Freaky Friday director Mark Waters had hopes of engaged on the movie's long-awaited 2025 sequel — however, in line with him, by no means acquired the chance.
“I used to be not invited to the celebration,” Waters, 61, claimed in an interview with Selection revealed on Saturday, August 16. “I did increase my hand and say I'd like to be concerned one way or the other, even in a sort of godfather facet or government producer. However I used to be not prolonged an invite.”
The director famous that after he realized that any involvement in Freakier Friday was off the desk, he began to give attention to different initiatives.
“It could have been good to be concerned however now that I'm not, I type of compartmentalize it for myself,” Waters defined. “I have to commit my power to maintain making new, unique issues which are going to be hits and folks can remake them in 20 years.”
He additionally claimed that “fairly a couple of” members of the solid reached out to him throughout filming.
Waters additionally regarded again on the method of touchdown the director position within the first place — and the problem he had with the unique script.
“I acquired the assembly and I bear in mind getting in and sort of feeling like that they had a horrible script. I felt it will be actually nice to get this job, however I can't go in and inform them this script is nice, as a result of I'd be mendacity,” he stated. “The script was a few woman who labored at a faculty newspaper and needed to get an interview with Gwen Stefani on the Home of Blues. And I stated, ‘Why are you doing this? She will be able to't be some nerd who works with the varsity paper and the mom's a nerd who's a physician.That is ‘Freaky Friday,' you must have the mom and daughter be far aside. She must be rock and roll, she must be the lead guitarist in a band enjoying on the Home of Blues after which the mom has to play guitar.'”
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Waters ended up working with Lindsay Lohan, who starred within the unique Freaky Friday in addition to the 2025 sequel alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, in 2004's Imply Ladies. He admitted to Selection that he'd pitched Lohan for the position of Regina King, finally performed by Rachel McAdams.
“Lindsay's power is way more like Regina — I don't imply that in a destructive manner, she's simply way more forceful and a extremely robust persona. I bear in mind studying the Regina scenes along with her and she or he was superb,” he defined.
As soon as McAdams was solid, Lohan ended up enjoying Cady Heron as an alternative. The actress “was just a little bummed” as a result of “she thought Regina was extra enjoyable,” he admitted.
“However she ended up embracing it,” he stated. “And Sherry Lansing identified that with Freaky Friday such an enormous hit, she needed to be the lead of the film. All of it labored out for the perfect.”
