Washington DC, July 27 -- Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis opened up about her thoughts on retirement and Hollywood's treatment of older actors, drawing on her parents, icons of the industry, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, as reported by Deadline.

She criticised the entertainment world's treatment of older actors, particularly women.

"I witnessed my parents lose the very thing that gave them their fame and their life and their livelihood, when the industry rejected them at a certain age," she said, adding, "I watched them reach incredible success and then have it slowly erode to where it was gone. And that's very painful."

Curtis continued, "I have been self-retiring for 30 years. I have been prepping to get out, so that I don't have to suf...