Oscars 2022: Jamie Lee Curtis, 63, looks slender in mesh black dress on the red carpet… after posing with her tummy out for THAT viral photo
Jamie Lee Curtis looked slender in a curve-hugging black mesh dress when she hit the red carpet at the Academy Awards on Sunday afternoon at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
This is a stark contrast to the Instagram photos that she shared in early March where she showed off a large belly, insisting it was really hers. The photo went viral as fans asked if the post could be a stunt.
The beauty must have some tricks – or Spanx – up her sleeve as her body morphs because she looked very slender at the Oscars.
Skinny: Jamie Lee Curtis looked slender in a curve-hugging black mesh dress when she hit the red carpet at the Academy Awards on Sunday afternoon at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood
Smart move: The Knives Out actress also had a blue ribbon on her finger that was worn to support the refugees who have fled war torn Ukraine
The Halloween actress looked youthful in a curve-hugging black dress with her light gray hair worn short and brushed back.
The 63-year-old star appeared to be proud to be on the carpet as she posed alone while wearing cross earrings.
She is the daughter of some of the biggest Hollywood greats, Janet Leigh of Psycho fame and Tony Curtis who lit up Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe.
A stunner: The 63-year-old star appeared to be proud to be on the carpet as she posed alone while wearing cross earrings
So many fans: There were dozens of photographers taking her photo for the big event on Sunday
The Knives Out actress also had a blue ribbon on her finger that was worn to support the refugees who have fled war torn Ukraine.
In early March Jamie said she defiantly refused to use body prosthetics to play a downtrodden character in her upcoming film Everything All At Once.
Shot just before the coronavirus lockdowns swept the country, the film features Jamie Lee as a stern-looking IRS auditor in a tight-fitting and unflattering polo neck that shows off the star’s tummy.
The actress, who declined to use a prosthetic for the character’s midriff, uploaded an Instagram photo of herself in character with a candid caption about letting her belly out for the role after ‘sucking in my stomach since I was 11.’
Candid: Curtis unveiled a first look this week of her character in the film Everything All At Once, which allowed her to let her belly out after ‘sucking my stomach in since I was 11’
Jamie Lee is pictured in character sitting in her cubicle wearing a distinctly unimpressed expression and holding a half-eaten cookie.
‘WELL…. here we GO!’ she crowed in her Instagram caption. ‘Two years ago we made this movie right up until the day the world shut down. We just finished in time. It’s a Magical Mystery Tour of a movie and I’m so excited to see it tomorrow at its premiere opening the @sxsw festival. @everythingeverywheremovie @a24.’
Jamie Lee, whose parents were Some Like It Hot heartthrob Tony Curtis and Psycho star Janet Leigh, wrote: ‘I’m proud to introduce you to Deirdre Beaubeirdra.’
She described her character as an ‘IRS auditor’ as well as the ‘nemesis and bae’ of Michelle Yeoh’s leading character Evelyn Wang.
Pin-up: Jamie Lee – who claims to have been sucking in her tummy since she was 11 – was known in the 80s for her athletic figure (Pictured above in the 1985 film Perfect)
‘In the world, there is an industry – a billion-dollar, trillion-dollar industry – about hiding things,’ she added. ‘Concealers. Body-shapers. Fillers. Procedures. Clothing. Hair accessories. Hair products. Everything to conceal the reality of who we are. And my instruction to everybody was: I want there to be no concealing of anything.’
Jamie Lee revealed: ‘I’ve been sucking my stomach in since I was 11, when you start being conscious of boys and bodies, and the jeans are super tight. I very specifically decided to relinquish and release every muscle I had that I used to clench to hide the reality. That was my goal.’
The Halloween star dished: ‘I have never felt more free creatively and physically I can’t wait for everybody to see the BRILLIANCE of Ms.Yeoh and @kehuyquan @stephaniehsuofficial @martialclubofficial @andyle_official @dunkwun.’
One of the directors of the film, Daniel Kwan, recently told Entertainment Weekly that Jamie Lee was not wearing a prosthetic stomach for the role.
Chic to the hilt: Jamie Lee is pictured in a glamorous aspect attending the opening gala for the Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles last year
‘Everyone assumes that her belly in the movie is a prosthetic, but it’s actually her real belly. She was grateful that she was allowed to just let it out,’ he said.
His co-director Daniel Scheinert also offered a glimpse into Jamie Lee’s process of preparing for the sci-fi comedy.
‘Immediately after signing up, she would text us photos of weird outfits and weird hairdos,’ he shared with the magazine.
Bombshell: The actress as seen in the 1985 movie Perfect showing off her athletic figure
Bombshell: The star is seen in the 1994 action movie True Lies doing a famous striptease scene when she was 51 years old
‘There was one photo of an IRS auditor that Dan Kwan had found online – I mean, maybe she worked in a DMV, I don’t know – but this one photo, Jamie was like: “That’s incredible, please let me be her – please, please, please, please.” And that photo became the reference for the hairdo and the outfit.’
During an interview with More magazine years ago, Jamie Lee frankly discussed how fixated her movie star mother was on staying svelte.
‘I think the most complicated relationship my mother had, both loving and often cruel, was with her own body,’ said Jamie Lee.
Figure: The star is pictured with Danielle Brisbois in 1983
Throwback: Jamie Lee had ‘been sucking my stomach in since I was 11, when you start being conscious of boys and bodies, and the jeans are super tight’; pictured aged 19 in 1978
‘Her face was undeniably beautiful, like a shot of something strong, and her body – that body was the chaser. She was intoxicating.’
Jamie Lee reflected: ‘Like anyone who becomes famous for what they look like, when that commodity starts to change, the relationship with it deteriorates.’
She dished: ‘Her friends noted her slimness by calling her Bird Legs, and my mother was incredibly proud that she returned to her 20-inch waist mere weeks after pregnancies; she judged other actresses whose bodies grew and softened.’
Throwback: During an interview with More, Jamie Lee discussed how fixated her movie star mother Janet Leigh was on staying svelte; pictured above in 1967
Shortly after posting her first-look image from Everything All At Once to Instagram, Jamie Lee got to work Austin promoting the project.
She was attending the South By Southwest film festival where she was interviewed by Stephanie Hsu at the Variety Studio.
During the sit-down, Jamie Lee was accompanied by Michelle and their co-star Ke Huy Quan as well as both of their directors.
Jamie Lee cut an elegant figure in a sleek white blazer over a matching top, providing a fashionable contrast to her black slacks and leather boots.
OSCARS 2022: NOMINATIONS
BEST PICTURE
Belfast (Focus Features)
Coda (Apple)
Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
Drive My Car (Janus Films/Sideshow)
Dune (Warner Bros)
King Richard (Warner Bros)
Licorice Pizza (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
Nightmare Alley (Searchlight Pictures)
The Power Of The Dog (Netflix)
West Side Story (20th Century Studios)
On the saddle: Power Of The Dog received several nominations including Best Picture
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Judi Dench – Belfast
Kirsten Dunst- The Power Of The Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – Coda
Jesse Plemons – The Power Of The Dog
J.K Simonns – Being The Ricardos
Kodi Smitt-McPhee – The Power Of The Dog
COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Jumping for joy: West Side Story was nominated for Best Costume Design
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND
Belfast
Dune
No Time To Die
The Power Of The Dog
West Side Story
ORIGINAL SCORE
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power Of The Dog
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Coda
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power Of The Dog
Loud and clear: Coda was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person In The World
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Affairs Of The Heart
Bestia
Box Ballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick… BOOM!
Will Smith – King Richard
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth
Ace? Will Smith is nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for King Richard
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
DIRECTING
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
At the helm: Jane Campion is nominated in the Best Director category for Power Of The Dog
FILM EDITING
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
The Power Of The Dog
tick, tick…BOOM!
MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
House Of Gucci
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells VS The Machine
Raya And The Lost Dragon
ORIGINAL SONG
Be Alive — Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Darius Scott (King Richard)
Dos Oruguitas — Lin-Manuel Miranda (Encanto)
Down to Joy — Van Morrison (Belfast)
No Time to Die — Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell (No Time to Die)
Somehow You Do— Diane Warren (Four Good Days)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing with Fire
VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune
Free Guy
No Time To Die
Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Stunning: Dune earned nods in both the Best Visual Effects and Best Cinematography categories
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power Of The Dog
Tragedy Of Macbeth
West Side Story
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