Original Freaky Friday Star Jodie Foster Will Not Cameo in Freakier Friday

Millennials are eagerly anticipating the sequel to the Y2K era Disney comedy comedy Freaky Friday, which is set to reunite Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as the body-swapping mother-daughter duo. Don’t hold your breath for a Jodie Foster cameo, though: the star of the original 1976 Freaky Friday, who did not appear in the remake, will also be giving Freakier Friday a pass. That’s not for lack of trying, though. “We begged her,” Freakier Friday director Nisha Ganatra told Entertainment Weekly. “She’s not going to do it.” Ganatra added that she “never found out why.” As fans of the Lohan-Curtis family flick will recall, it didn’t at all lean into nostalgia for the 1976 original, so adding a Foster cameo here might have felt out of place. Ganatra told EW, “I think we were going to make her the principal at the school,” if original featured player Stephen Tobolowsky wasn’t able to return as Mr. Bates, a memorable antagonist in the 2003 film. The director continued: “Honestly, we tr ... Read full article.