Jamie Lee Curtis, actress, Trading Places, True Lies

There were a bunch of laughs in Freaky Friday, but not one big one. Trading Places had a couple. A Fish Called Wanda had a couple. But the biggest laugh I have ever gotten in my life, in a movie, without question, I owe to Jim Cameron. We were shooting the striptease scene in True Lies. In this sequence, here's this woman who's a conservative housewife who has to pretend to be a stripper. And here I am, me, dancing — which I can do a little bit — scantily clad. I kind of shut my eyes and imagined that I was pole dancing. It got very intense and it stopped being funny. It was Jim, who on the second day came up to me and said, "next time, I want you to let go. I want you to fall." And that is, without question, the biggest laugh I will ever get in my life.

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