That’s Curtis as claw-wielding Spanish cage fighter Vega, a boss character who originally appeared in Street Fighter II, and her husband, writer and director Christopher Guest, as Tekken character Dr. Bosconovitch. (Luckily, 2012’s Street Fighter X Tekken established that characters from the two universes can interact, lest the Curtis-Guest family be torn apart in a storm of errant non-canonicity.) As Curtis discussed in an interview promoting her recent film Spare Parts, the tournament trip was a graduation present for her son, Thomas, who appears in the photo as Street Fighter character Dee Jay.
Curtis has yet to address the elephant in the room: the fact that Vega’s use of claws in a martial arts tournament is total bullshit, even if he was fighting against a magic-limbed yoga master, or a green Brazilian monster man. Still, her incognito appearance at EVO raises the possibility that any faceless cosplayer encountered at a nerd-friendly event might secretly be Jamie Lee Curtis, World’s Coolest Mom. That half-orc wandering in a helmet at DragonCon? Curtis. The yogurt-sipping Stormtrooper hanging out at Celebration? CURTIS. That guy in the Ghostbusters suit, trying to get people to talk to him at Comic-Con? Actually, never mind, that one’s Dan Aykroyd. False alarm, people. Wrong Trading Places star.
