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Jamie Lee Curtis spotted at Providence restaurant

The actress is in Rhode Island's capital filming "Ella McCay."

Jamie Lee Curtis arrives at the 2023 Oscars. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

February 28, 2024

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Even Oscar-winning actresses need their pizza fix.

Jamie Lee Curtis, who is in Rhode Island shooting a new movie, visited Figidini, a Providence pizza restaurant, earlier this week.

“Your energy was infectious & was radiating as hot as our oven,” the restaurant said in an Instagram post featuring a picture of Curtis.

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Curtis is in the city filming “Ella McCay,” a movie that follows “an idealistic young politician who juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of her mentor, the state’s longtime incumbent governor,” according to Deadline.

The film’s cast and crew, including Curtis, Woody Harrelson, and Emma Mackey, attended an event at the Rhode Island State House at the beginning of the month to launch the filming of the movie. “Ella McCay” will be primarily filmed in Providence but will extend to other parts of the state, Steven Feinberg, executive director of the Rhode Island Film & Television Office, told the Boston Globe.

“America is about ideas, and this is a movie about big ideas and people dreaming for the betterment for other people,” Curtis said at the even