Jamie Lee Curtis & Lindsay Lohan Swap Bodies Again

The idea behind “Freaky Friday” is a fantastically fun film formula, following a mother and daughter who switch bodies one Friday, forcing them to find new respect and empathy for one another through the experience. The most successful interpretation of the story was the 2003 Mark Waters movie, starring Lindsay Lohan as teenager Anna Coleman and Jamie Lee Curtis as her mother Tess, a widowed psychiatrist planning her wedding to new beau Ryan (Mark Harmon). It’s a funny film with great performances from both Curtis and Lohan, who embrace the campier side of things and let the comedy run a bit wild. (Seriously, Curtis’s delivery of “I’m old!” has become meme legend for a reason.) 

It’s a tremendous amount of fun watching Curtis and Lohan pretend to be one another, and now we’re going to get a chance to see them do it all over again. Just as “Freaky Friday” examined the challenges of being a teenager and a middle-aged mom, the upcoming sequel “Freakier Friday” looks like it will give the girls a chance to re-examine their lives again now that they’re a little older and hopefully a little wiser. Curtis’s original pitch for the sequel proposed she should be the “hot grandma,” but how much of her pitch did they take into consideration? Check out the trailer and then let’s dive into all of the fabulous elements of this first look at “Freakier Friday.” 

This time, instead of just switching with one another and learning about how difficult it is to walk a mile in another woman’s shoes, we have a four-way Freaky Friday flip, with Curtis’s Tess and Lohan’s Anna switching bodies with Anna’s teenage daughter and future step-daughter. Anna’s daughter, Harper (Julia Butters), ends up in Anna’s body for a pretty standard mother-daughter switcheroo, but her fiancé’s daughter Lily (Sophia Hammons) ends up in Tess’s body and vice-versa, giving us a multi-generational body swap story for the ages. The always-amazing Manny Jacinto plays Lily’s dad and Anna’s fiancé, Eric. Mark Harmon and Chad Michael Murray are also reprising their roles from the original as Tess’s husband and Anna’s ex, respectively, rounding out the excellent main cast. 

Honestly, I love the idea of having Anna go through the same process she went through with her mother with her own daughter (even planning a marriage while flipped!), and having Tess along for the ride in a new way makes things even more interesting. There will be plenty of silly jokes about the basic facts of aging and the weirdness of being a teenager, just like the original, but hopefully it also shares the thing that made the original work: its sweet heart and empathy for both the old and young. 

“Freakier Friday” hits theaters nationwide on August 8, 2025.