“Freaky Friday ”solid, then and now: See the unique body-swap comedy stars 22 years later

• Freaky Friday, directed by Mark Waters and starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, has confirmed surprisingly enduring since its 2003 launch.
• The body-swap comedy additionally starred Chad Michael Murray, Stephen Tobolowsky, Christina Vidal, and Rosalind Chao.
• A sequel, Freakier Friday, is now enjoying in theaters.

There's a motive Hollywood can't cease remaking Freaky Friday, which, in all of its iterations, finds a mom and daughter magically swapping our bodies and, because of this, lives. Don't all of us dream of dwelling for a day (or a lifetime) in any individual else's sneakers?

Look past Freaky Friday and also you'll discover dozens of variations on the premise, from 1988's Vice Versa and 2003's The Sizzling Chick to horror-tinged riffs like 2020's Freaky and final 12 months's It's What's Inside.

Now enjoying in theaters is Nisha Ganatra's Freakier Friday, a sequel to 2003's Freaky Friday, directed by Mark Waters and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. The pair's spin on the story has confirmed particularly enduring for millennials, and Leisure Weekly's Maureen Lee Lenker praised the sequel for the way it "recaptures and strengthens the magic" of the unique.

"What makes Freakier Friday so particular," she provides, "is that amid the laugh-out-loud humor and welcome fan service there's additionally a wonderful movie right here about parenting, coming-of-age, loneliness, grief, loss, and sacrifice."

The sequel not solely welcomes again Curtis and Lohan, but in addition Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, and Christina Vidal, amongst others. And should you're curious what the celebs have been as much as within the 22 years since, we've acquired you coated. Hold scrolling to see the solid of Freaky Friday, then and now.

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Lindsay Lohan as Anna Coleman

Lindsay Lohan led Freaky Friday as teenager Anna Coleman, an aspiring pop-punker who can't cease arguing along with her widowed mom, Tess (Curtis). After cracking open magical fortune cookies given to them at a Chinese language restaurant, Anna and Tess get up the following morning to find they've switched our bodies.

"I really feel like individuals are going to see the Lindsay that has that twinkle in her eye, is a bit mischievous, has a giant f—ing coronary heart, and makes you smile whereas watching her," Ganatra stated in EW's Freakier Friday cover story. "It's not simply the nostalgia of, 'It's Anna once more!' It's Lindsay doing what we love watching Lindsay do."

EW's critic made an analogous remark in her evaluation, lauding Lohan as "the movie’s coronary heart and soul" and noting how the "ease, maturity, and comedic timing of her youngster star years are, eventually, again in full pressure."

Lohan's profession has certainly had its fair proportion of setbacks. Following youngster stardom on The Mother or father Entice (1998), her profile skyrocketed with 2004's Imply Women, elevating her to the A-list whereas additionally making her a tabloid fixture. Her success led to starring roles in initiatives like Herbie: Absolutely Loaded (2005), Just My Luck (2006), and Georgia Rule (2007), to not point out a budding profession as a pop star.

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Round 2007, nonetheless, Lohan's profession was imperiled amid quite a lot of authorized points and court-mandated rehab stints to deal with her struggles with alcohol and medicines. Between 2007 and 2013, she was given jail time on quite a few events, however by no means spent greater than two weeks behind bars.

Scandal adopted Lohan all through the 2010s, however the actress continued to tackle main roles in movies resembling Liz & Dick (2012) and The Canyons (2013), in addition to visitor spots on sequence like Glee (2012) and 2 Broke Women (2014).

She additionally led two actuality reveals: OWN's Lindsay (2014) and MTV's Lindsay Lohan's Seashore Membership (2019),the latter following the employees at a seaside membership she'd helped open inMykonos, Greece. Each reveals solely lasted one season.

In 2021, she introduced her engagement to her present husband, financier Bader Shammas. The pair wed in 2022 and welcomed a toddler in 2023. Round this time, she signed a three-picture Netflix deal, which led to romantic comedies like Falling for Christmas (2022), Irish Want (2024), and Our Little Secret (2024).

Subsequent up for Lohan is a Hulu sequence adaptation of Sophie Stava's novel Rely My Lies.

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Jamie Lee Curtis as Tess Coleman

Jamie Lee Curtis was recent off the primary revival of the Halloween franchise — 1998's Halloween H20 and 2002's Halloween Resurrection — when she starred as widowed psychiatrist Tess Coleman in Freaky Friday.

It was Curtis who pushed for a Freaky Friday sequel, pitching the concept to each Lohan and Disney boss Bob Iger. "In each nation I went to [promote Halloween Ends], the one constant query I acquired was 'When are you making one other Freaky Friday?'" she advised EW for our Freakier Friday cowl story. "I referred to as [Lohan] on the street at one level and stated, 'That is all individuals are asking,' Clearly, there was an urge for food for this."

Curtis, the daughter of actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, has been a display icon for practically half a century, having made her function debut in John Carpenter's 1977 basic Halloween. She's performed Laurie Strode in six extra Halloween films within the years since.

Although she's at all times been revered — and gained Golden Globes in 1990 and 1995 for Something However Love and True Lies, respectively — Curtis has turn out to be one thing of an awards favourite in recent times.

In 2023, she gained the Academy Award for Greatest Supporting Actress for her flip within the vastly profitable Everything Everywhere All At Once, and has since gained an Emmy for her function as Donna Berzatto on FX hit The Bear (2023–current).

Curtis, who has been married to actor and filmmaker Christopher Visitor since 1984, will subsequent lead the upcoming Ella McCay, the most recent movie from James L. Brooks. She's additionally set to guide a Murder, She Wrote film adaptation.

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Chad Michael Murray as Jake

Chad Michael Murray charmed audiences within the unique Freaky Friday as Anna's crush, Jake, a job he returns to in Freakier Friday.

"Once I requested the query, 'The place has he been?' I at all times thought Jake had a room someplace, within the closet of his home, the place he’s acquired this excellent Tess shrine, and that he’s been in love along with her and he retains a pale photograph of her in his pockets, however he nonetheless loves it and opens it up once in a while and touches it," Murray advised EW forward of the sequel's launch. "That was all a part of the backstory that was going together with who Jake is on this fantasy world that he’s put himself in."

All that backstory paid off. EW's critic praised Murray's Freakier Friday efficiency for embodying the "identical oblivious appeal and golden retriever power that made him so profitable twenty years in the past."

Jake isn't the one hunk on Murray's lengthy resume. All through the 2000s, the actor smoldered on sequence like Gilmore Women (2000–2001), Dawson's Creek (2001–2002), and One Tree Hill (2003–2012), to not point out the movies A Cinderella Story (2004) and Home of Wax (2005).

Following his six-season stint on One Tree Hill, Murray starred on Chosen (2013–2014), Agent Carter (2015–2016), and Riverdale (2019), amongst different buzzy sequence. Since 2023, he's featured on the Robyn Carr adaptation Sullivan's Crossing (2023–current) on The CW.

Murrary shares three youngsters together with his spouse, Chosen actress Sarah Roemer.

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Mark Harmon as Ryan Volvo

Mark Harmon costarred in Freaky Friday because the hilariously-named Ryan Volvo, Tess' fiancé. He reprises the function in Freakier Friday, "ever steadfast and supportive of her whirling dervish persona," per EW's evaluation.

"It’s comfy with Jamie and at all times has been. I’ve recognized her since she was 15 or 16," Harmon stated of engaged on the franchise in a 2024 chat with The Hollywood Reporter. "Clearly, it’s a special story now, and but I take pleasure in time along with her. If you take a look at the lengthy type of life, you’re speaking about moments with folks and sharing them and being with folks you favored being with. That’s at all times been true about her for me, so I used to be happy to try this."

Harmon, a former school soccer star, has been a well-known face on TV and in movie because the Nineteen Seventies. We'll ceaselessly be obsessed together with his profitable flip because the shaggy Mr. Shoop within the 1987 comedy Summer School, however he's best-known as NCIS particular agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a job he performed on the CBS procedural from 2003 to 2021 (and recently reprised on NCIS: Origins).

The actor has been married to his spouse, actress Pam Dawber, since 1987. They share two sons.

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Stephen Tobolowsky as Mr. Elton Bates

Stephen Tobolowsky performed the monstrous Mr. Bates, Anna's English trainer and Tess' former classmate, in Freaky Friday. He reprises the function within the sequel.

In a current interview with the Dallas Morning Information, Tobolowsky opened up about his former academics who impressed Mr. Bates. "A number of academics at Kimball [High School]. My physics trainer, Melvin Moses. There’s a bit little bit of Mr. Bates in him. My algebra trainer. They each fancied themselves as form of humorous, however we had been at all times so terrified of them as a result of they had been so strict," he stated.

Tobolowsky is one among Hollywood's quintessential "that man" actors, to not point out a consummate storyteller. He even began a podcast, The Tobolowsky Files, by which he rhapsodizes about his highs and lows within the trade.

Of the actor's many, many movie roles, some highlights embody the unnerving Clayton Townley in Mississippi Burning (1988), Ned "The Head" Ryerson in Groundhog Day (1993), and the amnesiac Sammy Jankis in Christopher Nolan's breakout, Memento (2000).

He's additionally a pressure on the small display, with memorable activates Deadwood (2005–2006), Glee (2009–2011), Californication (2011–2014), and The Goldbergs (2014–2023). Most not too long ago, he performed a rabbi on the 2024 Netflix hit No one Needs This.

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Christina Vidal as Maddie

Puerto Rican actress Christina Vidal rocked out as Maddie, Anna's bandmate in Freaky Friday's Avril Lavigne-inspired band Pink Slip. Followers of the band — and there are lots of — can be thrilled to know that Pink Slip reunites in Freakier Friday.
"It’s nearly like no time handed," Vidal advised Billboard of reuniting with Lohan and costar/bandmate Haley Hudson. "After we first noticed one another was simply form of like, 'Oh man, I really feel like we simply did this'… I feel there’s a pure chemistry, too, with us. Like performing and simply, like, being pals, we at all times acquired alongside on set."

A toddler actor who debuted reverse Michael J. Fox in 1993's Life With Mikey, Vidal adopted Freaky Friday with visitor spots on widespread reveals like ER (2007), House (2009–2010), and Code Black (2015–2016).

Over the previous decade, the actress has landed main roles on CBS's Coaching Day sequence (2017), the Chris Pratt-starring The Terminal List (2022), and Primo (2023).

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Haley Hudson as Peg

Haley Hudson rounded out Pink Slip's trifecta of pop-punk powerhouses in Freaky Friday, and returns for an encore within the sequel.

Hudson, a gifted musician and singer, not too long ago began the band Hudson Rubin with Danny Rubin, who performs Pink Slip's bassist within the movies.

"We’re not a fictional band anymore, as a result of two of us truly grew to become an actual band," she advised Billboard. "We’re simply actually specializing in our music, they usually truly used one among our songs within the film, so we’re actually enthusiastic about that."

Freakier Friday can be Hudson's first onscreen appearing function in additional than a decade, although she appeared in a number of movies and sequence all through the 2000s and early 2010s. She starred within the found-footage movie Look (2007) and an accompanying sequence that aired on Showtime in 2010. She additionally appeared within the 2012 horror movie The Pact, in addition to its 2014 sequel.

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Harold Gould as Alan Coleman

5-time Emmy nominee Harold Gould was well-known for his runs on sitcoms like Rhoda (1974–1978) and The Golden Women (1985–1992) when he appeared in Freaky Friday as Anna's earthquake-fearing grandpa, Alan.

Gould's lengthy display profession started in earnest within the early Nineteen Sixties. He went on to function in additional than 300 TV reveals, in addition to films from acclaimed filmmakers like Billy Wilder (The Entrance Web page), Mel Brooks (Silent Film), Woody Allen (Love and Demise), George Roy Hill (The Sting), and Jonathan Demme (Beloved).

Freaky Friday was amongst his last display roles. Previous to his 2010 dying at age 86 from prostate most cancers, Gould lent his voice to movies like Brother Bear (2003) and Whisper of the Coronary heart (2010). He has additionally guested on episodes of Cold Case (2008) and Nip/Tuck (2010).

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Ryan Malgarini as Harry Coleman

Ryan Malgarini had barely hit double digits when he costarred in Freaky Friday as Anna's youthful brother Harry, a job he reprises within the sequel.

Waters praised Malgarini in a 2023 oral historical past of the movie from The Hollywood Reporter. "Ryan Malgarini was simply nice. He was simply so f—ing humorous. He simply regarded tremendous younger for his age," he stated. "It’s at all times a profit whenever you’re casting a child, the place you solid any individual who’s, like, 8 years previous to play a 6-year-old, so that you get that intelligence, however he nonetheless seems like a child."

Malgarini went on to costar in The right way to Eat Fried Worms (2006) and assist lead the CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried (2008–2010). He additionally guested on widespread sequence like Mike & Molly (2011), Bones (2013), Fresh Off the Boat (2015), and Mother (2018).

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Julie Gonzalo as Stacey Hinkhouse

In Freaky Friday, Julie Gonzalo performed the venemous Stacey Hinkhouse, Anna's one-time greatest good friend and present bully.

Gonzalo's loved a fruitful profession within the many years since Freaky Friday's launch, with notable activates Veronica Mars (2006–2007), Dallas (2012–2014), and Supergirl (2019–2021). In 2005, she reunited with Murray for A Cinderella Story, and in addition appeared in Dodgeball: An Underdog Story (2004) and Must Love Dogs (2005).

Lately, she's a daily on the Hallmark Channel, having starred in movies like Lower, Shade, Homicide (2022) and Completely satisfied Holidays from Cherry Lane (2024).

In 2022, Gonzalo gave start to a son, whom she shares along with her associate (and Hallmark Channel costar) Chris McNally.

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Willie Garson as Evan

Willie Garson introduced ample laughs in Freaky Friday as Evan, an excitable affected person of Curtis' Tess.

The prolific Garson appeared in dozens upon dozens of movies and sequence all through his 25-year profession, most notably because the witty and trendy Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City (1998–2004), And Just Like That (2021), and the franchise's 2008 and 2010 movies.

You might also acknowledge him as con man Mozzie on White Collar (2009–2014) and as Gerard Hirsch on Hawaii 5-0 (2015–2020).

In 2008, Garson adopted a 7-year-old youngster, Nathen. "Hear, I'm a narcissistic, entitled, spoiled actor, so my total life has been targeted on myself till the second I met Nathan," Garson advised PEOPLE in 2020. "After which it wasn't, and it's a greater life."

Garson died of pancreatic most cancers on Sept. 21, 2021, on the age of 57.

"You at all times had been the hardest and funniest and smartest particular person I’ve recognized," Nathen wrote in a tribute to his father on Instagram. "I’m glad you shared you’re love with me. I’ll always remember it or lose it."

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Rosalind Chao as Pei-Pei

Rosalind Chao helped set the occasions of Freaky Friday into movement, because it was a magic fortune cookie at her character's Chinese language restaurant that led to the physique swap.

Within the many years since its launch, nonetheless, many have characterised that ingredient of the story as culturally insensitive. Chao even addressed her preliminary trepidation to take the function in The Hollywood Reporter's oral historical past of the movie.

"I noticed the half, and at first I believed, 'Oh God, I don’t need to have you learnt, the entire Chinese language [thing].' I simply had emotions about it," she stated, "however then I at all times attempt to flip the script, and I believed, 'Wait, what am I speaking about?' I grew up in a Chinese language restaurant. My dad actually was that man… he had an accent, however he thought he had no accent."

For the remake, Ganatra advised EW she sought to deal with among the unique movie's "stereotypes that had been hurtful."

"I bear in mind watching it and feeling torn, largely concerning the Asian illustration, and in addition the soundtrack that was getting used [in the scenes at the restaurant]," she stated. "It was one thing I introduced up instantly once I had my first conferences with the producers. I had a second of the presentation that was like, 'problematic Asian illustration!'"

You gained't discover any magic fortune cookies in Freakier Friday, however you will notice the return of Chao's Pei-Pei.

As for Chao, she'd been appearing for many years earlier than showing in Freaky Friday, with activates Diff'hire Strokes (1981–1983), AfterMASH (1983–1985), and, most memorably, as botanist Keiko O'Brien on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991–1992) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999).

In recent times, she's performed key roles on two totally different Netflix sequence: Candy Tooth (2023–2024) and 3 Body Problem (2024).

Chao not too long ago celebrated an anniversary along with her husband, actor Simon Templeman.

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Lucille Soong as Pei-Pei's mom

Lucille Soong performed Pei-Pei's mom in Freaky Friday, and returns to the function in Freakier Friday.

Soong, a veteran actress with credit spanning again to the early Nineteen Sixties, appeared along with her Freaky Friday costar Chao within the 1993 hit The Joy Luck Club.

Following Freaky Friday, Soong loved memorable runs on Desperate Housewives (2004–2009) and as Grandma Huang on all six seasons of NBC's Contemporary Off the Boat (2015–2020).

The place can I watch Freaky Friday?

Freaky Friday is presently accessible to stream on Disney+.

Freakier Friday is now enjoying in theaters.

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