Chad Michael Murray needed to brush up on his homework whereas filming Freakier Friday.
The 43-year-old actor, who performed Lindsay Lohan’s love curiosity within the authentic 2003 cult traditional, shared throughout a fan Q&A at Christmas Con 2024 in Edison, N.J., on December 15, that the sequel’s body-swapping chaos generally left him scratching his head.
“There [were] moments the place I’m sitting there going, ‘Okay, who’s who?’” Murray confessed, per People journal. “I used to be actually targeted. I needed to do my homework, like, rather a lot, after which I’d nonetheless get it fallacious,” he added with amusing, reflecting on the challenges of navigating the mind-bending plot.
Despite the confusion, the One Tree Hill star described the expertise of reuniting together with his Freaky Friday costar Lindsay Lohan after over twenty years as “superior” and likened it to “a highschool reunion.”
He famous, “It felt like no time had handed, and but we had total lives in between.”
The sequel brings again fan-favourite characters, together with Lohan as Anna Coleman, Jamie Lee Curtis as her mom Tess, and Murray reprising his function as Jake. Original solid members like Mark Harmon and Christina Vidal Mitchell are set to return, alongside new faces Julia Butters, Manny Jacinto, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan.
Directed by Nisha Ganatra, Freakier Friday will see Lohan and Curtis’ characters switching our bodies with two teenage women. The movie is slated to hit theatres on August 8, 2025.
