Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis will play mom and daughter as soon as once more! Disney confirmed in Could 2023 that the extremely anticipated Freaky Friday sequel was formally within the works.
“As I went world wide with Halloween Ends, folks needed to know if there was going to be one other Freaky Friday. One thing actually touched a chord,” Curtis informed The New York Occasions. “Once I got here again, I referred to as my pals at Disney and stated, ‘It appears like there’s a film to be made.’”
Lohan, for her half, agreed, revealing that she and Curtis have been “leaving it within the arms that be” at Disney. “We might solely make one thing that folks would completely adore,” she added.
The primary Freaky Friday premiered in 2003, with Lohan taking part in the position of teenage Anna and Curtis starring as her mother, Tess. Amid their fixed combating, the mother-daughter duo discover themselves consuming magic fortune cookies that power them to modify our bodies. Mark Harmon and Chad Michael Murray additionally star.
When reflecting on the movie to rejoice its 20-year anniversary, Curtis remembered Lohan as “fluid” on set.
“She has a facility as an actor that’s actually spectacular,” the actress shared within the movie’s NYT profile. “It was a giant job. It was a giant manufacturing. And our relationship was very simple.”
Lohan recalled Curtis taking “me beneath her wing” all through the manufacturing.
“Jamie confirmed up with such an infectious character that set the tone for the entire day,” Lohan stated. “I used to be so nervous to do my first kiss on digital camera, so she talked to me in my trailer and made it humorous in order that I wouldn’t stress about it.”
These aren’t the one unique Freaky Friday stars right down to reprise their roles. Preserve scrolling for all the pieces to know concerning the movie’s sequel to date:
Will There Be a ‘Freaky Friday 2’?
“Disney confirmed {that a} sequel was in improvement, with Elyse Hollander writing the screenplay, and Curtis and Lohan in talks to return,” The New York Occasions reported in Could 2023 when celebrating the film’s 20-year anniversary.
Earlier than the official affirmation, Curtis led the cost for one more film.
“Let me be the grandma, let me be the outdated grandma who switches locations, so then Lindsay will get to be the attractive grandma who’s nonetheless pleased with Mark Harmon in all of the methods you’ll be pleased with Mark Harmon,” she shared on The View in October 2022. “I wish to see Lindsay be the recent grandma, and I wish to see me attempt to cope with toddlers at this time. I need to be a helicopter guardian in at this time’s world.”
Who Is Starring in ‘Freaky Friday 2’?
Lohan and Curtis are each set to reprise their roles as Anna and Tess, respectively.
Will Pink Slip Return for ‘Freaky Friday 2’?
Lohan’s character Anna had a band referred to as Pink Slip within the first movie — different members included Christina Vidal (Maddie) and Haley Hudson (Peg) — which was answerable for some iconic 2000s hit songs, together with “Final” and “Take Me Away.”
Andrew Gunn, the movie’s producer, let it slip in a September 2023 interview with Cosmopolitan that they could simply be getting the band again collectively for the sequel.
“We obtained a draft of a script for the sequel proper earlier than the writers’ strike, and it was actually good,” he gushed. “A author got here up with probably the most sensible thought. It makes use of music and the band in a good way.”