Titles primarily based on beloved YA tales and nostalgia are having a serious second this summer season. New-ish entries like The Summer season I Turned Fairly have taken root in popular culture, whereas traditional continuations, like Freakier Friday, are as in style as ever on the 2025 film schedule. After all, one key component to all this are swoon-worthy stars. And heartthrob vet, Chad Michael Murray, is continuous to make hearts flutter in Freakier Friday. Nonetheless, he additionally did simply that once more by complimenting his A Cinderella Story co-star, Hilary Duff.
Chad Michael Murray reminisced about his previous roles with Folks as he and different Freaky Friday OGs hyped the freak-quel. Every little thing from Gilmore Women to One Tree Hill and A Cinderella Story was coated. When he obtained to the fairy story adaptation, he highlighted how fantastic his co-star was and nonetheless is. The Austin Ames actor even went so far as to say how particular her presence continues to be for the reason that time he met her, by saying:
Hilary’s superior. In case you’ve ever met Hilary or in case you’ve ever seen her even strolling down the road, she glows. She has an aura that she will be able to stroll right into a room, and I simply go proper to her. She simply has this magnetic presence, and she will be able to gentle up a room, and she or he does that so nicely, and she or he’s been doing it so nicely.
The entire assertion simply makes me need to dive into an early 2000s Chad Michael Murray marathon. He’s really been part of probably the most iconic hits — One Tree Hill, Gilmore Women, Freaky Friday, A Cinderella Story, I might go on. So, for him to talk this extremely of Duff after working with so many different massive celebs proves that she actually should be as cool as she appears.
Although he’s already pitched a reboot for A Cinderella Story, plainly he’d love one other likelihood to work with the How I Met Your Father actress. Murray shared that whereas they have been each younger, he obtained together with everybody hooked up to Duff. He additionally attributed it as a cause for her longevity within the enterprise, as he mentioned:
That is why she’s been so profitable for therefore a few years. She was superior and I simply keep in mind her and her workforce and everyone, like, her instructor, they have been so cool, so good. Everyone was one of the best. Her mother, like the entire workforce, everyone I obtained together with over there. And we’re simply two children having enjoyable, making an enormous film.
I didn’t understand how a lot I’d take pleasure in this shock reward between the A Cinderella Story co-stars. Nonetheless, contemplating I used to be part of the unique audience for Hilary Duff again then, having assumptions considerably confirmed by somebody who labored very intently along with her means loads. Plus, on high of all that, Murray continues to be a strong instance of being a number one actor onscreen and off, making this reward even higher.
Personally, I’m hoping his persevering with feedback concerning the 2004 flick and Duff might assist reignite the redo for the Lizzie McGuire revival with Disney+. For now, that’s a full private pipe dream, however crazier issues have occurred! As for the Home of Wax actor, and except for the Disney staple’s current continuation, he’s been killing it on the Netflix hit Sullivan’s Crossing.
All of this leaves me questioning if the celebrities will align for the 2026 film calendar (or extra doubtless, past) to characteristic a brand new model of A Cinderella Story? We’ll have to attend and see, however within the meantime, Murray’s candy phrases about Duff fill my nostalgic teen coronary heart simply high quality.