The alternative ending to ‘Freaky Friday’ that almost no one knows about

In May 2023, Disney confirmed the long-awaited sequel to “Freaky Friday”, a classic feature film released in 2003 that follows the generational conflict between Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis), a bossy mother, and her daughter Anna (lindsay lohan), a rebellious teenager, who go through major changes in their relationship after switching bodies after eating a fortune cookie.

The film will feature the return of Curtis It is Lohan to the main roles, and production is already in full swing. In an interview with the program Andy Cohen on SiriusXM radio, lindsay stated that, despite not being able to give spoilers, she and Jamie are very excited about the new film.

“I can’t talk about dates yet, I don’t want to reveal too much,” she commented. “But we’re both very excited, I think I can speak for Jamie [se referindo a Lee Curtis] in that regard”.

The idea of ​​a sequel to “Freaky Friday” has been discussed for some time. In 2022, Jamie Lee told The View that she had thought of an idea for a possible script, where she said that her character would be a grandmother and swap bodies with her daughter again.

“So Lindsay becomes the sexy grandma, who’s still happy with Mark Harmon in all the ways you’d be happy with Mark Harmon. And simply put, I’d like to see Lindsay be the hot grandma, and I’d like to see me try to deal with today’s children.”, explained the actress.

Interestingly, the script imagined by Curtis makes reference to an alternative ending to “Freaky Friday” that almost no one knows about.

New body swap

The scene in question is the continuation of a sequence that is present in the extra scenes on the production DVD. In it, we see Harry (Ryan Malgarini) and Grandpa Alan (Harold Gould) arguing at Tess’s wedding, when they receive a fortune cookie from the owner of the Chinese restaurant — just as happens with the protagonists at the beginning of the film.

With that, Pei Pei (Rosalind Chao), daughter of the restaurant owner, runs to stop the two from opening the cookies, preventing a new change of bodies from happening. In the alternative ending that was discarded, however, the woman is unable to stop them and, after breaking the cookies, an earthquake is caused, repeating what happened to Tess and Anna.

Until the publication of this article, no information had been released about the script for the sequel to “Very Crazy Friday”.