Two decades after being the "scream queen," Curtis reinvented herself as a character actor of staggering range. Her role in The Bear (second season) as Donna Berzatto—a mother unraveling at a holiday dinner—was ten minutes of television so raw it triggered PTSD discussions across social media. She didn't need a knife or a mask to terrify; she needed only the silent agony of a woman who outlived her own usefulness in her own mind.