“Freakier Friday” star Chad Michael Murray on channeling sexiness and the frenzy of returning to Jake’s bike (unique)

• Chad Michael Murray reprises his position from Freaky Friday within the new sequel.
• His character, Jake, will get pulled into the motion as a part of Freakier Friday's swaps.
• The actor praises costar Lindsay Lohan for one explicit comedic scene.

"The most important query is, what is horny?" Chad Michael Murray asks in a brand new cowl story interview with Leisure Weekly, philosophically pondering the artwork of revving up his hunky facet for his big-screen return as Jake in Freakier Friday. "I believe that reply is totally different for everybody, for each second, wherever you’re, environmentally. I believe horny simply means being comfy in your personal sneakers and getting up and feeling your self."

Talking of environments, Murray has discovered himself in an thrilling one, on the middle of an explosion of early aughts nostalgia, as he reprises the position of the motorcycle-riding, long-hair-wielding romantic curiosity of teenage Anna (Lindsay Lohan) from Disney's 2003 Freaky Friday movie.

And the 43-year-old needed to be sure that every thing was in place as he realized the right way to re-harness his horny facet — albeit differently, 22 years later — within the film. Oh, proper after he fastened his hair, that’s.

“The hair had been locked in place for your complete day. I used to be making an attempt to let it’s free and let it unfastened to get the helmet and do the entire thing, so it was like bedhead within the morning,” Murray remembers of capturing his grand return sequence on the streets of Hollywood, the place Jake, who now owns a file retailer, nonetheless rides his trusty bike about city.

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Whereas it felt proper stepping again into the position, "there was a variety of dialog for every thing that was in Jake’s world" because the first movie earlier than Murray signed on, he says.

"He was this type of liquid factor after we first began, and we have been making an attempt to mould it," he remembers of the character, who spent the primary portion of the 2003 movie because the love curiosity of Anna. However, after an historical spell switches her soul with that of her mom, Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis), Jake begins to develop a crush on Tess… or, no less than Tess' physique, that’s.

Quick-forward to the Nisha Ganatra-directed sequel, Jake unknowingly finds himself on the middle of a plot hatched by Anna's teenage daughter, Harper (who, thanks to a different spell, inhabits her mother's physique), and her soon-to-be-stepsister, Lily (now inhabited by the spirit of Tess), to reacquaint the previous highschool flames.

Whereas the ladies' intentions may be convoluted, Murray had a transparent imaginative and prescient for the way he needed to strategy Jake and imbue him with a comedic aptitude this time round.

"After I requested the query, 'The place has he been?' I all the time thought Jake had a room someplace, within the closet of his home, the place he’s acquired this glorious Tess shrine, and that he’s been in love along with her and he retains a pale picture of her in his pockets, however he nonetheless loves it and opens it up occasionally and touches it," Murray explains. "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."

Talking of fantasies, Lohan additionally creates a vivid one in a comical scene of tried seduction between Anna and Jake contained in the file retailer, which sees Lohan improvise, climb atop a desk, and provide up a extremely bodily dance in entrance of an unsuspecting Murray.

"There was a lot creativity flowing and everyone simply having enjoyable," Murray remembers of that scene. "I cherished watching Lindsay personal it. It was like, Oh, there she is."

Murray calls the scenes within the retailer "unbelievable" and felt the frenzy of the second hit him all of sudden on the set that day.

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"There was an actual second for all of us," he says, smiling on the reminiscence. "Simply the second of Jake and the bike and pulling up, you would simply see the 23-years-ago model of all of us that knew the movie, come to life."

Freakier Friday is in theaters Aug. 8.

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