Jamie Lee Curtis Settles Her Beef with Jimmy Talks Starring in Scarpetta with Nicole Kidman

I was trying to figure out what you were gonna play for me as my I thought you were gonna play You know what? I think you were gonna play What do you think? I was gonna Rocky theme. I told I told quest love on his pod Is that what you call it? Yes. Okay Talking about his pod. No, I wasn't So fast so early Slutty but No, I was telling quest love that I used to listen to the theme from Rocky before auditions Oh, I love that I would I would sit in my car and listen to the theme from Rocky before I to pump me up and get pumped up Yeah, I was like 18 or 19 years old. I was in my car. I love that I was actually just gonna ask you about your first appearance on TV. I well, we're the second This is my second time with you. I don't know why why have you rejected me? Yeah, right, why have you rejected I'll give me a break you are unbelievable I was only here twice if you live in LA, I think it's the only reason we've loved you Thanks for like ridiculing me from where I live. I'm born and raised in the City of Angels Angels it is the city. I know but no one calls that you're here, but Jamie Any any time in New York? Are we gonna get into like a thing? No, this is the thing is this you have an open invitation and I want you to come on the show any time You're in okay open. I don't care what you have going on anything Absolutely adore you and everyone on the staff. Absolutely. That's very nice of you. Yes, I Here's what's weird. I was on it's weird. I was on The Tonight Show my second job in show business I was under contract at Universal and I did a couple shows my first job was a Quincy and then my second job was a Columbo and I played a waitress in a diner That he walks in, you know Jimmy Peter Falk and he and he walked in with a donut and I play a bitchy waitress and and he walks in with this Donut and oh anyway, I I was and he took that clip on the night No on The Tonight Show. Okay to promote the show So I was on The Tonight Show my second job in show business was on The Tonight Show Wow Yes Yes, what's the TV? I want to hear what? Well, he walks in with a donut. Of course. She says you can't eat that here and he goes. Oh, yeah I'm sorry And then he hands me the donut yeah, and then I glare at him then I leave then they do something about the show And then I come back and I go have you decided what you want? And he goes, oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Oh I'll have a donut And then I glare it but that's a thing that's so good about it is that it's a patented glare I'm gonna do to you right now. All right. Yeah Wow that was that's fantastic I could tell that in your in your brain you're nothing but love For you. Yes, I do. Yeah, very nice, man. Thank you. You're handsome. Thank you. I love very talented Yeah, nice. Oh, yeah This is why I want you to come back every time so good for my ego I want to talk about a scarpetta by the way, this is massive you and Nicole Kidman. I know it's so fun It's based on the the popular books, oh my gosh, I don't say 120 million Easily 120 million books have sold but she's written 36 books. Um, she is a friend of mine We are we are friends and you don't wonder I'm a producer now. So one of these one day I said to her Hey, what's up with scarpetta? Yeah, and she was like nothing. I was like, what do you mean because nothing I said, okay so I I I Called Jason Blum. I'm sure you've met Jason Blum. Yes. You guys are very similar. Do you know Jason? I do not like the two of you. You're immature, but handsome, but no Happily married parents. I think we're booked for the next year Have a youthful exuberance about your life and your passion for what you do. He's very okay So he's my boss. Oh my boss because I have a deal with him We produced the movie The Lost Bus last year and now we're producing scarpetta So I brought them to him we're now producing the show and We were trying to cast the show and so then the question of who's gonna play scarpetta This is a true story that no one has ever heard and I know you have something here that has to do with it so in 2021 I was presenting the Oscar to it was the in memoriam to Betty White Right, and my idea was I was part of the show and it was during kovats And we were at these cafe tables and my idea was Betty White was an animal rights activist I should get a rescue puppy to Take on the show with me and live on television in front of a billion people say in spirit of Betty White Someone adopt this puppy and you know, let's honor her that would love that. Do you know who adopted that puppy? John Travolta Backstage at the Oscars John Travolta took that puppy And he still has a puppy. So anyway, I am sitting at I'm sitting at a table minding my own dang business Yeah, and I was talking to my friend Heidi looking up like this and she said Jamie somebody must talk to you I said, what do you what do you mean? She said somebody is behind you and I turned around like this Nicole Kidman is standing like oh, yes this just standing behind me in this seat and I Looked up and I was like And she looked at me never met her never see I've seen her obviously in her work and she looked at me and she said I see you I See what you do and I see how you do it and I see what you say what you care about and I want you to know you need to keep doing it and You're amazing This does not happen that does not happen that doesn't like that doesn't happen Wow and I just was like Okay Wow, and you're really good, too Nominated for an Oscar that year for Lucille ball and then she walked away and I was like So anyway, so it turns out Nicole has always wanted to play Scarpetta Because we had a meeting with her producing partner. And so all of a sudden she hears we're producing a show of Scarpetta She says we hear she wants to be in it She says to me and you're producing the show Jamie and I'm like, yes she goes and you're in it I Am now That's how I am in this show because Nicole Kidman said and of course you're in it and you know what it's called the Nicole Kidman effect. I I it's an extraordinary thing what happens, you know right away We got a two-season pickup at Amazon like that. Yeah, cuz that's right Here she is Was the picture somebody took a picture of me meeting her at the Oscars This is actually a historic moment. That's real. Isn't that amazing? Crazy isn't that crazy how life works that there's a picture of that moment. Yeah, I just blew my mind Yeah, absolutely blew my mind. What what a cast by the way. Yeah, you and Nicole came in at Meridian fantastic Bobby kind of Ollie plays Marino. I know Plays Mariana DuBose plays my daughter. That's my pal and Simon Baker Oh Yes, he plays Nicole he plays Nicole's husband. Yeah, and we all live together in a house So the way it happened is Lucy's had a tragedy and the whole family comes together And now these four adults are all now living in in this house. That was part of Simon Baker's family legacy Yeah, and it's odd because Nicole Kidman plays a medical exam a medical examiner She was the first woman medical examiner 30 years ago and now 30 years later She comes back and she's taking the same job and we're all living together and it's very intense Oh, and if you love a little crime thriller, it's perfect. I want to show everyone a clip Here's Jamie Lee Curtis in Scarpetta. Take a look Can you believe this? No, did you know morning you gave my husband a job? Yeah Why would you do that K because I needed help Well, why him because I'm surrounded by vipers in that office and I need someone I can trust Yeah Can we all remember please that this was once my former? What do you call vocation? What about the private PI business that you were gonna start with Lucy Peter? Uh, how are you gonna start that up now that you are what former vocating with her?