Curiosity gets the best of Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in the first official teaser trailer for Freakier Friday. Reprising their roles as Tess and Anna Coleman, respectively, the pair visit a psychic medium (Vanessa Bayer) who eerily notes that their lifelines suggest they’ve “walked in each other’s path” once before — and that they’re likely to do it again, but this time, with a twist. And sure enough, another body swap ensues.
After a restless night while a thunderstorm raged outside, Tess and Anna wake up not as themselves, but as two 14-year-old girls, Harper and Lily. Harper (Julia Butters) is Anna’s daughter, while Lily (Sophia Hammons) is the daughter of Anna’s fiancé, Eric Davis, a British restaurateur. Anna and Harper trade places, leaving Tess and Lily connected. “My face looks like a Birkin bag that’s been left out in the sun to rot,” Lily cries via Tess.
In theaters Friday, Aug. 8, Freakier Friday builds on the premise of 2003’s Freaky Friday. Still, the trailer doesn’t give away too much about how the sequel will execute its new plot. But it does preview Anna and Pink Slip returning to the stage more than 20 years after Lohan cut the all-time great fictional hit “Ultimate” for the original film. And, of course, the trailer also features a leather-wearing Chad Michael Murray riding a motorcycle.
The film also stars Manny Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Rosalind Chao, and Mark Harmon. “Jamie and I, even at the table read, we were just smiling so big,” Lohan said on Fallon last year. “I don’t think we were acting well because we were so happy. But, the movie is funny. It’s really funny.”
“Because everybody struggles with that conundrum of adulthood and youth. We all judge both sides really harshly. It’s that old adage of, ‘Walk a mile in my shoes,’” Curtis told Rolling Stone in 2022. “Freaky Friday is one of those great examples of, you’re challenging somebody because they make you angry because of their limitations. And then you walk in their shoes and recognize that, in fact, all of those restrictions are there for a reason.”
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