Authentic Freaky Friday Star Jodie Foster Will Not Cameo in Freakier Friday

Millennials are eagerly anticipating the sequel to the Y2K era Disney comedy comedy Freaky Friday, which is about to reunite Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis because the body-swapping mother-daughter duo. Don’t maintain your breath for a Jodie Foster cameo, although: the star of the unique 1976 Freaky Friday, who didn’t seem within the remake, will even be giving Freakier Friday a cross. That’s not for lack of attempting, although.

“We begged her,” Freakier Friday director Nisha Ganatra instructed Entertainment Weekly. “She’s not going to do it.”

Ganatra added that she “by no means discovered why.”

As followers of the Lohan-Curtis household flick will recall, it didn’t in any respect lean into nostalgia for the 1976 unique, so including a Foster cameo right here might need felt misplaced. Ganatra instructed EW, “I believe we had been going to make her the principal on the faculty,” if unique featured participant Stephen Tobolowsky wasn’t capable of return as Mr. Bates, a memorable antagonist within the 2003 movie.

The director continued: “Actually, we tried every thing. We had been like, ‘What about this?’” however finally Foster turned them down. Nevertheless, newcomer Julia Butters, who performs the Lohan character’s daughter, pays homage to Foster with “enjoyable, amused, cool vibes” which can be “impressed by Jodie Foster’s tackle the character.”

To be trustworthy, forcing in a Foster cameo might need made Freakier Friday really feel overstuffed. Its story follows Anna (Lohan) on the verge of an enormous life-changing second, with Tess (Curtis) now a grandma to Anna’s Jodie Foster-ish teen. The movie facilities round Anna marrying a fellow single mother or father performed by Manny Jacinto (The Acolyte) and their households becoming a member of collectively in an ensemble piece—with, in fact, exponential ranges of chaos ensuing when extra body-swapping takes place.

Freakier Friday opens August 8.

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