Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘My biggest roles were to do with my body, my physicality, my sexuality’

As she plays Laurie Strode for the sixth time in Halloween Kills, she discusses sisterhood, survival - and the parallels between Michael Myers and Donald Trump

Jamie Lee Curtis is describing herself to me. I'm in a black hole wearing an orange suit," she says. It's early morning in Los Angeles and I'm feeling really good. Fit as a fiddle." The visual pointers are unnecessary, since we are talking via a video call and that suit could be seen from space: she looks like a human Tic Tac. It is almost as dazzling as the raspberry ensemble she wore, offset by her trademark silver crop, in the whodunit Knives Out.

I have a very close friend who's a fashion girl, and she posted a picture of herself in that top and pants, so I sent it to our wardrobe designer and said: That's my character!'" Curtis has told the story before, but no matter: when she talks, it is as though she is linking her arm through yours. She takes you along for the ride.