Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed that she asks all crew members to wear name tags on the sets of her films.
The actor made the revelation as she appeared on a recent episode of the SiriusXM podcast Gold Minds, hosted by Kevin Hart.
During the interview, the Halloween star addressed how she tries to implement a relatively uncommon practice into the sets that she works on, wearing name tags. This, she explained was in the hopes of making the environment fairer for staff, and allowing her to refer to people by their names.
“There’s something really uneven about our position on a set, on a movie, in this arena,” she said. “You guys know our names, we don’t know yours. There’s something inequitable to me about that.”
She continued: “On a movie set if we were all working together, we would all be wearing name tags so that tomorrow when we came in, I would be able to then say ‘Good morning [Sabine]’ without [a second] thought, because I’ve learned her name.”
As the interview progressed, she went on to suggest that with the fast-paced environment made at film sets, it can be easy to prioritise speed and efficiency over human interaction and basic levels of respect – hence why she pushes for the name tags to be implemented.
“I just want it to be equitable because it’s an important thing,” she concluded. “It’s art – there isn’t hierarchy in art. It’s supposed to be a group of people.”
Curtis also spoke about the push to make name tags more common back in 2021, when she was promoting the horror film Halloween Kills.
Taking part in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter (via Entertainment Weekly) around the time, the actor revealed that during her last scene of filming, the entire crew gathered around and showed their appreciation by all wearing the same name tag.
“The entire crew were standing in silent solidarity with their hands behind their backs,” she recalled. And everyone was wearing a name tag. And the name tag said, ‘We are Laurie Strode.’”
Both Curtis and Hart have worked together in the past and recently appeared together in the Eli Roth adaptation of the video game Borderlands, which was developed into a film.
Now, Curtis is currently working on the long-awaited sequel to the 2003 comedy Freaky Friday.
Details of the project were shared back in March, when lead actor Lindsay Lohan confirmed to SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen that a follow-up film is finally in the works.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan starred in the 2003 Disney remake of Jodie Foster’s 1976 film of the same name. For their remake, Curis played a strict, by-the-books mother while Lohan played her rebellious teenage daughter Anna. After a heated argument, the pair swap bodies and begin to see through each other’s perspectives.
Lohan first began speaking of Freaky Friday 2 in 2022 after she revealed to Jimmy Fallon that Curtis had floated the idea to her.