Jamie Lee Curtis is celebrating the release of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” with a deeper insight into her body acceptance. The actor posted a photo of herself on Instagram portraying an IRS investigator slouching back in an office chair, revealing the natural shape of her stomach. Curtis acknowledged the very real industry of “hiding things” with clothes, fillers, body-shapers, and other beauty products. “Everything to conceal the reality of who we are … I want there to be no concealing of anything,” she wrote.
In the film, Curtis is letting loose because, as she explains, “I’ve been sucking my stomach in since I was 11.” According to Daniel Schneinert, co-writer and director of the movie with Dan Kwan, Curtis would send them “photos of weird outfits and weird hairdos” for inspiration. “Everyone assumes that her belly in the movie is a prosthetic, but it’s actually her real belly,” Kwan shared with Entertainment Weekly. “She was grateful that she was allowed to just let it out.”
This is a huge shift from the embarrassment Curtis felt during her nude scene in “Trading Places” nearly 40 years ago, per People. Her excitement about her new role comes across in how dedicated she was to the process. “I very specifically decided to relinquish and release every muscle I had that I used to clench to hide the reality,” she wrote on IG. “I have never felt more free creatively and physically.”
