Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan share new hope for ‘Freaky Friday’ sequel
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Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan say they’re prepared to star in a “Freaky Friday” sequel 20 years after their remake of the 1976 comedy delighted legions of millennials.
The pair spoke concerning the 2003 film’s legacy in a dialog revealed Wednesday by the New York Times, saying they’d gladly reprise their roles as a mother-daughter duo who magically switched our bodies and gained perspective into one another’s struggles.
“As I went around the globe with ‘Halloween Ends,’ individuals needed to know if there was going to be one other ‘Freaky Friday.’ One thing actually touched a chord,” Curtis, 64, stated about selling her 2022 slasher movie.
“After I got here again, I known as my pals at Disney and stated, ‘It appears like there’s a film to be made.’”
Curtis revealed her name to the Mouse Home in October.
“Properly, she’s gotta be a grandma. I imply, I gotta be a grandma,” Curtis brainstormed with “Entertainment Tonight” a couple of plot to a possible sequel.
“And simply watching Lindsay attempt to be a grandma makes me snicker, after which me being a grandma making an attempt to care for toddlers makes me snicker, so, I’m assuming it’ll be one thing, or it gained’t be something, we don’t even know but,” she added.
Lohan echoed that sentiment in November to Jimmy Fallon, telling the late-night host: “We’d each be into it.”
In February, Curtis as soon as once more sparked pleasure when she claimed a sequel “is going to happen.”
“Jamie and I are each open to that, so we’re leaving it within the fingers that be,” Lohan, 36, informed the Instances. “We’d solely make one thing that folks would completely adore.”
The actresses’ needs might come true as Disney has confirmed {that a} sequel is in improvement with Elyse Hollander (“It Was Romance”) writing the screenplay.
Curtis and Lohan are in talks to return, a Disney spokesperson confirmed to The Publish.
The Publish has contacted reps for Lohan and Curtis for remark.
Lohan and Curtis, who’ve remained pals over the previous 20 years, additionally recalled their reminiscences of their first assembly to the Instances.
“Jamie confirmed up with such an infectious character that set the tone for the entire day,” Lohan recounted.
“She instantly took me below her wing. I used to be so nervous to do my first kiss on digicam, so she talked to me in my trailer and made it humorous in order that I wouldn’t stress about it.”
For her half, Curtis revealed that she was solely solid after one other actress dropped out.
“I used to be in the course of a guide tour when my agent known as. An actress had been concerned within the film and selected to not do it; I used to be a substitute half,” she recalled.
“That was Thursday. I learn the script on Friday, flew house on Saturday, had my hair dyed purple Sunday, and was working Monday — with a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old at house, enjoying a 15-year-old.”
“Had I had on a regular basis on this planet to arrange, I don’t suppose it might’ve been so good. I simply needed to be in my physique,” Curtis admitted.
“I used to be additionally newly sober, and I used to be capable of have a neighborhood throughout the movie-work world,” she added. “That was an enormous deal for me.”
Lohan, in the meantime, is pregnant with her first child along with her husband, Bader Shammas.