For youthful Millennials, 2003’s Freaky Friday remake stays a cornerstone textual content – a body-swap blast that’s extraordinarily… nicely, 2003, proper all the way down to its style and music, the right swirling sweet-spot of Avril Lavigne and pop-punk and spiky belts and hi-top Converse. All of it coalesces within the type of Pink Slip, the fictional band through which Lindsay Lohan’s Anna wields her signature pink axe, blasting out their earworm hit ‘Take Me Away’. (Sure, it’s nonetheless a banger.) And so with Freakier Friday on the horizon, it doesn’t simply mark the return of Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as Anna and Tess – it’s additionally one thing of a Pink Slip comeback.
“That punk Anna, she’s nonetheless there,” Lohan tells Empire, teasing the band’s return within the sequel. And when it got here to getting again into fret-shredding mode, all of it got here flooding again. “The second I began with my guitar coach once more, it was like we by no means left,” she recollects. “It was the identical guitar, every little thing. It was prefer it was yesterday.” The truth is, for Anna’s huge solo, it was a case of turning issues as much as 11. “We made it tougher for this one,” Lohan teases. “I’m such a perfectionist; we rehearsed quite a bit.”
However whereas ‘Take Me Away’ noticed Anna singing, “Don’t wanna develop up / I wanna get out”, time has a method of adjusting issues. Freakier Friday will present how a lot Anna has grown up within the intervening years – now a mom to teen daughter Harper (As soon as Upon A Time In Hollywood’s Julia Butters), and making ready to mix her household with that of her fiancé, Manny Jacinton’s Eric. “The entire world appears to be like totally different,” Lohan says of the attitude Anna now holds. “Every little thing is about your little one. However we’ve got to recollect to find time for ourselves too, dwell our lives, fulfill our desires. Mothers are all the time attempting to juggle all of it, and that’s what Anna’s going via on this.” Pop-punk enjoyable with a aspect of bubblegum existentialism? Welcome again, Freaky Friday.
Learn Empire’s full Freakier Friday interview with Lindsay Lohan within the Tron: Ares concern – on sale Thursday 3 July. Pre-order a duplicate on-line right here. Freakier Friday involves UK cinemas from 8 August.
