Jamie Lee Curtis
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Jamie Lee Curtis says her daughter Ruby Guest’s life is threatened “just forexisting as a human being.”
the Halloween Ends star, 63, told Spanish radio network Cadena SER in aninterview published Tuesday that increases in transphobia and hate speechagainst transgender people like Ruby, 26, scares her.
“I have a trans daughter. There are threats against her life, just forexisting as a human being. There are people who want to annihilate her, herand people like her,” Curtis said. “The level of hatred is … as if we had notlearned from fascism, as if we hadn’t learned what the result of that is. Theextermination of human beings. That’s terrifying.”
“So Jamie Lee Curtis is scared, and so should you be,” she continued. “AndJamie Lee Curtis has a voice, and she’s trying to use it, and you should too.”
The actress added, “And that’s how we change things, by thinking about them,learning about them, and then using our voices to draw attention and fightthem.”
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Annie Guest, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ruby Guest at the premiere of “HalloweenEnds” held at TCL Chinese Theater on October 11, 2022 in Los Angeles,California.
Mark Von Holden/Variety via Getty From left: Annie Guest, Jamie Lee Curtisand Ruby Guest
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Ruby came out as trans to Curtis and her dad, Curtis’ husband ChristopherGuest, in 2020.
“It was scary — just the sheer fact of telling them something about me theydidn’t know,” Ruby told PEOPLE in an October 2021 interview alongside hermother. “It was intimidating — but I wasn’t worried. They had been soaccepting of me my entire life.”
When Ruby first tried to tell her parents she was trans, she found herselfunable to in person and texted Curtis after a visit to the family’s LosAngeles home in 2020.
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“I called her immediately. Needless to say there were some tears involved,”Curtis told PEOPLE in October 2021.
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On Tuesday, Ruby and sister Annie Guest accompanied Curtis on the red carpetfor the world premiere of her upcoming slasher Halloween Ends at the TCLChinese Theater in Los Angeles.
All three women looked glamorous as they posed together with Curtis in themiddle, wearing a shimmery red off-the-shoulder gown with long sleeves.
Annie, 35, rocked a strapless black dress with a sweetheart neckline andsilver roses on either side of the bodice, while her younger sibling wore asilver dress under a black jacket. Ruby also carried the perfect accessory forthe event over her shoulder: a pumpkin-shaped bag.
“My family. Proudest mother. Loving support. @halloweenmovie,” Curtiscaptioned a photo of the glammed-up trio on Instagram.
Annie Guest, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ruby Guest attend Universal Pictures WorldPremiere of “Halloween Ends” on October 11, 2022 in Hollywood, California.
Alberto Rodriguez/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty From left: Ruby Guest,Jamie Lee Curtis and Annie Guest
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Curtis’s final Halloween movie premiere comes four months after sheofficiated the wedding of daughter Ruby and her partner Kynthia during anevent in the family’s backyard where attendants and guests came in cosplayattire.
“We’re gonna have a beautiful picnic in the backyard. I’m really excited,”Curtis told Jimmy Kimmel Live! host Jimmy Kimmel about the wedding duringan appearance in March.
She added, “Both my children will have been married in my backyard, whichbrings me to tears.”
“It’s so much more meaningful,” the mother of two explained. “Just forgettingall of show-off business — being a parent, having both of your childrenmarried in your backyard.”