NEED TO KNOW
- Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are back for Freakier Friday, a sequel to their 2003 comedy
- The director recently said they “begged” for a cameo from Jodie Foster, who starred in the 1976 original Freaky Friday movie
- Foster says she was too “busy” making a different movie to do the sequel appearance
Jodie Foster is explaining why she opted out of a cameo appearance in the new Freaky Friday sequel.
This summer, Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis return to the big screen for Freakier Friday, a followup to their 2003 body-swap comedy. Foster famously starred in Disney’s original 1976 version as a child star opposite Barbara Harris.
Freakier Friday director Nisha Ganatra told Entertainment Weekly in April 2025 that “we begged” Foster to make a cameo in the new movie but “she’s not going to do it.”
In an interview with Variety surrounding the Cannes Film Festival premiere of her French film Vie Privée, Foster, 62, explained why doesn’t pop up in the film.
“I was busy doing this movie,” she said, referring to Vie Privée. “But Jamie Lee Curtis is a really good friend of mine. I followed the shoot and all that stuff.”
Two-time Oscar-winner Foster admitted in the same interview that she “would never have chosen to be an actor” if she hadn’t been “thrown into it at age 3.”
“When I was a kid, I worked so much that by the time that I was 18, I needed to take a different approach,” she said, adding, “If I could do something else, if I was a writer or a painter or sculptor, that would be good too. But this is the only skill I have.”
Foster also shared why she doesn’t often take comedic roles.
“I don’t love doing comedies in English. And maybe it’s because, in America, when we make comedies, they don’t have a lot of subtlety or intelligence. For me, that’s essential,” said Foster. “So I don’t find very many that I love.
Added Foster, “It’s hard for me to be fascinated with comedy for longer than a week. After about a week, I’m like, ‘Oh, can we get this thing over already?’ They’re much harder to make than dramas.”
Curtis praised pal Foster for her “fierce dedication to her work” while speaking at the Silence of the Lambs star’s hand-and-footprint ceremony at the TCM Classic Film Festival in April 2024. Added Curtis at the time, “She’s a creative force and is committed to the work she loves with great performances from that very young age of 3 to this last year at 60….”
In Freakier Friday, Curtis, 66, and Lohan, 38, return as mother-daughter duo Tess and Anna Coleman. “Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice,” teases a synopsis.
Freakier Friday is in theaters Aug. 8.
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