Even worse, it made it easier for people to consume opioids. She added, “I fell deeply in love with the warm bath of an opiate.” “You know, never excessively drank, and never participated in large-scale public protests. I kept quiet and kept it to myself. However, it undoubtedly turned into a dependency.
Curtis has publicly named the man responsible for the insult that started it all, and it has plagued her for decades.
She identified it as the late cinematographer Gordon Willis in a 2019 interview with The New Yorker.
The legendary cameraman Gordon Willis once told me, “Yeah, I’m not shooting her today,” while I was filming the movie Perfect, she said. That day, for whatever reason, I felt swollen. I felt ashamed. I went to get my eyes done immediately after that movie. I discovered Vicodin at that point, and the addiction cycle started.
The Freaky Friday actor claims that even as a young child, her eyes were constantly swollen. “My eyes were naturally swollen. In an interview with Variety, she revealed, “If you look at pictures of me when I was younger, I look like I haven’t slept.”
When it came to my coverage of the scene, [the cameraman] stated, ‘I’m not shooting her today.’ We were filming a scene in a courtroom with that kind of bright, terrible fluorescent light. “Her eyes are too swollen,” she continued.