Freaky Friday 2 [Disney - 20??]

20 après, une suite de Freaky Friday : Dans la peau de ma mère est en préparation. Jamie Lee Curtis et Lindsay Lohan devraient y reprendre leur rôle respectif.

The New York Times a écrit:

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan Talk ‘Freaky Friday’ at 20

The stars of the 2003 comedy still keep in touch and are in talks for a sequel, which Disney says is in the works.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in “Freaky Friday.” Curtis was a late addition to the cast. Disney

It has been 20 years since Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, playing a mother and daughter forever at odds, magically swapped bodies in Disney’s “Freaky Friday,” the Mark Waters remake of the 1976 comedy. Before restoring balance, the two are forced to see the world through each other’s eyes as they get caught up in wedding prep and high school drama. This version left an impression on a generation of millennials who grew up on a steady diet of Lohan films, contemplating bleached hair streaks and chipped nail polish.

Now Curtis’s two children are happily married and Lohan is pregnant with her first, but the actors have remained in touch. On separate calls — Curtis from Los Angeles and Lohan from Dubai — they discussed the transformative experience of “Freaky Friday” and what it would mean to revisit their characters today. Which isn’t far-fetched: Disney confirmed that a sequel was in development, with Elyse Hollander writing the screenplay, and Curtis and Lohan in talks to return.

These are edited excerpts from our interviews.

Lohan and Curtis in the 2003 comedy. “Our relationship was very easy,” Curtis said. Disney

Jamie, on the heels of your Oscar win for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” what’s been memorable about revisiting this role?

JAMIE LEE CURTIS : I’ve been in genre movies for a long time, but the only time in my life where someone mentioned an Oscar was in the New York Times review of “Freaky Friday.” For a girl who was in horror movies and body comedies, it was shocking. Now, all these years later, the skinny gold person lives in my house.

LINDSAY LOHAN : When you get to work with such great actors, it really affects your performance. You immediately play better off each other.

Let’s go back to 2003. What did this movie mean at that point in your career?

LOHAN : As an 11-year-old, “The Parent Trap” [1998] felt so big to me. I threw myself into everything: accents, green screens, playing two people. So I felt comfortable after that. “Freaky Friday” felt different because I was going through all of the phases of a 16-year-old [but playing a character who was a year younger]. This was the era of Avril Lavigne and punk, and I wanted to experience it. We did white stripes in my hair. I put [the colorist] Tracy Cunningham through hell because I took my nice red hair and just bleached it.

CURTIS : I was in the middle of a book tour when my agent called. An actress had been involved in the movie and chose not to do it; I was a replacement part. That was Thursday. I read the script on Friday, flew home on Saturday, had my hair dyed red Sunday, and was working Monday — with a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old at home, playing a 15-year-old. Had I had all the time in the world to prepare, I don’t think it would’ve been so good. I just had to be in my body. I was also newly sober and I was able to have a community within the movie-work world. That was a big deal for me.

When did you two first meet?

CURTIS : We met in an office, did the read-through, and it was game on in a big way. I had to let go of every control mechanism and just let it fly. Lindsay was as fluid as I was. If you look at “The Parent Trap,” she has a facility as an actor that is really impressive. It was a big job. It was a big production. And our relationship was very easy.

LOHAN : Jamie showed up with such an infectious personality that set the tone for the whole day. She immediately took me under her wing. I was so nervous to do my first kiss on camera, so she talked to me in my trailer and made it funny so that I wouldn’t stress about it.

How did you step into your characters after the switch?

CURTIS : The first day, we shot the scene where we pull up to the school. I’m the teenager and I’m completely flummoxed because this hot guy [played by Chad Michael Murray] is walking over. My body freezes up. Mark came up to me the next day and said, “My editor is wondering if the performance is a little big.” I looked at him and said, “My instinct is all I have to go with. If you don’t like what I’m doing, fire me. I will regret dyeing my hair red, and other than that, it will be fine. But this is what I’m going to do.” Years later, I was at the Aero Theater [in Santa Monica] and the editor, who was sitting in front of us, said, “By the way, I was so wrong.”

LOHAN : One big thing was slowing down my speech. I would tell Jamie, “Remind me if I’m going too fast.” And she would say, “Should I do this more slang?” We were feeling it on a daily basis.

“I was so nervous to do my first kiss on camera,” Lohan recalled, and Curtis helped ease her anxiety. Disney

What do you remember about working together?

CURTIS : My strongest memory is the scene where the two of us are in the car eating French fries. Now, if I get a text out of the blue, “Hey, Jamie, it’s Linds,” I say, “Prove it. What was the song we were trying to learn the rap to during ‘Freaky Friday’?” If she answers Justin Timberlake’s “Like I Love You,” then I know it’s Lindsay Lohan.

LOHAN : Now that you’ve told everyone, we can’t do that anymore. I remember we wanted fresh French fries, and she kept taking all of the good ones.

CURTIS: We were isolated for three hours together, just sitting in a car playing music.

LOHAN : I think if you put the song on, I would know it right away.

Jamie, you’re a mother. Lindsay, you’re about to be one. What did this movie teach you about parenting?

LOHAN To have more patience. You want to let them explore and live the way they need to live — with boundaries. I’m not there. I’m getting there. In a year, come back to me and ask me what it’s like. And then in 16 years.

CURTIS : Suspend the judgment, open the ear, listen more. Also, as a parent, we’re sizing up all the time: shoes, clothes, foods. It’s all future thought. My lesson from “Freaky Friday” was to be where your feet are.

This movie has endured over the last two decades. How do you feel about a sequel?

CURTIS : As I went around the world with “Halloween Ends,” people wanted to know if there was going to be another “Freaky Friday.” Something really touched a chord. When I came back, I called my friends at Disney and said, “It feels like there’s a movie to be made.”

LOHAN : Jamie and I are both open to that, so we’re leaving it in the hands that be. We would only make something that people would absolutely adore.

J'adore le 1 et de toute façon tout ce qui peut relancer la carrière de Lindsay Lohan est la bienvenue pour moi donc je suis content de cette suite

Pareil!
J’ai toujours beaucoup aimé Lindsay Lohan et je trouve qu’elle a beaucoup de talent surtout dans ses films passés inaperçus (Bobby, Georgia Rule ou encore The Canyons).
Sans compter bien évidement les classiques Parent trap, Life-Size, Mean Girls, COATDQ etc…

Espérons simplement que cette suite sera digne du premier film et qu’ils ne nous serviront pas un désastre tel que Life-Size 2. D’ailleurs heureusement, que Lindsay Lohan n’apparaisse pas dans le film (alors qu’elle a failli y participer).

Well a écrit:

Sans compter bien évidement les classiques Disney Parent trap, Life-Size, Mean Girls, COATDQ etc…

Mean Girls n'est pas un film de disney, mais de Paramount

Je sais! J'avais ajouté Disney à la fin sans me relire.. Merci pour la correction.

Jamie Lee Curtis et Lindsay Lohan réunies le temps d'une photo.

Jamie Lee Curtis a écrit:

Too late. YOU GREW UP and SO BEAUTIFULLY! Well, it's Friday, and the strike is over so hopefully, we can switch places again in the near future!

Le film sera réalisé par Nisha Ganatra.

The Hollywood Reporter a écrit:

‘Freaky Friday 2’ Is a Go With ‘Welcome to Chippendales’ Director (Exclusive)

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are in talks to star in the Disney feature for filmmaker Nisha Ganatra, with cameras hoping to roll this summer.

Disney is getting ready to get its freaky on one more time.

The studio has tapped Nisha Ganatra, who most recently helmed episodes of Hulu miniseries Welcome to Chippendales, to direct a sequel to its 2003 family comedy Freaky Friday, giving the long-promised project momentum and putting it on track for a summer shoot in Los Angeles.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, who starred in the original, are in negotiations to reprise their roles as the mother and daughter combo who find themselves switching bodies and lives.

Curtis and Lohan have talked of their hopes for a sequel for several years now, but it’s only been in recent weeks that talks began in earnest. On Friday, Curtis posted a photo of herself with Lohan on Instagram.

Andrew Gunn, who produced the 2003 movie, is producing along with former Disney exec Kristin Burr. It is unclear whether the feature will be released theatrically or debut on Disney+.

Disney has created a cottage industry with Freaky Friday, which includes several movies as well as a Broadway production. The franchise is based on the 1972 children’s book by Mary Rogers and the original adaptation, released in 1976, starred Barbara Harris as the mother and Jodie Foster as the daughter. Each installment tried to bring the core concept of living life in another person’s shoes into modern teen settings. Lohan is no longer a teen and the new script, by Jordan Weiss, is said to bring a multigenerational approach to the story.

Curtis is, one some levels, professionally hotter than ever, coming off an Oscar win for last year’s sensation Everything Everywhere All at Once and the recent Halloween trilogy reboot.

Lohan is in the midst of a comeback, having starred in a couple of popular Netflix romantic comedies, including this year’s Irish Wish.

Ganatra is known for bringing a light touch to her series work, which spans episodes of And Just Like That to Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Her feature work includes Late Night, the Mindy Kaling-Emma Thompson comedy set in the late night talk show world, and The High Note, the romantic drama set in the music arena that starred Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross.