Their mother-daughter dynamic carries off screen and we love to see it.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Freaky-Friday-2-Trailer-1.jpeg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”Freaky-Friday-2-Trailer-1″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan have been through a lot together \u2013 they even swapped bodies for a brief period in 2003. Now they are together again to promote the reboot of Freaky Friday<\/em>, said cult teen comedy where they played a mother and daughter who woke up in each other\u2019s bodies after an argument in a Chinese restaurant, suitably called Freakier Friday<\/em>.<\/p>\n A lot has happened since the first film was made more than 20 years ago. Curtis, for her part, is now an Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy-winning actress whose recent turns in Everything Everywhere All At Once, Knives Out<\/em> and The Last Showgirl<\/em> have made her one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood.<\/p>\n Lohan, an undisputed noughties icon, went on to star in the equally beloved teen comedy Mean Girls<\/em> the year after Freaky Friday<\/em> came out. The following years saw her release her own music and star in comedies like Herbie: Fully Loaded<\/em> and Just My Luck<\/em>, before stardom started to take its toll. The year 2006 marked the start of a decade of personal struggle for the Parent Trap<\/em> actress, who became a tabloid fixture with regular reports about her court appearances, relationships, stints in rehab and changes to her image \u2013 both physical and public. However, after signing a multi-picture deal with Netflix in 2022, Lohan has made a welcome comeback. She has fronted several feverishly popular films on the streaming platform including Falling for Christmas, Irish Wish<\/em> and Our Little Secret.<\/em> She has also just re-teamed with Disney on Hulu\u2019s new series Count My Lies<\/em>, an adaptation of the suspense thriller novel of the same name.<\/p>\n All the while, though, Curtis and Lohan have somehow managed to remain treasured friends. \u2018I\u2019ve known Lindsay since she was 15,\u2019 Curtis told Entertainment Weekl<\/em>y in their joint cover interview. \u2018That\u2019s just an extraordinary thing, to watch someone walk through life.\u2019<\/p>\n And it’s not just ‘that weird thing you do when you’re doing movie promotion’, Curtis insists – after commentary online suggested their bond seemed ‘fake’ – their connection runs much deeper.<\/p>\n In fact, it was Curtis who pushed for Freakier Friday<\/em> to come to life. \u2018In every country I went to [to promote her 2022 horror film Halloween Ends], the only consistent question I got was \u201cWhen are you making another Freaky Friday<\/em>?\u201d\u2019 It\u2019s a question she started to ask herself. Lohan was in Ireland filming Irish Wish<\/em> when she got the call up. \u2018I was like, \u201cYes, I\u2019m in, let\u2019s do it.\u201d It\u2019s not very often that you get to work with someone who\u2019s been such a big part of your life on a personal level,\u2019 the actress added.<\/p>\n \u2018That was exciting for me, to come back and do a big-screen film with a woman that I admire, that\u2019s part of my life off screen. To have that chance again, it doesn\u2019t happen much. I felt lucky to be able to do it.\u2019<\/p>\n The two stars might feel lucky in real life, but the characters they play on screen, Anna and Tess Coleman, are prone to a twist in fate. In the new film, we find them 22 years later and Tess and Anna are still navigating the challenges of their own mother-daughter relationship, but they have new relationships to contend with too. And so, as fate would have it, another body swap occurs, but this time Anna swaps with her own daughter and Tess swaps with her future step-granddaughter. Fans can rest assured, Freakier Friday will also see the return of Anna\u2019s high school beau Jake, played by Chad Michael Murray and her stepdad Ryan, played by Mark Harmon.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] However, the complexity of motherhood is something that has bonded Curtis and Lohan offscreen too. Curtis has two children, Ruby and Annie, who were 15 and five when the first film was being made. In July 2023, Lohan welcomed her first child, a son named Luai, with her husband Bader Shammas. It\u2019s no secret that they have bonded over these experiences.<\/p>\n \u2018Everything I do is [about] what\u2019s going to work for my family,\u2019 Lohan explained. \u2018If something works around that, it\u2019s meant to happen. If it doesn\u2019t work around that, it\u2019s a no-go.\u2019 Curtis recalls having the same priorities the first time round. \u2018If [Freaky Friday<\/em>] filmed outside California, I wouldn\u2019t have been in the movie. If it shot in Vancouver, I wouldn\u2019t have done it because I had kids. Balancing motherhood is a big part of our lives, but it\u2019s also a big part of the movie. It\u2019s the story of the movie.\u2019<\/p>\n If life imitates art, then, Lohan and Curtis\u2019s mother-daughter-esque bond in real life is hardly surprising, especially when you consider how long ago it was formed. Sophia Hammons, who is one of the new, younger stars in the sequel, joked that \u2018Jamie really did act like Lindsay\u2019s mom on set\u2019. Luckily, it didn\u2019t take long before she was invited into that familial dynamic. \u2018We\u2019re always getting kisses on the forehead or cheek. We slowly became part of that circle, too,\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n As members of the Freaky Friday<\/em> family, Curtis is right to say she and Lohan have watched each other walk through life. For their lives to be intertwined again \u2013 even if it\u2019s not in a supernatural way this time \u2013 in the reboot is something to behold, and something fans who grew up watching the film are bound to relish. \u2018I understand the depth of the woman you\u2019ve become,\u2019 Curtis told Lohan on set. \u2018I couldn\u2019t freaking do that at your age. I wouldn\u2019t have known how to do that. That speaks volumes to the woman she\u2019s become, the type of human she is, the type of mother, wife, friend.\u2019<\/p>\n If the moral of Freaky Friday<\/em> was for their characters to swap lives and learn a lesson in empathy, understanding and mutual respect, for Curtis and Lohan, it\u2019s paid dividends in real life.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photo: <\/b>Disney<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Their mother-daughter dynamic carries off screen and we love to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9131"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9145,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions\/9145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘That\u2019s just an extraordinary thing, to watch someone walk through life’ \u2013 Jamie Lee Curtis<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]