Of late, Jamie Lee Curtis has radically shaken up her career. And with a powerful performance in The Last Showgirl, she tells us why she’s done with compromising

Jamie Lee Curtis does not like a mood board. This is what Empire discovered on our photoshoot: that trying to bend Jamie Lee Curtis into a predetermined plan is the quickest way to make her grumpy. “I was so grumpy!” she says a couple of days later over Zoom, laughing. She’d seen our suggested looks and she hated the poses, hated the clothes. She wanted to wear a Loewe blouse she saw Dan Levy wear on a red carpet, with a collar swept up like it was caught in the wind – the chicest thing she had ever seen – but most of all, she just wanted to be herself. Obviously, Empire went along with it – we’re not monsters. “As soon as we started shooting,...