Freakier Friday is here and fans have been reunited with Anna (Lindsay Lohan) and Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis). But the Nisha Ganatra movie does a bit more for fans of Lohan’s filmography with this movie and it ruled.
The “freakquel” had Anna and her daughter Harper (Julia Butters) switching bodies as her future step-daughter, Lily (Sophia Hammons), switched places with Tess. The four had to figure out how to all communicate with each other and learn to be open to changes within their lives, especially with Anna marrying Lily’s dad Eric (Manny Jacinto). But for all the nods to the 2003 film, Ganatra and writer Jordan Weiss threw in a few other nods as well.
Anna is getting married on October 3rd. In an interview with Collider, Lohan said that it was her who clocked the reference and no one else seemed to think about the October 3rd of it all. If you’ve seen her movie Mean Girls, you know that October 3rd has become something of a meme itself. Cady (Lohan) says that the boy she likes, Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett), asks her what day it is. She says it is October 3rd and then we hear it out loud. “On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was,” she says and then tells him and it is just a funny moment from the film.
But then we had even more of a Lohan moment with Elaine Hendrix making a cameo in Freakier Friday. Hendrix played Meredith Blake in The Parent Trap with Lohan and she pops up in this sequel as the editor in chief of a magazine that Anna needs to deal with (while she is actually Harper).
It feels wonderful seeing Lindsay Lohan have this time to shine
While Lohan is just a few years older than I am, she is someone who I grew up watching. I was 6 turning 7 when The Parent Trap was released. From there, I watched every single Lohan movie that came out and I was always rooting for her because she was the queen of the raspy voice. And everyone already said I sounded like her because of my own raspy voice.
Seeing Lohan have the comeback that she has with her Netflix films and now Freakier Friday, I am just beyond excited for a new generation of kids to get to experience Lindsay Lohan movies like we did. So much of her work is engrained in the millennial mindset. If you mumble a Mean Girls reference, we activate like sleeper agents. If we hear the music from The Parent Trap where Annie did her special dance with her butler, we will do it ourselves.
The point is that so many of us love Lohan’s work and getting to see her come back and be better than ever is just great. And if that means throwing little references in to Freakier Friday for us all to enjoy, then we are all the better for it.
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