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    Jodie Foster in 'Freaky Friday' and in 2025. Credit score:

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    Jodie Foster remembers her historical past — which is greater than AI can say.

    The long-lasting star of such American classics as Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, and the unique Freaky Friday lately revealed she was shocked to study that in style AI language mannequin ChatGPT doesn't appear to know that it was she who starred within the first iteration of that final franchise.

    AI doesn't appear to know that the 1976 unique exists in any respect.

    "You recognize who forgets that I used to be the unique Annabel in Freaky Friday?" Foster shared in a latest interview with Variety. "AI."

    The star of the upcoming thriller A Personal Life defined that "In case you go on to ChatGPT, or any of these issues, and also you say, like, 'Hey, what are the Freaky Friday motion pictures?' They are saying there was an unique, which is the 'unique' with Jamie Lee Curtis, after which there's the second that simply got here out. They usually don't point out me!"

    'Freaky Friday' director says he wanted to be involved in sequel but 'was not invited' Director Mark Waters attends the premiere of Netflix's He's All That at Nueuhouse in Los Angeles, California on August 25, 2021; Jamie Lee Curtis as Tess Coleman Lindsay Lohan as Anna Coleman in Disney's FREAKIER FRIDAY Jodie Foster forgets which network she's on during live interview: 'It's the same letters!' Jodie Foster on The TODAY Show

    Your entire Freaky Friday cinematic universe owes its existence to a youngsters's guide of the identical title written by Mary Rodgers and revealed in 1972. The story adopted younger Annabel Andrews, who covets the liberty she believes solely her mom Ellen possesses. When Ellen unintentionally causes them to swap our bodies, Annabel regularly comes to grasp simply how a lot duty maturity is saddled with, and the way comparatively straightforward she really has it as a child.

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    Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris in 'Freaky Friday'.

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    Launched in 1976, the primary Freaky Friday solid Foster, already a star because of roles within the Martin Scorsese movies Taxi Driver and Alice Doesn't Dwell Right here Anymore, as Annabel and Barbara Harris as Ellen. The movie was successful, grossing over $25 million ($145 million adjusted for inflation) on a $5 million finances.

    However in response to AI, it doesn't even exist. "AI has no recollection of the '70s," Foster snarked.

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    Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in 'Freaky Friday'.

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    Almost 30 years after its launch, Freaky Friday was remade by Imply Ladies director Mark Waters, casting Lindsay Lohan within the position impressed by Foster's, and Jamie Lee Curtis within the position impressed by Harris' character.

    Final April, Nisha Ganatra, director of the sequel to that movie, Freakier Friday, informed Leisure Weekly that she "begged" Foster to make a cameo within the movie. However Foster declined, and Ganatra "by no means came upon why," despite the fact that she admitted, "we tried all the pieces."

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