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‘Freaky Friday’ sequel places Lindsay Lohan again in highlight with 1st big-screen lead function in over 10 years

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FILE – Actress Jamie Lee Curtis (L) and actress Lindsay Lohan (R), stars of the brand new Disney movie “Freaky Friday,” pose as they arrive for the premiere of the film on the El Capitan theater Aug. 4, 2003, in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Carlo Alleg

Leisure/lindsay-lohan-joins-mean-girls-cast-musical-films-premiere-new-york” goal=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Lindsay Lohan goes to be again on the large display in a significant manner together with her Upcoming function within the “Freaky Friday” sequel.

This week, Lohan posed with co-star Jamie Lee Curtis to announce the venture. She shared the picture of the pair sitting in entrance of swapped trailers in line with the movie’s theme, writing within the caption, “The Colemans are again and coming to theaters in 2025! The sequel to Freaky Friday is now in manufacturing!”

The 2003 movie starred Lohan as Anna Coleman and Curtis as Tess Coleman, a mother-daughter duo who come to grasp one another higher following body-swap hijinks. 

“Freaky Friday 2” is about to open in theaters in 2025, and plot particulars are at present below wraps.

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Each Lohan and Curtis have teased the sequel over the previous couple of years.

In 2022, Curtis mentioned throughout an look on “The View,” “I’ve already written to Disney, my mates at Disney,” referring to her current function within the “Haunted Mansion” film.

She even had a pitch, explaining, “Let me be the grandma! Let me be the outdated grandma who switches locations. So then Lindsay will get to be the horny grandma, who continues to be pleased with Mark Harmon in all of the methods you’d be pleased with Mark Harmon. … And easily, I wish to see Lindsay be the recent grandma, and I wish to see me attempt to take care of toddlers at the moment. I wish to be a helicopter mum or dad in at the moment’s world as an outdated girl.”

In 2023, Lohan told Bustle, “I can’t say a lot, however we’re going to be doing it. I hope it’s sooner somewhat than later.”

FILE - Lindsay Lohan attends Clarins New Product Launch Party at Private Residence on March 15, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Olivia Wong/Getty Images)

FILE – Lindsay Lohan attends Clarins New Product Launch Occasion at Non-public Residence on March 15, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Olivia Wong/Getty Pictures)

The sequel is Lohan’s first vital theatrical function since 2013’s “The Canyons,” although she has appeared in a number of streaming initiatives since then after overcoming extremely publicized authorized and substance abuse issues in her youth and welcoming her first little one final 12 months.

Lohan had her breakthrough function within the 1998 Disney remake of “The Parent Trap,” taking part in twins Hallie and Annie to vital acclaim.

That was adopted by her look in “Freaky Friday” with Curtis and one other Disney movie, “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.”

In 2004, Lohan turned a mega star together with her function as Cady Heron in “Imply Ladies,” the beloved teen comedy.

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However together with her success got here the eye of paparazzi and a popularity as a celebration woman, and her work started to be affected. 

Manufacturing on her “Imply Ladies” follow-up in 2005, “Herbie: Absolutely Loaded,” was shut down for 3 days when Lohan was hospitalized for “exhaustion.”

Lohan was hospitalized once more in 2006 whereas filming “Georgia Rule” with Jane Fonda for being “overheated and exhausted,” in line with her consultant on the time. In a leaked letter, the pinnacle of the corporate producing “Georgia Rule” blasted Lohan over her “numerous late arrivals and absences from the set.”

A 12 months later, she entered drug rehab throughout the manufacturing of her movie “I Know Who Killed Me.”

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Simply two weeks after leaving rehab, Lohan crashed her Mercedes-Benz convertible and was arrested and charged with DUI, cocaine possession and driving on a suspended license.

The arrest marked the start of Lohan’s authorized woes and substance abuse issues. By 2012, she had made 20 courtroom appearances, accomplished six rehab stints and been incarcerated six instances.

Throughout that point, her profession suffered, suffering from field workplace and important failures. In 2013, she appeared in “Scary Film 5” in a cameo and performed a lead function within the erotic thriller “The Canyons,” which she additionally produced.

“The Canyons” marked her final vital function for over a decade.

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Lohan went on to make a handful of TV appearances on sequence like “Eastbound & Down” and “2 Broke Ladies” and a lead function within the British TV sequence “Sick Observe.”

She additionally dabbled in reality TV, first with an eight-episode sequence titled “Lindsay” on OWN in 2014, chronicling her sobriety journey and work to rebuild her life in spite of everything her authorized woes.

In 2019, she starred in “Lindsay Lohan’s Seaside Membership” for MTV, which documented the growth of her enterprise empire, managing a seashore membership in Mykonos, Greece.

Whereas not showing in any TV or movie initiatives, Lohan had gone overseas to concentrate on entrepreneurship, opening three seashore golf equipment in Greece between 2016 and 2018.

“There’s a enterprise facet to my life now, however I’m not in America, so nobody is aware of about it, which is sweet for me,” Lohan advised the New York Times in 2018, “as a result of I get to truly concentrate on the results of issues.”

The “Prairie Residence Companion” star moved to Dubai that very same 12 months, later telling Allure the transfer occurred “organically.”

“Dubai provides me that area to have my very own imaginative and prescient of what I have to do subsequent,” she mentioned.

Dubai can be the place she met her now-husband Bader Shammas, telling the outlet that after assembly him at a restaurant and speaking for hours “… then I mentioned to him, ‘I really feel such as you’re the individual I will be with ceaselessly.’ I would by no means been in a position to speak to somebody like this.”

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Shammas proposed to Lohan whereas filming her first vital comeback movie, the Netflix holiday romcom “Falling for Christmas.”

Forward of the movie’s Release, Lohan told Forbes she felt a renewed “pleasure” for showbiz.

“I don’t assume a lot in another way of it,” she mentioned of her views on Hollywood. “I believe perhaps as a result of it has been so lengthy that I’ve been on set, it was like a brand new pleasure that I haven’t felt in a very long time. All the things was refreshing to me. It was only a entire completely different manner of beginning, getting on set and making Movies once more that I actually missed that I didn’t understand how a lot I had missed.”

Lohan additionally government produced the movie and advised Forbes she was thrilled to be extra concerned within the filmmaking course of.

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“Once we began filming the film … I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, I even have extra of a say on what occurs.’ I at all times take note of all of the little particulars on set, so to have the ability to have that sort of function now was actually thrilling for me. Additionally, the modifying course of and all the tip after the film is being put collectively, I actually acquired to be totally concerned in that. I threw myself into it, and it’s a special function that I actually love, and I’m not trying to surrender anytime quickly. I’ve been on units my entire life, so I really feel like I’ve that to provide now, so I wish to use it,” she mentioned.

The 37-year-old married Shammas in 2022 and took a mini-break in 2023 when she welcomed her first little one, her son, Luai, in Dubai in July.

By 2024, she was again with a cameo function within the musical remake of her hit movie, “Imply Ladies,” and starring and government producing her second movie for Netflix, “Irish Want.”

In an interview with Bustle selling the movie, Lohan mirrored on her rockier years in Hollywood and the influence it had on her profession.

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“I really feel like a few of [my work] acquired overshadowed by paparazzi and all that sort of stuff after I was youthful, and that’s sort of annoying. I want that half didn’t occur,” she advised the outlet. “I really feel like that sort of took on a lifetime of its personal. So, that’s why I wished to vanish. I used to be like, ‘Except there’s no story right here, they’re not going to concentrate on simply my work.’”

The break in Dubai additionally noticed her concentrate on her private experiences and construct her household.

“I used to be like, ‘What if I by no means fall in love? What if this by no means occurs?’ And it took me simply taking time for me for all these doorways to open and the ‘yesses’ to come back – the issues I wished to say ‘sure’ to,” she advised the outlet.

Lohan additionally mentioned she’s involving her husband extra in her work, telling the Magazine, “He’s very intuitive and has an excellent understanding of how issues are going to work out in the long run. He can sort of foresee issues. So, I like getting his recommendation on every thing and having him be part of it. I simply really feel safer.”

With “Freaky Friday 2” totally in manufacturing, she additionally has a 3rd Netflix movie, “Our Little Secret” co-starring Kristin Chenoweth, Ian Harding and Tim Meadows, scheduled for launch later this 12 months.

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