Lindsay Lohan starts work on biggest major studio role in 14 years: ‘Freaky Friday’ sequel
For the first time in more than a decade, audiences will be able to watch Lindsay Lohan take on a leading role in a major-studio, big-screen film.
The actress is starring in the sequel to 2003’s “Freaky Friday,” which just began shooting.
On Monday, Walt Disney Studios posted a photo of Lohan and co-star Jamie Lee Curtis outside of their trailers holding hands and beaming.
“The Colemans are back and coming to theaters in 2025! The sequel to Freaky Friday is now in production!” the post said.
In a nod to the plot of the mother-daughter body-swap comedy, Lohan, 37, sat outside Curtis’ trailer, and Curtis, 65, perched in front of Lohan’s.
The more-than-two-decade-old previous film grossed $160 million worldwide (off a $26 million budget) and was the 20th top movie of the year at the domestic box office.
In the story, based on Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel, a mom named Tess (Curtis) and her daughter, Anna (Lohan), are shocked to wake up in each other’s bodies. Antics ensue. Chad Michael Murray will also return as Jake.
Disney has provided only a vague description of the long-awaited follow-up:
“Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice.”
Lohan will definitely be hoping lightning strikes twice for her.
While the actress has acted in a number of TV shows and minor films in the past 11 years (“The Canyons,” “Among the Shadows”), her most recent starring role for a major studio was in 2007, in the Garry Marshall film “Georgia Rule.”
And Hollywood hasn’t given her a speaking part on the big screen since 2010 — in 20th Century Fox’s “Machete,” directed by Robert Rodriguez.
Lohan appeared in two recent (and awful) romantic comedies for Netflix, “Irish Wish” and “Falling for Christmas.” And she made a small cameo earlier this year in Paramount’s “Mean Girls,” the remake of the 2004 teen classic she starred in, among other small projects.
Returning to Disney, which also produced her debut movie, “The Parent Trap,” is a major step for the actress, who’s struggled with comebacks since her dramatic days as a gossip column fixture.
