Jamie Lee Curtis spoke with her Borderlands co-star Kevin Hart on his SiriusXM podcast Gold Minds about how she asks film crews to wear name tags. The idea is an effort to be “equitable,” as “there isn’t hierarchy in art.” “There’s something really uneven about our position on a set, on a movie, in this arena,” Curtis said.
“You guys know our names, we don’t know yours. There’s something inequitable to me about that..
.On a movie set, if we were all working together, we would all be wearing name tags so that tomorrow when we came in, I would be able to then say ‘good morning [Sabine]’ without [a] thought because I’ve learned her name.” She added, “I just want it to be equitable because it’s an important thing.
It’s art. There isn’t hierarchy in art. It’s supposed to be a group of people.
” Curtis’ policy of name tags dates to the production of 2018’s Halloween , which marked her return to the iconic franchise. Crew members used their name tags to show their solidarity with Curtis’ character, Laurie Strode, while she was filming the last scene of the film. “I was in my trailer preparing for my work, which was going to be emotional, cathartic.
It was described as a moment where Laurie sort of replays the 40 years since this first occurred,” Curtis explained. “I’m someone who likes name tags because everybody knows my name, but often I don’t know anyone else’s. And so, whenever I start any project, I ask for everybody to .