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Jamie Lee Curtis Says Freaky Friday Cast Is "DOWN" for Sequel
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A sequel to Freaky Friday is person to becoming a reality. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan recently reflected connected their 2003 body-swap drama successful a New York Times interview for its 20th anniversary, with the outlet noting that Disney confirmed a Freaky Friday sequel starring the pair is in development, with Elyse Hollander writing the screenplay.
Curtis' rep confirmed to E! News that the Oscar victor is successful talks to instrumentality for the sequel.
And the 64-year-old credits the film's devoted fanbase, explaining that she's often asked astir a follow-up film.
"As I went astir the satellite with Halloween Ends, radical wanted to cognize if determination was going to beryllium another Freaky Friday," the Everything Everywhere All At Once star told the New York Times in the interrogation published connected May 10. "Something truly touched a chord. When I came back, I called my friends astatine Disney and said, ‘It feels similar there's a movie to beryllium made.'"
And her onscreen girl is conscionable arsenic game to instrumentality for more. "Jamie and I are some unfastened to that," Lohan, 36, added. "So we're leaving it successful the hands that be."
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This isn't the archetypal clip the Freaky Friday co-stars person expressed involvement successful a large surface reunion. Last December, Curtis told E! News' Chief Correspondent Keltie Knight that she and the Parent Trap star are "all down" for a sequel.
"It's not up to america close now," she pointed out, "but I deliberation everyone who needs to cognize knows, and intelligibly we are successful conversation."
But successful the 2 decades since Freaky Friday landed successful theaters, Curtis and Lohan—who played parent and girl Anna and Tess Coleman who swap bodies aft a fight—have remained close.
"Lindsay Lohan and I are friends," Curtis told fans successful a Mexico City halt on her Halloween Kills press tour successful October. "Lindsay Lohan and I text. She texted maine the different day, she's successful Ireland making a tv show."
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She further revealed that erstwhile receiving a substance from an chartless number, she likes to inquire a circumstantial question to corroborate the texter's identity. For the Mean Girls star, Curtis revealed it each has to bash with a specific infinitesimal portion filming Freaky Friday erstwhile the brace tried to larn the rap verse to a fashionable song.
"The reply is the Justin Timberlake song 'Like I Love You,'" she explained. "She and I were playing the tape, past we'd spell backmost and rewind, the 2 of america were penning the lyrics to that full rap successful the car in Freaky Friday."
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