Lindsay Lohan on motherhood, acting again and the Freaky Friday sequel

It has been more than two decades that the comedy of the body balance that captured the complexities of mother-daughter relationships has become a worldwide success.

Friday more bizarre sees Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan meet in a suite that explores these same themes of a very different stage in life.

The film resumes with the character of Lohan, Anna, having a daughter to herself and dealing with the challenges to also take a daughter-in-law. The family dynamics become more bizarre because there is an exchange of a quadruple body.

During the European first of the Leicester Square film in London, Lindsay Lohan told the BBC that each part of it wanted to follow a follow-up to the beloved hit in 2003.

“Fans like the film and there is such a strong loyalty,” she explains. “It made people so happy and I like to make films that make people feel joy.

“So many things happen in the world now that it’s nice to do something that allows people to forget what’s going on.”

The film consolidates Lohan’s return to Hollywood – she was absent for a large part of the 2010s and brought her back to the big screen in 2022 with a fall for Christmas.

This is her first film with Disney in more than a decade, but it is probably not the last because she says that if fans like more bizarre Friday, they could expect the most bizarre consequences.

The star, who has become famous in the parents’ trap, tells me that she was not nervous at the idea of acting because she loves what she is doing “and I know that it is always seen in my work”.

She added that her return to the game was to find the right time, and the 39 -year -old man had a few years occupied after marrying the financier Bader Shammas in 2022 and wore a son a year later.

She says that being a parent gave her a new perspective on the mother-child relationship in the film and helped her to connect more.

“When you become a mom, your whole life changes and it is important to be able to balance work and to be a mother who is definitely a learning process.”

Lohan has been in the eyes of the public for almost three decades and has spent a turbulent time in their twenties – she has been arrested several times for various offenses and has spent time in detoxification cure on various occasions.

She tells the BBC that, looking back, she would tell her young person not to rush and to “slow down and breathe because everything comes”.

Curtis, who resumes her role as Lohan’s mother in the film, told me that the Freaky Friday suite did not look like a meeting with Lohan because “we have always been united”.

“I take my work seriously and when I am the mother or the eldest of a young actor, I take a big responsibility to make sure that they can always count on my friendship and my love,” she said.

“We were united away from her adolescence in the twenties and very recently, she led her baby to meet me in Los Angeles.”

The actor, who won an Oscar for the comedy of superheroes all everywhere in 2023, says that the themes of understanding and sympathy of the film are very important at the moment.

“Understanding is lacking in failure at the moment in the world and this film shows that if you can live the life of the other, you may find common ground with each other.”

In addition to being fun and silly, Curtis adds that the film tackles the theme of loss which “creates empathy because it is a universal feeling”.

The 66 -year -old said that it was his idea of continuing and she had recently contacted Disney to say that it was time to create it. She had to wait two decades because “we needed Lindsay to be old enough to have a 15 -year -old child in the film”.

Chad Michael Murray resumes his role as Heartthrob Jake, the newcomer and the newcomer Julia Butters, the girl on the screen of Lohan.

More broadly, Freaker Friday is part of a trend of announced and published consequences.

Last week, a follow -up of Bend It as Beckham was revealed and there is a lot of anticipation for the rest of Devil Wears Prada.

Friday Freaker was released on Friday August 8.

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