Jamie Lee Curtis plays aunt Helen in Ella McCay, written and directed by James L. Books.
She talked about the movie with similar words, both on The View (ABC) and on Today (NBC).
Ella (Emma Mackey) is “a young politician who has the deep belief that public service is about caring for and helping other people. A quaint and insane imagining today, because politics is all about greed and self serving rather than public serving. She has a douchey father, a douchey husband, and her aunt is her total backbone, her number one cheerleader. Ella is going through what we all are going through as a country, we are holding back our feelings, our frustrations, our outrage. And we have to scream, let out our communal expression of rage. I am actually feeling hopeful, that we are beginning to say no.”
Jamie Lee Curtis as Helen (c) 20th Century Studios
About James Brooks, who sent her a handwritten note asking her to play the part, Jamie Lee said: “He’s legendary. He makes great movies that stand the test of time: Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), As Good as It Gets (1997). They make you laugh, they make you cry. Ella McCay is an uplifting perfect family movie, exactly what we need at the holidays.”
Please read here my article about Jamie Lee Curtis in Cultural Daily.