Freakier Friday is the sequel to 2003’s Freaky Friday, and here is every star who appears in both. In terms of the best body swap movies, the original Freaky Friday stands tall. Of course, this “original” was a remake of earlier movies, but Disney’s attempt starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lyndsay Lohan is the most successful.
With Freakier Friday‘s release, the long-awaited sequel finally unleashes some more body-swapping mayhem. The story of Freaky Friday 2 follows a similar premise to the first movie, only this time with Lohan’s Anna as a mother herself. Freakier Friday‘s trailer teases as much, all while showcasing the movie’s main cast.
As a sequel, several cast members from Freakier Friday return from the 2003 original. Here is every one of them, from the film’s two main leads to supporting cast members.
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Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis returns for Freakier Friday as Tess Coleman. In the first movie, Tess was a psychiatrist who was engaged to a man named Ryan, much to the chagrin of her daughter, who had not come to terms with the death of her father years prior. This causes Tess and her daughter to often clash, until the two swap bodies and begin to understand one another.
Freakier Friday follows a similar story, only this time with the inclusion of Tess’ grandchild and soon-to-be step-grandchild. As proven by the sequel’s trailer, Curtis’ Tess swaps bodies with her impending step-granddaughter. As with the first movie, the plot revolves around faking it as a new person until the body-swapping ends.
Curtis’ return is a big deal, due to both her role in the first movie and her illustrious career. Curtis’ breakthrough role came in 1978’s Halloween as Laurie Strode, a role she has reprised in several sequels. Beyond that, Curtis was known for her role in James Cameron’s True Lies.
More recently, Curtis has appeared in Everything Everywhere All at Once, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Other movies include Knives Out and Borderlands, with Curtis also receiving acclaim for her guest role in The Bear.
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Lindsay Lohan
Alongside Curtis, Freakier Friday features the return of Lindsay Lohan as Anna Coleman. Anna’s role in the first movie saw her clashing with her mother, Curtis’ Tess, over the imminent wedding to Ryan. Anna was shown to still be struggling with the death of her father, explaining the tension around Tess’ remarriage.
Freakier Friday sees Anna in the position her mother once was, marrying into a new family. Anna is set to marry Manny Jacinto’s Eric, yet her daughter, Harper, does not get along with Eric’s daughter, Lily. This time, the body swap puts Anna into her daughter’s body and vice versa, much like her and Tess’ dynamic in the original.
As with Curtis, Lohan’s return for Freakier Friday is a big deal. Lohan’s career has been tumultuous, primarily due to her substance and legal issues in the late 2000s and early 2010s. However, Lohan has been open about these issues and her rehabilitation, with the 2020s seeing a much more positive spin for her career.
Lohan’s career began as a child actor, with The Parent Trap earning her widespread fame. Freaky Friday and Mean Girls saw her fame grow even more, leading to her aforementioned setbacks. 2022’s Falling for Christmas was Lohan’s first major leading role in over a decade, with the Netflix holiday movie being dubbed a return to form for her ahead of Freakier Friday‘s production.
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Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon is another actor who returns from Freaky Friday for Freakier Friday. Harmon portrayed Ryan in the first movie, the soon-to-be husband of Curtis’ Tess. The end of the first movie saw Ryan and Tess get married, with Harmon returning for the sequel.
In Freakier Friday, Ryan is now Tess’ husband of several decades. Ryan does not have a huge role in the sequel, but he offers a lot of laughs as someone on the outside of the body-swapping, witnessing the strange goings-on now that his wife’s mind is in the body of a teenager.
Freakier Friday will be Harmon’s first theatrical role since 2009’s Weather Girl. The reason for this is Harmon’s extensive TV work, with the actor best known for his Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the NCIS franchise. Now, though, Harmon returns with ease to a great role from an iconic movie.
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Chad Michael Murray
Alongside Curtis, Lohan, and Harmon, Chad Michael Murray will reprise his role of Jake in Freakier Friday. Jake’s role in the first movie was as Anna’s love interest, though he also humorously fell for her mother, Tess, after the body-swapping confusion. In the finale of the first movie, Jake and Anna become an official couple after receiving Tess’ blessing.
Murray returns as Jake in Freakier Friday, with him and Anna having broken up between the first two movies. In the sequel, the souls of Harper and Lily, inside Anna and Tess’ bodies, try to reignite a relationship between Jake and his former flame to ensure Anna’s wedding to Eric does not go ahead.
After his role in Freaky Friday, Murray appeared in films like A Cinderella Story before going on to have a bigger career in TV. Murray’s best-known role is Lucas Scott in One Tree Hill, with recurring appearances coming in the likes of Chosen, Agent Carter, Riverdale, and Sullivan’s Crossing.
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Rosalind Chao
Rosalind Chao appears in Freakier Friday as Pei-Pei, an instrumental character from the original movie. Pei-Pei works at a Chinese restaurant with her mother, with the latter being the catalyst for the original body swap. Pei-Pei then helps Anna and Tess with their dilemma, insisting that an act of true selflessness will reverse the body swap.
In Freakier Friday, Chao returns as Pei-Pei in one small scene. Pei-Pei is accused of hiring a fortune teller, the catalyst for the body-swapping this time, referencing the first movie. Chao is perhaps best known for Freaky Friday and the 2020 reboot of Mulan. In the realm of TV, Chao is known for AfterMASH, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, and 2024’s 3 Body Problem.
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Lucille Soong
Lucille Soong plays Pei-Pei’s mother in Freaky Friday and is who causes Anna and Tess to swap bodies. While the trailer for Freakier Friday hints that Vanessa Bayer’s Madame Jen is the reason for the body swap in the sequel, Soong reprises her role as Pei-Pei’s mom. Like Chao, Soong only appears at Anna’s bachelorette party and doesn’t play much of a role beyond this.
Soong is known for her voice role in Raya and the Last Dragon and a recurring role in Desperate Housewives. Between 2015 and 2020, Soong portrayed Grandma Huang in the sitcom Fresh Off the Boat.
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Christina Vidal Mitchell
Christina Vidal Mitchell reprises her role in Freakier Friday after playing Maddie in the first movie. Maddie was Anna’s bandmate, who appeared as somewhat of a confidant for Lohan’s character before the two were driven apart by the body-swapping.
In the finale of the first movie, Anna and Tess join forces to allow Maddie and the rest of the band, Pink Slip, to perform at an important concert. In the sequel, Anna and Maddie are still close friends, despite Pink Slip being disbanded. By the ending, though, Pink Slip reunites for a final performance.
Christina Vidal Mitchell is best known for several TV series’. Mitchell played the тιтular character in Taina in the early 2000s. More recent work saw her play a main role in the TV adaptation of Training Day, as well as appearing in Prime Video’s The Terminal List.
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Haley Hudson
Haley Hudson plays another of Anna’s bandmates, Peg, in Freaky Friday. Hudson returns as Peg in Freakier Friday, also serving as one of Anna’s best friends in their adult life. Hudson’s acting roles since Freaky Friday have been limited, yet she is currently part of the band Hudson Rubin, formed with another member of the film’s fictional “Pink Slip” band.
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Ryan Malgarini
The younger brother of Anna in Freaky Friday, Harry, was played by Ryan Malgarini, who reprises his role in Freakier Friday. Harry was less of a focus in both movies, given that it was his family who became the subject of a body-swap plot. In the sequel, Malgarini’s only scene comes at a rehearsal dinner for his sister’s wedding.
Beyond Freaky Friday and its sequel, Malgarini is best known for his main role in Gary Unmarried.
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Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky appears in both Freaky Friday and Freakier Friday as Mr. Elton Bates. In the first movie, Bates purposely mistreated Anna during school in revenge for Tess’ rejection of him when they were younger. In Freakier Friday, Bates is shown taking out even more anger on Anna’s daughter, Harper, in an extended scene during a school detention.
Tobolowsky is a prolific character actor, having hundreds of credits across film and TV. Tobolowsky’s best-known roles came in the likes of Groundhog Day, Momento, ᴅᴇᴀᴅwood, Heroes, Glee, The Goldbergs, and The Mindy Project. In Freakier Friday, he returns in a limited role, though one that holds some big connections to the first movie.
