There’s a COVID superspreader in Hollywood.
On the 2025 SAG Awards on Sunday, Jamie Lee Curtis offered the award for Male Actor in a TV Film or Restricted Collection, and earlier than she learn Colin Farrell’s title because the winner, she leveled a playful accusation on the Irish actor.
“And the actor goes to… the man who gave me COVID at the Golden Globes, Colin Farrell,” Curtis, 66, mentioned.
“The Penguin” star, 48, went on stage to just accept his award, hugged “The Last Showgirl” actress, and mentioned to the gang, “Guilty as charged!”
“But Brendan Gleeson f—ing gave it to me, so I was just spreading the love,” Farrell added, as Curtis laughed on the facet of the stage.
Farrell and Curtis gave the impression to be referencing the 2023 Golden Globes, the place they each had been nominated for his or her respective initiatives “The Banshees of Inisherin” (additionally starring Gleeson, 69) and “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Three days after the January 2023 award present, Curtis introduced that she contracted COVID.
“Sadly, this head cheerleader is not going to be at all the weekend festivities cheering on her friends and colleagues,” the actress wrote on Instagram. “Life on life’s terms. I’m glad that there are all these home tests available so that I didn’t go to the @americanfilminstitute lunch and spread my germs.”
She added, “I was SO looking forward to going to the @bafta tea and the @criticschoice awards as a nominee and member of a motley crew! I’m so proud of these people, and I look forward to cheering them on through my TV set. Stay safe out there people.”
Two months later, Curtis and Farrell each attended the 2023 Academy Awards the place Curtis received her first Oscar for her efficiency in “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”
To advertise their critically acclaimed films that each got here out in 2022, Curtis and Farrell had been paired up in Selection’s Actors on Actors sequence and bonded over being sober.
“I had suspicions, before I got sober, of how painful life could be,” Farrell mentioned within the interview. “But I had no ability to hold that without being self-destructive and without living in it… I don’t live in that now.”
When requested about her legacy, Curtis informed Farrell, “Being sober is going to be a legacy, for sure. Because I’m stopping what has been a generational issue in my biological family. It’ll be the single greatest thing I do, if I can stay sober.”
