Freaky Friday Release Date: August 6, 2003 Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Chad Murray Directed by: Mark S. Waters
This is not your mother’s Freaky Friday. The original 1977 movie, starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, was a sweet, take-the-kids comedy based on the novel by Mary Rodgers. This remake by dark-comedy veteran Waters (The House of Yes) has Curtis playing an over-scheduled working mom and Lohan (The Parent Trap) playing her punk-rocker daughter. The two argue constantly and, on Friday the 13th, somehow wind up exchanging bodies. There was plenty of body-swapping going on behind the scenes as well. First, Kelly Osbourne, who was set to play Lohan’s friend, dropped out (she was replaced by Christina Vidal). Then, two weeks into the shoot, Annette Bening bailed on the leading role, as did Tom Selleck, who was to play her boyfriend. Curtis, who had just been the subject of a much-talked-about magazine article that showed her body in all its un–touched-up glory, was shocked when she got a call over the weekend to come in Monday morning—and begin shooting scenes as a very mature-looking 16-year-old.
HOT PANTS: The first words out of my mouth were, ‘Do I have to wear Frankie B.’s ?’ ” Curtis says of the hip-huggers. “Because I can tell you, this 44-year-old does not look good in Frankie B.’s. I don’t think any 44-year-old does.”
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