Jamie Lee Curtis reunites with John Cleese 32-years after playing lovers in A Fish Called Wanda

Jamie Lee Curtis reunited with John Cleese on Thursday morning, almost 32-years have they starred together in comedy classic A Fish Called Wanda. 

Taking to Instagram, the American actress, 61, shared a photo of the pair enjoying lunch while reacting their famous cheek to cheek pose from the film’s promotional poster. 

Captioning the image, she wrote: ‘Something’s fishy here…. oh right, WE ARE OLD! Wanderful lunch with Mr. Cleese.’ 

Confirming it was her only meeting with Cleese, 80, in more than three decades, she added: ‘Together again for the first time.’ 

The former co-stars were already household names when they appeared in director Charles Crichton’s hugely popular heist-comedy, based on an original screenplay by Cleese.   

Curtis, the daughter of Hollywood legends Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, won instant fame after taking the lead role as virginal Laurie Strode in John Carpenter’s iconic Halloween – her first film role. 

Cleese had enjoyed decades of success as part of the legendary Monty Python team, before redefining situation comedy as hapless hotelier Basil Fawlty in ’70s classic Fawlty Towers.

The pair starred alongside Micheal Palin, Kevin Kline and Maria Aitken in the film about gang of jewel thieves who double-cross each another to find stolen diamonds hidden by the gang leader  

Kline would go on to win Best Supporting Actor for is role in the film at the 61st Academy Awards in 1988, while Cleese and Palin would claim Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 1988 British Academy Awards. 

 

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