Lindsay Lohan performs again in pregnancy and weird Friday sequel

More than twenty years have passed since the body plastic comedy that captures the complexity of mother-daughter relationships.

Now, weird Friday sees Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reunited in the sequel to explore the same themes at very different stages of life.

The film is accompanied by Lohan’s character Anna, who has a daughter of his own and deals with the challenge of playing a stepdaughter as well. The family dynamics became even more weird due to the quadruped corpse exchange.

At the European film premiere in London’s Leicester Square, Lindsay Lohan told the BBC that each of her parts wanted to produce a sequel to the much-loved hit song of 2003.

“Fans love this movie and have such a strong loyalty,” she explained. “It makes people feel so happy, and I love making movies that make people feel happy.

“Now, there’s a lot going on in the world, and it’s great to do something that makes people forget what’s going on.”

The film brought Lohan back to Hollywood—she was absent for most of the 2010s and returned to the big screen in 2022, falling down on Christmas.

It’s her first film with Disney in more than a decade, but probably not the last one, as she said, if fans love weird Fridays, they might expect the weirdest sequel.

The star’s reputation in the parental trap told me that she wasn’t nervous about returning to her behavior because she loved her job “and I know it always shows up in my job.”

She added that her return to the show was to find the right time, and the 39-year-old married financier Bader Shammas for a few years in 2022 and gave birth to a son a year later.

She said as a parent, she has a new perspective on the mother-son relationship in the movie and has helped her build more connections with the movie.

“When you become a mom, your life will change, and being able to balance work and become a mom is definitely a learning process, and that’s important.”

Lohan has been in the public eye for nearly three decades and spent her turbulent time in her 20s – she was arrested multiple times for various crimes and spent time in recovery on various occasions.

She told the BBC that looking back, she would tell her young self not to rush, “just slow down and breathe because everything is coming.”

Curtis reprised Lohan’s mother in the movie, and he told me that the weird Friday sequel wasn’t like Lohan’s party because “we’ve been united.”

“I take my work seriously and when I’m a mother or elder to a young actor, I take a huge responsibility to make sure they can always count on my friendship and love,” she said.

“We have been together from her teenage years to her twenties and she recently met me with her baby in Los Angeles.”

The actor, who won an Oscar for a superhero comedy in 2023, said the theme of understanding and sympathy for the film is now very important.

“Understanding the understanding of the world is short-lived, and this movie shows that if you can experience each other’s lives, then maybe you’ll find each other’s common ground.”

In addition to getting funny and stupid, Curtis added that the film touches on the subject of loss, “it’s a universal feeling.”

The 66-year-old said her idea was to make a sequel, and she recently contacted Disney and said it was time to create it. She had to wait twenty years because “we need Lindsay to be old enough to have a 15-year-old in the movie”.

Chad Michael Murray reprises his role as Noughties Heartthrob Jake and newcomer Julia Butters as Lohan’s screen daughter.

More broadly, Weird Friday is part of the trend to announce and release sequels.

Last week, follow-up bends like Beckham was revealed, there were a lot of Expectations for the Devil Wearing Prada sequel.

The weird Friday takes place on Friday, August 8.

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