ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty In her wide-ranging60 Minutesinterview on Sunday, Jamie Lee Curtis talked about the days post-Halloween The actress said roles weren't exactly rolling in, but she did get to work with her mother, actress Janet Leigh, in an episode ofThe Love Boat Curtis acknowledged her parents' jobs as actors helped her in Hollywood, but her auditions were what got her the real roles Jamie Lee Curtisarguably broke out in 1978's horror classicHalloween,but she says her next "big" role wasn't exactly the biggest. "My big break afterHalloweenwas, I was onLove Boatwith Janet Leigh, beautiful Janet Leigh playing my mother," Curtis said of herreal-life actress mom. "Then I was in aCharlie's Angelsepisode where I played Cheryl Ladd's best friend, pro golfer. So those are the two jobs I got post-Halloween." On the 1978 episode ofThe Love Boat,"Chubs/Locked Away/Till Death Do Us Part - Maybe," Curtis played newlywed Linda, contemplating divorce after sparring with husband Wayne (Peter Coffield). Her divorced parents, Les (Conrad Bain) and Gail (Leigh), drop in on them somewhat unexpectedly, leading them to reconcile while stuck on the ship as Linda and Wayne move closer to a split. Acknowledging that her mom anddad Tony Curtis' status in Hollywood likely helped her career in part, she noted she was "doing her thing" when she began acting, and it was her auditions that got her to the final two candidates forHalloween. "This was a $300,000 horror movie, this was not a job that a lot of people wanted," Curtis, 66, said. The film ultimately made $47 million and became a multi-movie franchise. The Oscar winnersaid her life "hinged on a couple seconds I never saw coming," after a friend suggested she audition for Universal while home on a break from college. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "I never thought I'd be an actor in my life," she said. "My teeth were the color of concrete; they were gray. I was cute but not pretty. And so I never saw that coming." Though she actually wanted to be a cop after finishing college, she went to the Universal audition, and "they called me the next day and gave me a seven-year contract ... and I quit college." Not long after, she'd landHalloweenat just 19 years old. Funny enough, Curtis confirmed the rumor that she doesn't like scary movies, because, as she said, "life is scary." Elsewhere in the interview, Curtis spoke about the painful reason she first decided to get plastic surgery in her younger years (a comment made about her appearance on set) and the choice to take on her famous commercial roles of the 1990s and 2000s: "For the most part, because they allowed me to stay home with my kids,"the mom-of-two said. Read the original article onPeople
