Lindsay Lohan is set to make a major return to the big screen with her upcoming role in the ‘Freaky Friday’ sequel.
This week, Lohan posed with co-star Jamie Lee Curtis to announce the project. She shared the image of the couple sitting in front of swapped trailers, in keeping with the film’s theme, writing in the caption: “The Colemans are back and coming to theaters in 2025! The sequel to Freaky Friday is out now in production !”
The 2003 film starred Lohan as Anna Coleman and Curtis as Tess Coleman, a mother-daughter duo who better understand each other following body swaps.
“Freaky Friday 2” is expected to hit theaters in 2025, and plot details are currently under wraps.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reunite for the follow-up to their 2003 hit “Freaky Friday.” (Mark Waters Walt Disney Pictures USA Still Comedy Scene/Walt Disney Studios)
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Both Lohan and Curtis have teased the sequel over the past two years.
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In 2022, Curtis said during an appearance on “The View”: “I’ve written to Disney before, my friends at Disney,” referring to his recent role in the film “Haunted Mansion.”
She even made a pitch, explaining, “Let me be the grandma! Let me be the old grandma who changes places. Lindsay then becomes the sexy grandma, who is always happy with Mark Harmon from all the ways you would be happy.” with Mark Harmon. …And just, I’d like to see Lindsay be the hot grandma, and I’d like to see myself try to take care of the little ones today. I want to be a helicopter parent in today’s world as an old lady.
In 2023, Lohan told Bustle, “I can’t say much, but we’re going to do it. Hopefully it’ll be sooner rather than later.”
Lohan’s upcoming role in “Freaky Friday 2” is her first major theater role in over a decade. (José Pérez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
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The sequel is Lohan’s first significant theatrical role since 2013’s “The Canyons,” though she has appeared in several streaming projects since then after overcoming high-profile legal and substance abuse issues in her youth and welcoming her first child Last year.
Lohan had her breakthrough role in the 1998 Disney remake of “The Parent Trap,” playing twins Hallie and Annie to critical acclaim.
This was followed by her appearance in “Freaky Friday” with Curtis and another Disney film, “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.”
In 2004, Lohan became a mega star with her role as Cady Heron in “Mean Girls,” the beloved teen comedy.
The original cast of “Mean Girls” included Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried. (CBS via Getty Images)
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But her success attracted paparazzi attention and a reputation as a party girl, and her work began to be affected.
Production on her follow-up to 2005’s “Mean Girls,” “Herbie: Fully Loaded,” was halted for three days when Lohan was hospitalized for “exhaustion.”
Lohan was hospitalized again in 2006 while filming “Georgia Rule” with Jane Fonda for being “overheated and exhausted,” according to her rep at the time. In a leaked letter, the head of the company producing “Georgia Rule” lambasted Lohan for her “various late arrivals and absences from the set.”
A year later, she entered rehab during the production of her film “I Know Who Killed Me.”
Lohan went to rehab during the production of her film “I Know Who Killed Me,” which was a critical and box office failure. (Tracy Bennett/Tri-Star/Kobal/Shutterstock)
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Just two weeks after leaving rehab, Lohan crashed her Mercedes-Benz convertible and was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, possession of cocaine and driving with a suspended license.
The arrest marked the start of Lohan’s legal and substance abuse problems. By 2012, she had appeared in court 20 times, completed six rehabilitation stays and been incarcerated six times.
During this time, his career suffered, plagued by box office and critical failures. In 2013, she appeared in “Scary Movie 5” in a guest appearance and played a lead role in the erotic thriller “The Canyons”, which she also produced.
“The Canyons” marked his last major role for more than a decade.
“The Canyons” was Lohan’s last significant theatrical role until she began appearing in streaming films. (Prettybird/Kobal/Shutterstock)
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Lohan went on to make guest appearances on television shows such as “Eastbound & Down” and “2 Broke Girls” and had a lead role in the British television series “Sick Note.”
She also tried her hand at reality TV, first with an eight-episode series called “Lindsay” on OWN in 2014, chronicling her journey to sobriety and her efforts to rebuild her life after all her legal woes.
In 2019, she starred in “Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club” for MTV, which documented the expansion of her business empire, running a beach club in Mykonos, Greece.
Although she did not appear in any television or film projects, Lohan had gone abroad to focus on entrepreneurship, opening three beach clubs in Greece between 2016 and 2018.
After leaving acting, Lohan pursued entrepreneurship in Europe and settled in Dubai in 2018. (Oscar Gonzalez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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“There’s a business side to my life now, but I’m not in America, so no one knows, which is good for me,” Lohan told the New York Times in 2018, “because I can concentrate on the outcome of things.
The “Prairie Home Companion” star moved to Dubai that same year, later telling Allure that the move happened “organically.”
“Dubai gives me this space to have my own vision of what I should do next,” she said.
It was also in Dubai that she met her now-husband, Bader Shammas, telling the media that after meeting him in a restaurant and talking for hours “…then I told him: ‘I have ‘feel like you’re the person I’m going to be.’ with forever.’ I could never talk to someone like that.”
Lohan told Allure she knew she wanted to be with husband Bader Shammas “forever” after a long discussion at a restaurant. (Perception/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
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Shammas proposed to Lohan while filming her first major comeback movie, the Netflix holiday romantic comedy “Falling for Christmas.”
Ahead of the film’s release, Lohan told Forbes that she felt a renewed “enthusiasm” for showbiz.
“I don’t really think differently,” she said of her views on Hollywood. “I think maybe because I’ve been on set for so long, it was like a new excitement that I hadn’t felt in a long time. Everything was refreshing for me. It was just a whole different way of start, get on set and do films again that I really missed and didn’t realize how much I missed.”
Lohan also produced the film and told Forbes she was excited to become more involved in the filmmaking process.
Lohan’s first significant acting return came in 2022’s “Falling for Christmas” on Netflix. (Scott Everett White/Netflix)
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“When we started shooting the movie…I was like, ‘Oh my God, I actually have more say in what happens.’ I always pay attention to all the little details on set, so to be able to have this kind of role now was really exciting for me. Also, the editing process and the whole end after editing the film, I really have to go for it. I’ve fully committed to it, and it’s a different role that I really love, and I’m not looking to give up anytime soon, I’ve been on sets my whole life, so I feel like I have to give it away now, so I want to use it,” she said.
The 37-year-old married Shammas in 2022 and took a mini-break in 2023 when she welcomed her first child, son Luai, in Dubai in July.
In 2024, she was back with a cameo role in the musical remake of her hit film, “Mean Girls”, and starred in and produced her second film for Netflix, “Irish Wish”.
In an interview with Bustle promoting the film, Lohan opened up about her most difficult years in Hollywood and the impact it had on her career.
“Irish Wish” was Lohan’s second Netflix romantic comedy, released in 2024. (Patrick Redmond/Netflix)
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“I feel like some of (my work) was overshadowed by paparazzi and all that kind of stuff when I was younger, and it’s kind of annoying. I wish that part wouldn’t “It doesn’t happen,” she told the outlet. “I feel like it took on a life of its own. That’s why I wanted to disappear. I was like, ‘Unless there’s no story here, they’re not going to just focus on my work.
Her time in Dubai also led her to focus on her personal experiences and starting her family.
“I was like, ‘What if I never fall in love? What if it never happens?’ And it took me a while for all these doors to open and the ‘yes’ to come in — the things I wanted to say ‘yes’ to,” she told the outlet.
Lohan also said she involves her husband more in her work, telling the magazine, “He’s very intuitive and has a really good understanding of how things are going to play out in the end. He can kind of predict the things So I like having his advice on everything and having him be a part of it makes me feel safer.
Lohan said she felt “safer” around Shammas, who she told Bustle was more committed to her work in Hollywood. (Steve Granitz/FilmMagic)
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With “Freaky Friday 2” in full production, she also has a third Netflix film, “Our Little Secret” starring Kristin Chenoweth, Ian Harding and Tim Meadows, scheduled for release later this year.
Ashley Hume of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
