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Jamie Lee Curtis may be one of the most enduring faces of modern horror, the ultimate scream queen whose name is synonymous with Halloween itself, but before Laurie Strode and Michael Myers ever crossed paths, she was just an 18-year-old actress sitting at a Universal Studios commissary being told she was out of a job. “I was embarrassed and a little humiliated,” she recalls in an excerpt from the upcoming book All the Cool Girls Get Fired by Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill, per The Sydney Morning Herald. “I felt that sting of the adrenaline hit, the shame that someone was looking at me like, ‘You’re not good enough.’”

Curtis’ first acting job was on

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