Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are sharing extra particulars about their Freaky Friday sequel and a few candy perception into who they’d swap our bodies with in actual life.
Throughout Disney’s D23 fan occasion showcase in Anaheim, Calif. on Aug. 9, followers bought the prospect to see the celebrities communicate concerning the sequel to the hit 2003 movie, as they revealed the title of the brand new film: Freakier Friday.
PEOPLE spoke completely to the pair on the occasion, the place the 2 stars revealed how their relationship has developed through the years, their emotions concerning the new film and who they’d commerce locations with if that they had the prospect for a Freak Friday-esque physique swap.
“Anybody? Possibly my child,” Lohan, 38, laughs when requested by PEOPLE who she would swap with for a day.
“Simply to see — as a result of he’s, so pure and simply so comfortable, simply to see life via his eyes, simply day-after-day. He’s simply this lovely bundle of pleasure. I can’t consider anything,” she continues of her son Luai Shammas, 1, whom she welcomed in 2023 along with her husband, Bader Shammas.
For her half, Curtis, 65, needs to expertise what it is wish to play basketball like an WNBA star.
“I wanna be Caitlin Clark for a day. I wanna play basketball like Caitlin Clark,” the actress says, including,
“She’s my fortunate quantity, 22.”
Lohan Curtis reprise their roles as Anna and Tess Coleman, the mother-daughter duo who magically switched our bodies within the 2003 movie, and elsewhere within the dialog with PEOPLE, the 2 actresses mentioned their ongoing friendship and the way it has developed since they made Freaky Friday.
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“I feel we’ve grown a lot nearer since then. Particularly on this film,” Lohan tells PEOPLE.
“Lindsay was 15 happening 16 once we made Freaky Friday. And it was a giant success. It was a giant success for each of us,” Curtis defined, including that the primary film was a pivotal second in each of their lives.
“And I simply really feel like since that point I’ve at all times tried to make it possible for she understood that I existed in a really possible way and that it wasn’t some pretend film, that we had been mates and that I cared about her. As a result of there are lots of arduous issues about being, being a younger actor within the glare and spin of this enterprise is terrible,” she continued.
Lohan says that whereas at 15 she “did not understand” the success as she was “so younger,” now she is older she will see its impression extra. “As I become older, seeing how a lot folks have cherished it and the way a lot it stays with folks, it’s in folks’s houses, that is while you understand what an impression it had on folks and the way a lot of successful it was,” she explains.
Curtis additionally says that moreover folks asking her about Halloween, “the one factor, any nation anyplace, whoever it’s,” needed to learn about was ” Are we making one other Freaky Friday?”
“So I known as Bob Iger and mentioned ‘Bob, however we must always make one other.’ It was time. And Lindsay is now mommy and Lindsay is sufficiently old to be the mother of a teen,” she says, including, ” I imply a younger, younger mother — however you are sufficiently old to be a mother, nevertheless it works.”
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“I actually assume on the finish of the day, this can be a love letter to moms and daughters,” Curtis provides of the brand new film, with Lohan sharing her ideas, too.
“It is so lovely to see the three generations on this. It is so lovely to see how Anna appears to Tess for recommendation. However then Tess nonetheless needs to sort of are available and provides out the recommendation. And Anna has develop into a little bit bit like Tess in a manner very a lot on this… which is what occurs in life. You at all times develop into a little bit bit like your mother,” she says.
On the night time, Lohan and Curtis took to the stage at D23 and revealed the identify of the sequel to the excited viewers.
“We now have a brand new title, however I do not know if we must always share it right here, I do not know,” Curtis mentioned.
“Come on Jamie, it is D23 these are the perfect followers on this planet!” Lohan responded, including that they may share it. After Curtis playfully checked her costar knew the title of the sequel, the pair then counted to 3 and shouted out the identify of the brand new film: “Freaker Friday!” to delighted cheers from the gang.
Additionally returning in Freakier Friday from the unique solid are Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao.
Along with some acquainted faces, the sequel will embrace new characters performed by Manny Jacinto, Julia Butters, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Sophia Hammons.
It’s directed by Nisha Ganatra, who has beforehand directed episodes of Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales in addition to 2019’s Late Night time starring Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson.
Disney confirmed the movie is ready to hit theaters in 2025.
