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When Jamie Lee Curtis\u2019 blockbuster film True Lies<\/em> premiered worldwide in 1994, it would have been improbable to think that some 30 years later she would be giddy about a TV show \u2013 about as improbable as performing her iconic helicopter stunt without special effects.<\/p>\n \u201cI guarantee you, when I was \u2026 literally hanging under a helicopter above the Florida Keys over the Seven Mile Bridge in Florida, I did not imagine I\u2019d be sitting in New York City that many years later with Nicole Kidman, not only being co-bosses on a show, but then also playing her slutty sister. I was not imagining that as my future,\u201d Curtis says.<\/p>\n The Oscar winners produced and star in Scarpetta<\/em>, a new mystery crime series based on Patricia Cornwell\u2019s popular books and now streaming on Prime Video.<\/p>\n Curtis credits Kidman as one of the major Hollywood players who helped shrink the gulf between perceptions of film and TV roles with prestige series such as Big Little Lies<\/em> and Nine Perfect Strangers<\/em>.<\/p>\n Kidman, 58, plays the titular character Dr Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist who solves complex murders. Upon returning to Virginia, she comes across cases eerily reminiscent of one three decades earlier that catapulted her career forward.<\/p>\n To prepare for the role, Kidman spent time with a medical examiner in Tennessee, where she learned how to hold a scalpel and identify and dissect organs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n