published Friday, Curtis and fellow actor Melanie Griffith, daughter of “The Birds” and “Marnie” star Tippi Hedren, discussed how director Alfred Hitchcock treated their famous mothers during the making of those 1960s films.“I don’t know how he was with your mom, but he apparently was not very good with my mom,” Griffith said.
“I don’t think Janet would have ever acknowledged if there was any bad behavior,” Curtis replied. “She was, it’s a bad term, but kind of Pollyannaish about the industry. I think the #MeToo movement would have really upset her. It’s not fair to unpack that, because she’s dead and I’m going to put words in her mouth, but knowing her, I think she would not say that he misbehaved in any way.
“I don’t think Janet would ever have acknowledged anything, because from her standpoint, she was just grateful,” she told Griffith. “That was very much her take. I think she would have looked at it as, ’That was just the way it was.’”Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis at the"Halloween H20: 20 Years Later" premiere in 1998.Hedren, who is now 91, alleged in 2016 that Hitchcock“You know, she was of the #MeToo movement, and it was not accepted at that time,” Griffith said of her own mother.