Jamie Lee Curtis won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in ‘Everywhere Everything All at Once,’ and she refers to her brand new golden statuette as they/them. Curtis appeared on “Today” after her Oscar win and host Savannah Guthrie asked if “she named her,” in reference to the Oscars statue.
“I support my daughter Ruby. I make them be a they/them,” Curtis replied tearfully. “I’ll just call them ‘them.’ They, and they’re doing great, they’re settling in, and I’m just, in my life, I’ve never seen this in a million years that I’d have these few days, and I’m very moved by the whole thing.”
Curtis’s daughter, Ruby, came out transgender to their family in 2020. The Oscar-winning actor opened up to people magazine a year later, about taking over Ruby and adapting to using their pronouns.
“He speaks a new language,” Curtis said. “It’s learning new terminology and new words. I am new in this field. I’m not someone who pretends to know a lot about it. And I’m gonna blow it up, I’m gonna make mistakes. I would like to try to avoid making big mistakes… You are slowing down your speech a bit. You become a little more aware of what you are saying. How do you say it. You always mess up, I messed up twice today. We are human.
Curtis added, “But if a person reads this, sees a picture of Ruby and me, and says, ‘I feel free to say this is who I am,’ then it’s worth it.”
Backstage at the Oscars following her win, Curtis called for greater gender parity among Oscar branches so that more inclusive nominations are possible in the future.
“The biggest question is how do you include everyone when there are binary choices, which is very difficult, and as the mother of a trans girl, I totally understand that,” Curtis said. “And yet to degender the categories, I’m afraid it will reduce opportunities for more women, which I’ve worked hard to promote. The most important thing is inclusivity and more women…basically just more fucking women anywhere, anytime, all at once.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” won the Oscars with seven wins, including Best Picture. Curtis’ co-stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan won the Academy Awards for Best Actress and Supporting Actor, respectively.