For younger Millennials, 2003’s Freaky Friday remake remains a cornerstone text – a body-swap blast that is extremely… well, 2003, right down to its
For younger Millennials, 2003’s Freaky Friday remake remains a cornerstone text – a body-swap blast that is extremely… well, 2003, right down to its fashion and music, the perfect swirling sweet-spot of Avril Lavigne and pop-punk and spiky belts and hi-top Converse. It all coalesces in the form of Pink Slip, the fictional band in which Lindsay Lohan’s Anna wields her signature red axe, blasting out their earworm hit ‘Take Me Away’. (Yes, it’s still a banger.) And so with Freakier Friday on the horizon, it doesn’t just mark the return of Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as Anna and Tess – it’s also something of a Pink Slip comeback.
“That punk Anna, she’s still there,” Lohan tells Empire, teasing the band’s return in the sequel. And when it came to getting back into fret-shredding mode, it all came flooding back. “The second I started with my guitar coach again, it was like we never left,” she recalls. “It was the same guitar, everything. It was like it was yesterday.” In fact, for Anna’s substantial solo, it was a case of turning things up to 11. “We made it more difficult for this one,” Lohan teases. “I’m such a perfectionist; we rehearsed a lot.”
But while ‘Take Me Away’ saw Anna singing, “Don’t wanna grow up / I wanna get out”, time has a way of changing things. Freakier Friday will show how much Anna has grown up in the intervening years – now a mother to teen daughter Harper (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’s Julia Butters), and preparing to blend her family with that of her fiancé, Manny Jacinton’s Eric. “The whole world looks different,” Lohan says of the perspective Anna now holds. “Everything is about your child. But we have to remember to make time for ourselves too, live our lives, fulfill our dreams. Moms are always trying to juggle it all, and that’s what Anna’s going through in this.” Pop-punk fun with a side of bubblegum existentialism? Welcome back, Freaky Friday.
Read Empire’s full Freakier Friday interview with Lindsay Lohan in the Tron: Ares issue – on sale Thursday 3 July. Pre-order a copy online here. Freakier Friday comes to UK cinemas from 8 August.
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