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Jamie Lee Curtis: 'I'm planning to retire'
Published Wednesday, Oct 6 2010, 14:12 BST | By Justin Harp
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The You Again star told AARP magazine that she would prefer not acting at all to the alternative of having to surgically alter her look in order to appear younger on-screen.
"There are people who, when you see them on the screen, there's an audible gasp of 'Oh my God'," she said. "They look terrible - or they've done something to themselves and now look like freaks."
Curtis also praised Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver for defying this trend of actresses having to retire young or seek only supporting roles.
"Then there are people who age beautifully. There is one Meryl Streep and one Sigourney Weaver.
"But I could name 30 other actresses in their [age] groups who aren't working today. Me, I'm getting my ass out of this business in a few years because genetically it's not going to work for me."
You Again is now playing in US cinemas.
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