Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that she gave her Oscar they/them pronouns in a brand new interview with Today on Tuesday, March 14. While displaying off her Academy Award, the actress, 64, admitted that she determined to provide the award gender-neutral pronouns as a present of affection for her daughter Ruby, 27, who’s transgender.
“In support of my daughter Ruby, I’m having them be a ‘they/them,’” Jamie Lee Curtis mentioned about her #Oscars trophy. pic.twitter.com/h9Ik0SNBzE
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) March 14, 2023
When Savannah Guthrie requested if Jamie had named the Oscar statue, the Halloween star revealed that she didn’t, however she had been referring to the trophy with gender-neutral pronouns. “In support of my daughter Ruby, I’m having them be a they/them. I’m going to just call them them,” she mentioned. “They are doing great, and they’re settling in, and I just couldn’t in my life, I never thought in a million years that I would have this couple days, and I’m very moved by the whole thing.”
Jamie had revealed that her daughter was transgender again in a July 2021 interview with AARP The Magazine. The outlet mentioned that she and her husband Christopher Guest “watched in wonder and pride as our son became our daughter Ruby. And she and her fiancé will get married next year at a wedding that I will officiate.”
Earlier within the interview, Jamie teared up whereas watching her acceptance speech, revealing that she hadn’t gotten an opportunity to look at it since she gained the Best Supporting Actress award on Sunday night time. It was a really candy second to get to see her response to the wonderful win.
Jamie’s win for her position in Everything Everywhere All At Once, which additionally gained a ton of different awards together with Best Picture, was her first ever Academy Award win. In her acceptance speech, she thanked her dad and mom who have been additionally Oscar nominees themselves.
Later within the interview, she received a little bit choked up once more, whereas talking about her dad and mom and at last with the ability to win an award. “They’ve been my beautiful shadow my whole life,” she mentioned. “They were both nominated for Oscars and never won one.”