Jamie Lee Curtis reveals cryptic teaser for what's to come for 'Halloween' after final film

The last (yet most fitting) thing you'd expect on Halloween is a cold call from OG Final Girl, Jamie Lee Curtis.

But just a few moments later Weekly entertainment sent a request to the star's team for more information about the Oscar-winning actress' involvement in the production of filmmaker Zeberiah Newman's upcoming documentary about '90s fitness icon Susan Powter, similar to Laurie Strode himself Halloween Franchise star took matters into his own hands.

At the end of a wide-ranging discussion about how she can exert her power through her own production company, Comet Pictures, and several upcoming projects (including…). Freakier Friday, The lost busand the series with Nicole Kidman Scarpetta(which she is currently filming in Nashville, Tennessee), we ended our conversation with a look back (and a look ahead) at the 65-year-old's legacy with the slasher franchise founded by John Carpenter.

“I hung up my bell-bottoms and my light blue button-down shirt and gave up [Laurie] with a hearty 'Aloha' and thanks for all the years and memories to last forever,” Curtis tells EW when asked if she's really done with it Halloween Film series forever, after 2022 Halloween ends – announced as the final installment of director David Gordon Green's three-film revival of the classic series, which began in 2018 Halloween – dealt a fatal, lasting blow to any potential that masked serial killer Michael Myers could bring back for more mayhem.

“And yet,” Curtis continues, “if I’ve learned anything in my 65 years on this planet, it’s to never say never. Goodbye.” And then she hung up immediately without another word.

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The horror icon has played Laurie Strode, Myers' sister, seven times throughout her career, including her breakthrough role in the first film Halloween film in 1978.

To date, the franchise (which also includes several films not starring Curtis, including filmmaker Rob Zombie's attempted 2007 reboot) has grossed nearly $900 million at the box office, with the return of Green in 2018, which brought Laurie back into the spotlight as a traumatized doomsday recluse with daughter (Judy Greer) and granddaughter (Andi Matichak) – the largest gross of the entire collection at $260 million worldwide.

In a 2018 EW cover story for the film, Curtis told us that she endured an intense emotional struggle as she revisited the trauma Myers had inflicted on Laurie over the years. “I started crying the day I arrived,” she said at the time. “I didn’t stop crying until I left.”