Jamie Lee Curtis recently reflected on her career and legacy in a discussion with actor Colin Farrell for Variety, and Farrell asked Curtis what “Everything Everywhere All at Once” meant to her. The actress, who got her start in the “Halloween” franchise in 1978, explained the reasoning behind the film’s chaotic plot. “Daniel Kwan has talked about the origins of the movie,” she said. “And he talked about our phones and the society we live in, which is this digital input: In one second, we’re seeing the catastrophe of the nightclub shooting last night. And then in one swipe of our finger, it’s a cat video. And one swipe of our finger, it’s politics and Twitter. And then the amount of information that we’re processing as human beings now, demanding it from our brain …”
When Farrell added, “They transposed that chaos, that kind of instantaneous agitation …” Curtis responded, “… and found the center. Which is love, kindness, family, forgiveness, living with regret. We all live with regret.”
