Halloween‘s carving-knife-wieldingJamie Lee Curtisremembers full well that she pledged to put a stiletto through her eye (like one of her other scream screen heroines) ifHillary Clintonwasn’t president come 2017.
Now, in 2018, she says she’s doing something less dramatic, perhaps, but more impactful.
“And it’s the doing that is more important than ever now.”
She writes that she’s joinedFund Her, a Californian organization seeking to elect “progressive women” in order to “finally balance the California legislature.”
Curtis explains that, despite having a “very political” mother, Janet Leigh, she was previously a “passive participant” in politics. That all changed when she spoke “colorfully” about Clinton’s campaign on the red carpet at theGolden Globesin January 2016.
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She writes that “within an hour” Clinton’s team had reached out to her and she was soon in Iowa campaigning for the presidential nominee.
“That’s why Secretary Clinton’s campaign was so important to me,” Curtis explains. “Because when life hinged, when those couple seconds we never saw coming were actually upon us, I trusted absolutely that Secretary Clinton would know what to do.”
“We embraced and sobbed together for all that we knew would come—and it has come,” writes Curtis.
Now, through her work onFund Her, Curtis says she’s connecting with her mother’s legacy in new ways. “No more being passive. No more threats to resort to the stiletto,” Curtis writes. “Maybe I inherited a little of that politics gene from my mother, after all.”
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source: people.com
