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Jamie Lee Curtis revealed the secret to maintaining her decades-long marriage to Christopher Guest during a Today appearance on Wednesday, December 12.
The couple will celebrate their 40th anniversary on December 18, so Curtis, 66, gave the show's co-host Hoda Kotb some insight into her relationship with the 76-year-old This is Spinal Tap director.
"Do you guys just keep growing together? What is it?" Kotb asked.
"You know what, it is that," the Halloween actress said. "Ultimately, Chris wasn't a director when I married him, I wasn't a writer. Chris wasn't a producer when I married him, I wasn't a producer when he married me. We have grown into these new jobs that we've done."
"He still makes me laugh more than any human being and I'm sure there's something about me that he likes," she added.
Curtis and Guest wed in 1984 after only dating for six months, according to People. They went on to have two daughters: Annie, 38, and Ruby, 26. (Ruby came out as trans in 2020.)
During the December 3 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Curtis recounted the awkward whirlwind of how she first met Guest. "I called his agent and left my number, he never called me," she said. "We ran into each other in a restaurant, he kind of went like this [wave], I went like this [wave], he called me the next day. We went out."
She also unearthed "the receipt of when he went into Cartier to buy this very ring on my finger," prompting her to discuss the proposal's backstory.
"He was shooting SNL in New York and I was shooting the movie Perfect. I was on something called a payphone where you put quarters in and I remember we were speaking and I said, 'What did you do today?'" the Everything Everywhere All at Once actress quipped. "And then in typical boy fashion, 'Do you like diamonds?' Now, I'm telling the truth. So then he came out to Los Angeles and... Well, he proposed in a more private and intimate way."
Outside of her love life, Curtis is having a major year for her career. In addition to filming the Freaky Friday sequel with Lindsay Lohan, she appears alongside Pamela Anderson in the new film The Last Showgirl. She also co-produced Prime Video's new series, The Sticky.
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