Jamie Lee Curtis Calls “A Fish Called Wanda ”Followup Film 'A Piece of S--t': 'We All Did it for Money'

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Jamie Lee Curtis says one of her older films was "a piece of s--t"

Speaking in a South by Southwest panel, the actress spoke about some of her previous work

Curtis was at the South by Southwest festival to promote the new film she produced, Sender

Jamie Lee Curtis is not a fan of one of the films in her oeuvre.

Speaking at a South by Southwest panel on Saturday, March 14 at the JW Marriott in Austin, Texas, Curtis called one of her films, "a piece of s---."

"I was shooting that piece of s---, Fish Called Wanda Two. We were on the back lot. It was awful. We all did it for money," Curtis, 67, said.

While Curtis' 1988 film A Fish Called Wanda did not have a direct sequel, the film's core cast — Curtis, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin — reunited for a 1997 movie, Fierce Creatures.

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Curtis was at the South by Southwest festival to promote the new film she produced, Sender.

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A Fish Called Wanda premiered in 1988 and followed a British gangster and his hapless aide who draft an American duo — grifter Wanda Gerschwitz (played by Curtis) and weapons expert Otto West (Kevin Kline) —for a large-scale diamond heist. The comedy was well-received, with overwhelmingly favorable reviews.

Its 1997 follow-up, Fierce Creatures, touted the same cast members but playing different characters, and revolving around a multimillionaire (played by Kline) who buys a London zoo facing closure. Curtis plays Willa Weston, hired to supervise the zoo, and its misguided director, played by Cleese.

After early test audiences expressed dissatisfaction with the ending, it was re-shot — but still, the film did not receive the attention or applause of its predecessor. Film critic Roger Ebert said the film lacked "the hair-trigger timing, the headlong rush into comic illogic, that made Wanda so special," awarding it two and a half out of four stars.

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