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“The greatest ‘Final Girl’ in the world,” one fan said, while another added, “You mean a lot to myself, and horror fans and film fans across the world.”
“I love you, we love you, thank you,” a third fan concluded in the video.
Appearing visibly emotional in the clip, the Golden Globe Award-winning actress responded, “Thank you, guys.”
Curtis has been playing the “final girl” Laurie Strode since the 1978 originalHalloweenwhen she was 19 years old.
On Friday, the third installment in director David Gordon Green’s sequel trilogy,Halloween EndsfeaturingMichael Myers' return, debuted in theaters.
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According toVariety, the film ispredicted to earn $43.4 millionat the domestic box office during the opening weekend, playing 3,901 theaters. The production budget was $20 million, the Hollywood trade reported.
In the final film in the threequel, the murderous maniac — notoriously referred to as The Shape — makes his way back to suburban Haddonfield, Illinois, once more to cause havoc after he “disappeared without a trace” in the wake of the events that unfolded four years prior inHalloween Kills.
In an essay writtenexclusively for PEOPLE, Curtis reflected on what it meant to play Laurie Strode in theHalloweenfranchise. She wrote that the character taught her the meaning of the words “resilience,” “loyalty,” “perseverance” and “COURAGE.”
“I have tried over the years to inculcate those aspects of Laurie’s character into my own, to carry that mantle and represent survivors of all types of unimaginable horror and trauma, pain and suffering, who stand up to tyranny and oppression — real and imagined,” she penned.
Halloween Endsis in theaters and streaming on Peacock now.
source: people.com
