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

Millennials are eagerly anticipating the sequel to the Y2K epoch Disney comedy drama Freaky Friday, which is acceptable to reunite Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis arsenic the body-swapping mother-daughter duo. Don’t clasp your enactment for a Jodie Foster cameo, though: the prima of the archetypal 1976 Freaky Friday, who did not look successful the remake, volition besides beryllium giving Freakier Friday a pass. That’s not for deficiency of trying, though.

“We begged her,” Freakier Friday manager Nisha Ganatra told Entertainment Weekly. “She’s not going to bash it.”

Ganatra added that she “never recovered retired why.”

As fans of the Lohan-Curtis household flick volition recall, it didn’t astatine each thin into nostalgia for the 1976 original, truthful adding a Foster cameo present mightiness person felt retired of place. Ganatra told EW, “I deliberation we were going to marque her the main astatine the school,” if archetypal featured subordinate Stephen Tobolowsky wasn’t capable to instrumentality arsenic Mr. Bates, a memorable antagonist successful the 2003 film.

The manager continued: “Honestly, we tried everything. We were like, ‘What astir this?'” but yet Foster turned them down. However, newcomer Julia Butters, who plays the Lohan character’s daughter, pays homage to Foster with “fun, amused, chill vibes” that are “inspired by Jodie Foster’s instrumentality connected the character.”

To beryllium honest, forcing successful a Foster cameo mightiness person made Freakier Friday consciousness overstuffed. Its communicative follows Anna (Lohan) connected the verge of a immense life-changing moment, with Tess (Curtis) present a grandma to Anna’s Jodie Foster-ish teen. The movie centers astir Anna marrying a chap azygous genitor played by Manny Jacinto (The Acolyte) and their families joining unneurotic successful an ensemble piece—with, of course, exponential levels of chaos ensuing erstwhile much body-swapping takes place.

Freakier Friday opens August 8.

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