‘Freaky Friday’ director reveals he wasn’t invited back for sequel: ‘I did raise my hand’
NY Post
Even the filmmakers got swapped.
Mark Waters, who directed the 2003 film “Freaky Friday” starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, has revealed that he was never even approached to return for this year’s sequel.
“Yeah, unfortunately, I was not invited to the party,” Waters, 61, told Variety of the sequel in an interview published Friday, Aug. 15. “I did raise my hand and say I’d love to be involved somehow, even in a kind of godfather aspect or executive producer.”
“But I was not extended an invitation,” he added.
Despite directing Lohan, 39, and Curtis, 66, in the 2003 “Freaky Friday” remake, the director role ultimately went to Nisha Ganatra when “Freakier Friday” began production in 2024.
However, the “Mean Girls” director was not disappointed about not being asked to return, and he even supported Lohan, Curtis and the other cast members who returned for the sequel after more than 20 years.
