Lindsay Lohan confirms sequel to Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis

A sequel to ‘Freaky Friday’ is in the works. Lead actress Lindsay Lohan confirmed this in a radio interview. Rumors about a possible sequel to the 2003 film have been simmering for several years.

Jamie Lee Curtis is also back on board. “We’re both excited,” Lohan says. And further: “I don’t want to reveal too much yet.” So it is not clear how far production is.

Lohan and Curtis have spoken in the past about a possible sequel and that they are open to it. Curtis even has an idea of ​​what the film could look like: “Let me be the grandma who switches places with Lindsay so she becomes a sexy grandmother who is happy with Mark Harmon, as happy as you are with Mark Harmon. are”.

Based on a 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers, ‘Freaky Friday’ is about a mother and daughter whose bodies are switched by a magical Chinese fortune cookie. Curtis and Lohan formed the mother-daughter duo, with Harmon playing Curtis’ fiancée in the film.

The 2003 film, starring Lohan and Curtis, was the third film adaptation of the novel, following a 1976 film starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster and a 1995 television film starring Shelly Long and Gaby Hoffmann. Disney Channel last filmed “Freaky Friday” as a musical in 2018, starring Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Heidi Blickenstaff.

(cmu)