Jamie Lee Curtis is formally an Oscar winner. On March 12, the “Everything Everywhere All at Once” actor took residence the award for greatest supporting actress on the 2023 Academy Awards. Speaking with Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie on “Today” two days later, Curtis took a second to mirror on her first-time win and rejoice her trans daughter, Ruby Guest, with the award.
“In help of my daughter Ruby, I’m having them be a they/them.”
“Here they’re,” Curtis stated, proudly holding the Oscar statuette as much as the digital camera in the course of the interview. When Guthrie requested if Curtis had “named her” but, the actor defined that she solely plans to make use of they/them pronouns whereas referring to the statuette, in honor of her 27-year-old daughter, Ruby, who’s transgender.
“In help of my daughter Ruby, I’m having them be a they/them,” Curtis informed Guthrie and Kotb. “I’m going to only name them them, they/them. And they’re doing nice; they’re settling in. In my life, I by no means thought in 1,000,000 years that I might have this couple days, and I’m very moved by the entire thing.”
In the press room following her win, Curtis — who has been vocal about her help for the transgender neighborhood — additionally shared her stance on eradicating gendered awards from award exhibits altogether. “I want to see much more ladies be nominated so there’s gender parity in all of the branches,” Curtis stated, in keeping with Entertainment Weekly.
Curtis continued, “We’re getting there — we’re not wherever close to there. The inclusivity entails the larger query, which is how do you embrace everybody? As the mom of a trans daughter, I perceive that. But to degender the class I’m involved will diminish the alternatives for extra ladies. The most essential factor is inclusivity and extra ladies. Basically, simply extra f*cking ladies, on a regular basis and all of sudden.”
During the award present, the solid and crew of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” took residence a complete of seven awards, together with Michelle Yeoh’s historic greatest actress win and Ke Huy Quan’s greatest actor in a supporting function win.
Ahead, watch a clip from Curtis’s “Today” interview and see the actor’s response to receiving her first Oscar.