Jamie Lee Curtis lifts the curtain to her mom Janet Leigh’s Bold Link in “The Lost Bus”

Jamie Lee Curtis recently revealed her late mom, Janet Leigh’s, a stunning relationship with her latest movie, The lost bus.

For those unversed, American actor and film producer who won the Oscar served as a producer in Matthew McConaughey’s upcoming film, The lost bus.

At the 2025 Film Festival, Curtis shared that he became part of the project in 2021 with Jason Blum and wanted to meet real people behind history.

He told the audience about a meeting with Kevin McKay, a bus driver who, with teacher Mary Ludwig, helped save the children during the 2018 fire in California.

THE Freakier Friday The star broke McKay for “The Last Happy Memory” he had with his mom before the fire, revealing it was when he got his mother to see Curtis in 2018 31 October continuity.

He said: “This was very moving, right away, I felt related, then I spoke to Maria, Maria was much more guarded than Kevin, Kevin was Grigarc, Maria was a little more worrying.”

Curtis continued to reveal Ludwig’s “strange connection” to recall, “he said,” my father dates from your mother. ” [I asked]”For real?” I said, “Where?” He said, “Merced, California”.

“Now, you know my mother as Janet Leigh. But before she was Janet Leigh. She was Jeanette Helen Morrison from Merced, California and her father Mary Ludwig dated to Jeanette” True lies The actress said.

Moving forward, Curtis stressed that “this moment with Kevin and Maria was born of something much bigger” and enjoyed the fact that we are all here with you at the world premiere of a movie about their story that a master said by a master is just a fascinating, bizarre [moment]“Before the event is completed.

It is important to mention that The lost bus It will be released in selected theaters on September 19, before going to Apple TV+ on October 3, 2025.