Jamie Lee Curtis Reveals She Needed to Create Her Personal Sitcom After Struggling to Get Solid in One
Jamie Lee Curtis is lastly starring within the sitcom she wished to make after deciding to create the chance herself.
“I couldn’t get a job on a sitcom, and now I can as a result of I created one,” she quipped whereas speaking to People about her new NBC comedy, Newlyweds.
Jamie Lee Curtis turned a long-held thought into Newlyweds
Jamie has mentioned she wished to return to sitcoms after starring within the early-’90s collection Anything But Love.
“All I’ve ever mentioned to my brokers is, I need to do a sitcom, and so they’ve not supplied me one. So I had to offer one for myself,” she beforehand instructed TV Insider.
When one other sitcom alternative didn’t come alongside, she helped develop her personal: Newlyweds, which she co-created with Gail Lerner, govt produces, and seems in as a recurring visitor star.
The thought got here to the Oscar winner in 2019 after a dialog with a New York driver who talked about that he had divorced and later remarried.
“An older man was the motive force and mentioned that he was divorced, however then he talked about his new spouse. When he mentioned, ‘My new spouse,’ actually … in that second, I knew [there] was a sitcom about individuals of their 60s and 70s who connected and obtained married on a whim,” she shared with People.
Jamie mentioned the story was “very comparable” to her personal story together with her husband, Christopher Guest. They’ve been married for greater than 40 years.
“I noticed his image in {a magazine}, mentioned I used to be going to marry him and married him 4 months later after by no means being alone collectively for greater than 72 hours,” Jamie mentioned.
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What is Newlyweds about?
The sitcom stars real-life married couple Téa Leoni and Tim Daly as Jeanie, a free-spirited girl, and James, a extra buttoned-up professor. After a whirlwind courtship, the pair marry and start adjusting to one another’s households and buddies. Jamie performs Claudia, James’ ex-wife, who stays a part of his life.
Newlyweds premiered Friday, Oct. 23, at 8:30 p.m. ET on NBC. New episodes air Friday nights, and episodes stream on Peacock the next day.
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