than having it be
08:44the overwhelming trauma of your life where you cannot exist.
08:49And I was very happy that that's also how they,
08:53I mean I'll tell you that we were shooting the first day
08:57and it was the scene in the supermarket
08:58and I remember I got back to my dressing room
09:01after they broke for lunch
09:04and I went back to my dressing room
09:06and I was looking in the mirror and my face hurt
09:09and I couldn't figure it out.
09:10Looking in the mirror I was like,
09:12did I grind my teeth like something?
09:16And then I realized, oh no,
09:18it's because I was smiling,
09:20because Laurie was smiling
09:22which is not something we've ever seen.
09:24And that made me realize that a healing
09:29had taken place for her,
09:31that she could allow herself to smile.
09:33That's awesome, I love how organic it is too.
09:35That's wonderful, that's fantastic.
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