Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan returned to London with Freakier Friday, the sequel to their 2003 body-swap comedy, on a green and purple carpet.
Freakier Friday held its UK premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on Thursday 31 July 2025, more than twenty years after Freaky Friday first paired its two stars.
Jamie Lee Curtis headed the cast on the carpet. Born in Santa Monica in 1958, the youngest daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, she made her screen debut in a 1977 episode of Quincy, M.E. and her film debut the next year as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter’s Halloween, the role that made her name. Trading Places won her a BAFTA and True Lies a Golden Globe, and A Fish Called Wanda and My Girl stand among her other films. Everything Everywhere All at Once brought her the Academy Award in 2023, and she has also written a run of best-selling children’s books.
Nisha Ganatra directed the sequel from a screenplay by Jordan Weiss, and it picks up years after Tess and Anna Coleman first swapped bodies, now with two families about to merge. The film was planned for streaming and moved to cinemas at the request of Curtis and Lindsay Lohan.
Lohan, Chad Michael Murray, Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons and Manny Jacinto joined Curtis on a green and purple carpet, with Ganatra and the producer Kristin Burr. Disney released the film in British cinemas on 8 August 2025, and it went on to gross more than $150 million worldwide.