Lindsay Lohan has opened up about the “fantastic” experience she’s having on the set of Freaky Friday 2 alongside her co-star and “best friend,” Jamie Lee Curtis.
The couple delighted fans with the news that they had officially started filming the long-awaited sequel on Monday, posting photos and videos from the film’s set.
Although details about the plot are still being kept under wraps, Lindsay, 37, confirmed to Good Morning America that her character, Anna Coleman, will have a daughter in the new film and revealed that she had to take guitar lessons to get into the character.
“Well, I can’t say much, but I’m taking guitar lessons and I have a daughter in the movie,” he said.
“It’s going to be a really strange Friday. Much stranger than you expect.”
Lindsay Lohan has confirmed that her character, Anna Coleman, will have a daughter in Freaky Friday 2
Lindsay, 37, and Jamie Lee Curtis, 65, delighted fans with the news that they had officially started filming the long-awaited sequel on Monday.
One thing the Mean Girls star has enjoyed most is having the opportunity to work with her on-screen mother Jamie, 65, once again.
“It’s fantastic,” he said. ‘We all had a lot of fun. It’s great to have that… you always want to have a good time.
‘It’s just a lot of love, a lot of fun, a lot of laughter. It is a great experience.’
She continued: ‘Jamie and I have kept in touch over the years. They always say that when you have a best friend, or someone you’re very close to, and you don’t get to see them for years and years, but when you see them again, it’s like you’ve never been apart.
“I think always, women supporting women is an amazing thing.”
The stars are reprising their iconic mother-daughter roles from the 2003 film, 21 years after the original film became a family classic.
Her first photos from the set of Walt Disney Studios even gave a subtle nod to the comedy’s premise: a body swap between mother and daughter.
Jamie is seen sticking her tongue out as she throws the rock and roll sign as Lindsay sits upright and smiles sweetly at the camera.
The study he captioned the photo: ‘The Colemans are back and will hit theaters in 2025! The Freaky Friday sequel is now in production!’
Fans flocked to the comments section to express their excitement, with one X user writing, “This is the most iconic reunion ever.”
Another chimed in: “I need Chad Michael Murray back.”
In Freaky Friday, a remake of the 1976 film starring Jodie Foster, the pair play psychiatrist mother Tess and her high school rocker daughter Anna, who end up swapping bodies.
Lindsay joked: “It’s going to be a really strange Friday.” Much stranger than you’d expect’
Although Disney has yet to share details about the sequel’s plot, Lindsay took to Instagram to share a look behind the scenes on filming.
One video showed the camera panning from a photographer to the Parent Trap star and the Halloween actress posing back to back for photos, sticking their heads out of their trailers and sharing a sweet moment while sitting on the trailer steps.
She captioned the clip: ‘We’re back!’
Jamie reposted the image of her and her daughter on screen on her Instagram, captioning the shot: ‘WE’RE STAYING because the Colemans are getting FREAKY AGAIN!’
To make sure fans couldn’t miss the news, he also shared it on his Instagram Story, writing: ‘Start! Get crazy!’
In March, Lindsay told People that the Freaky Friday sequel was “in the works” and that she was “excited to work with Jamie again and see how far we can take it.”
“Overall, we talk almost every other day, so I think we’re going to have a lot of fun with this,” he said.
In Freaky Friday, which was a remake of the 1976 film starring Jodie Foster, Jamie and Lindsay play straight psychiatrist mom Tess and high school rocker daughter Anna, respectively, who end up swapping bodies after a heated fight. .
The film also starred Mark Harmon as Tess’s fiancé and Chad Michael Murray as Anna’s boyfriend, Jake.
Lindsay gushed: ‘It’s fantastic. We all had a lot of fun. It’s great to have that… you always want to have a good time’
The stars are reprising their iconic mother-daughter roles 21 years after the remake became a family classic.
And in honor of the film’s 20th anniversary, the co-stars spoke with The New York Times about their “easy” friendship.
“We met in an office, we did the reading and everything started in a big way. I had to let go of all the control mechanisms and just let it fly,” Jamie recalled. ‘Lindsay was as fluid as I was. If you watch The Parent Trap, she has an ease as an actress that is really impressive. It was a great job. It was a great production. And our relationship was very easy.”
He added that the fandom started asking when they could expect a second movie.
“As I was traveling the world with Halloween, people wanted to know if there would be another Freaky Friday,” Jamie told the outlet. ‘Something really struck a chord. When I got back, I called my friends at Disney and said, “It looks like there’s a movie to be made.”