Lindsay Lohan & Jamie Lee Curtis Ready to Switch Bodies Again for ‘Freaky Friday 2’
Let the body-swapping commence! Disney is reportedly working on a sequel to the 2003 film Freaky Friday starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Both stars have expressed interest in another movie, reprising their roles as mother and daughter.
The original movie was based on the 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers (we can’t forget to mention the 1976 film starring a young Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris) and followed a mother and daughter who don’t get along but one day wake up to find that they’ve switched bodies. They must figure out how to live in each other’s worlds and find out how to change back. Of course, things go awry but they learn more about each other and find ways to see things from the other’s point of view.
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Curtis admitted that she kept getting questions about a potential Freaky Friday sequel while promoting Halloween Ends. She shared, “Something really touched a chord. When I came back, I called my friends at Disney and said, ‘It feels like there’s a movie to be made.'” Lohan has also confirmed that she would love to do another film with Curtis and said, “Jamie and I are both open to that, so we’re leaving it in the hands that be. We would only make something that people would absolutely adore.”
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Even though Lohan was out of the spotlight for a while, the two actors remained friends over the years. Curtis revealed one of her favorite scenes from the film and how she always knows if a text is from Lohan.
She said, “My strongest memory is the scene where the two of us are in the car eating French fries. Now, if I get a text out of the blue, ‘Hey, Jamie, it’s Linds,’ I say, ‘Prove it. What was the song we were trying to learn the rap to during Freaky Friday?’ If she answers Justin Timberlake’s ‘Like I Love You,’ then I know it’s Lindsay Lohan.”
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No word yet on a potential plot or other cast members but Elyse Hollander is writing the sequel’s script. Fans should get excited because as Lohan said, they only want to make a film if they know that fans would love it. Will you watch a sequel to Freaky Friday?
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