Jamie Lee Curtis was smitten with now-husband, Christopher Guest, before they even met.
“I married Chris five months after seeing his picture in Rolling Stone. I said out loud to my friend, the late, great Debra Hill, ‘Oh, I’m going to marry that guy,’” Curtis told Sigourney Weaver in a 2015 conversation for Interview magazine. “It was a picture of Chris with Michael McKean and Harry Shearer from Spinal Tap, but just as regular guys. Debra said, ‘Oh, I know him, and he’s with your agency. I tried to get him in a movie.’ So I called the agent, left my number, but Chris never called me. And then I ran into him at a restaurant.”
Despite being excited to see Guest at the dining establishment, Curtis couldn’t muster the courage to introduce herself. Luckily, he rang her up the next day.
“He had kept my number. That was June 28, 1984, and I married him four months later, on December 18,” she recalled.
Curtis and Guest went on to tie the knot in 1984 and adopted their daughters, Annie and Ruby, in 1986 and 1996, respectively.
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