The Freakier Friday launch is right here, and star Jamie Lee Curtis is celebrating this by getting nostalgic and mawkish about engaged on the film as audiences expertise it for the primary time. The Oscar winner shared some candy ideas about everybody concerned in making a brand new household comedy to rival the basic nature of the 2003 unique film.
Amidst the film incomes constructive buzz already (together with via our Freakier Friday evaluate) and being anticipated to win the weekend on the field workplace this weekend (by way of Field Workplace Professional), Jamie Lee Curtis wrote a notice to her followers on Instagram. Test it out:
We laughed, we cried, we laughed once more and tried to come back collectively as a bunch and inform a narrative that will span the check of time. It is a film about love and household and empathy and understanding and incontinence, arthritis and an enormous dose of GenZ angst. There’s music and mayhem and a whole lot of misunderstandings and errors, and it’s saturated in maternal love. I like our little group of freaks who made this for you and that tomorrow the world will get to see it.
Curtis’ beautiful notice was accompanied by a slew of pictures from the manufacturing of Freakier Friday. Have a look:
Wow, you may actually really feel the love right here relating to the making of Freakier Friday. The solid seems to be like they’d an absolute blast, and had been motivated by making a worthy sequel to the 2003 film that has been a part of a lot of folks’s lives because it got here out that will additionally converse to youthful generations. Curtis was truly the one who made the decision to Disney to get a sequel for Freakier Friday going after she heard a whole lot of followers inform her they wished to see it whereas selling her Halloween trilogy in recent times.
The sequel allowed her to reunite with Lindsay Lohan and a ton of the solid from the unique film, together with introducing new teen characters performed by Sophia Hammons and Julia Butters. The up-and-coming pair play new members to the Coleman household who aren’t getting alongside amidst Lohan’s Anna, who’s a single mother to Butters’ Harper, getting married to Hammons’ dad, Eric (performed by Manny Jacinto).
The household take care of extra body-swap shenanigans that has the teenager ladies discovering themselves within the our bodies of Curtis and Lohan and deciding to scheme to interrupt up their dad and mom. Through the film’s press tour, there’s been a whole lot of nostalgia concerned, from studying that there’s a Mum or dad Entice reunion to Lohan methodology dressing on the premiere to paying homage to one in all her unique costumes. Throughout our personal interview with returning solid member Chad Michael Murray, the actor advised us a shaggy dog story about filming the unique, too.
As followers begin to take pleasure in Freaker Friday this weekend, we’ll should see the way it stacks as much as different 2025 film releases. You possibly can see it in theaters now!