Jamie Lee Curtis; Lindsay Lohan.Photo: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic; Bryan Bedder/Getty Images
Jamie Lee Curtisis on board to return toFreaky Friday— and seemingly any movie that reunites her with her former body-swapping-daughter.
While attending theGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mysterypremiere in Los Angeles Monday night, the actress opened up to PEOPLE about the possibility of reuniting with her longtime friendLindsay Lohanon screen again.
“There would be nothing I would love more, honestly, than to be able to work with her again, share our time again, and now be able to share it at this age with both of us 20 years older, or whatever we are,” Curtis, 63, says.
Though Curtis is open to collaborating with Lohan on any project, she’s been specifically floating the idea of aFreaky Fridaysequel recently and told PEOPLE it’s more than just wishful thinking.
“We’re talking,” Curtis insists, when asked if there’s real weight to the concept of making a follow-up to Mark Waters' 2003 adaptation of Mary Rodgers' 1972 novel of the same name. “There’s a lot of good talk going on.”
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Curtis first pitched the idea ofFreaky Friday2during an appearance onThe Viewin October, saying she’d love to play an"old grandma" who switches bodieswith Lohan.
“So then Lindsay gets to be the sexy grandma, who is still happy withMark Harmonin all the ways you would be happy with Mark Harmon,” Curtis said. “And simply, I would like to see Lindsay be the hot grandma, and I would like to see me try to deal with toddlers today. I wanna be a helicopter parent in today’s world, as an old lady.”
Lohan, 36, supported the idea of doing a sequel during a November appearance onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
“We did speak about it, yeah,” she toldJimmy Fallon, recalling that she first heard about the concept while she was working on another project. “Let’s just take the fact that I was on set filming at the time, and Jamie Lee Curtis writes, and you just get excited and distracted immediately, so I had to bring myself down to Earth and be like, ‘I’m on set, I have to focus.’ Then she saidFreaky Friday 2, and I got more excited.”
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Despite playing a tense mother-daughter duo inFreaky Friday, Curtis told PEOPLE on Monday that she and Lohan have remained in touch since wrapping the Disney flick. “We’ve stayed close throughout her journeys, and she moved out of the country for a while,” Curtis shares. “We’ve never not been in contact.”
She added that Lohan is “so happy” where she is right now — living in Dubai,marriedand, to Curtis and many viewers' delight, finallyback on the screen.
“My little girl is all grown UP!” Curtiswrotein an Instagram post following the release of Lohan’s new movie,Falling for Christmas, earlier this month.
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery(2022).JOHN WILSON/NETFLIX
And as forGlass Onion— the sequel to the hit 2019 murder mysteryKnives Out, in which Curtis starred alongsideDaniel Craig,Chris Evans,Toni Colletteand Ana de Armas — despite showing up to the premiere, Curtis has been vocal about her envy over not appearing in the film.
“I’m NOT jealous. I’m not jealous. I’m not jealous. I’m not jealous. I’m not jealous. I’m not jealous. I AM jealous. I am jealous. I am jealous. I am jealous.I am jealous. I am jealous,” she wrote on Instagram earlier this month, alongside a photo of the sequel’s poster.
The film is scheduled to have a one-week limited theatrical release on Nov. 23, before its streaming release on Netflix Dec. 23.
source: people.com
