Summary
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Jamie Lee Curtis and Melanie Griffith explore their four-decade friendship on the Good Friend Podcast, tracing their bond from meeting as young actresses in 1980 through separations during relationships and marriages, to their current reconnection as women in their 60s. They discuss their shared backgrounds as daughters of Hitchcock actresses, Melanie's unique upbringing with wild animals, the challenges of maintaining friendships while subsuming themselves in romantic relationships, and how they've found new depth and freedom in their friendship later in life.
Introduction and the Origins of 'Miss Kiss'
Jamie welcomes listeners to the Good Friend Podcast with characteristic humor, acknowledging she put her headphones on backwards. She introduces Melanie Griffith, and they discuss their pet name for each other—'Miss Kiss'—which dates back to the 1980s, possibly around when Melanie's son Alexander was born. The authenticity and unscripted nature of their conversation immediately establishes the genuine intimacy of their decades-long friendship.
- Jamie describes the intimate, unscripted nature of the podcast and her backwards headphones mishap
- They reveal their pet name 'Miss Kiss' for each other, dating to the 1980s
- Discussion of how friends adopt pet names and the mystery of how theirs originated
" What's great about the Good Friend podcast is you get truth. Is that I'm a 62-year-old woman who just put on her earphones improperly. "
Meeting on 'She's in the Army Now' and Shared Heritage
Jamie and Melanie recount meeting in 1980 or 1981 on the TV movie 'She's in the Army Now,' where Jamie played the bad girl and Melanie the farm girl joining the Army. Despite never having met before, they discovered they were both daughters of Hitchcock blonde actresses—Melanie's mother Tippi Hedren and Jamie's mother Janet Leigh. Their immediate connection was strengthened by shared experiences of their Hollywood pedigree and emotional backgrounds, though they didn't fully understand this depth at the time.
- They met on the 1980/81 TV movie about women joining the Army
- Both are daughters of famous Hitchcock blonde actresses but had never met before
- They bonded immediately by playing pool at Barney's Beanery
- Jamie played the bad girl with a toothpick; Melanie the farm girl and young mother
" We met and fell hard with each other we it was as if we had been waiting for each other "
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