The fun-sucking wait for a first look at Freakier Friday is finally over, as Disney surprise-released (on Friday, no less!) the first teaser trailer for Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan‘s return in the highly anticipated Freaky Friday sequel.
Curtis and Lohan reprise their roles in the new preview as Tess and Anna Coleman, who visit a psychic (Saturday Night Live‘s Vanessa Bayer), who tells them that their “lifelines” have “intersected before” — an assessment the mother-daughter duo initially balks at.
Later, they’re seen tossing and turning at night — and, naturally, they wake up in each other’s bodies once again. Only this time, Anna’s biological daughter and stepdaughter are in on the action, too, with Tess inhabiting the body of the latter.
“My face looks like a Birkin bag that’s been left out in the sun to rot!” screams Tess, who isn’t quite Tess.
The teaser features several nostalgic nods to the 2003 flick, including Lohan and Curtis running into each other at full force to switch their bodies back. But as we learned the first time, “that doesn’t work!” Lohan can also be seen on stage jamming on her guitar alongside the first film’s in-movie band, Pink Slip, alongside other returning stars Christina Vidal and Haley Hudson.
Chad Michael Murray closes the preview by making a “sexy entrance” atop Jake’s motorcycle, recalling his character’s status as Anna’s love interest in the first film.
“I’m telling you right now, this one played a song last night at the Wiltern [theater in Los Angeles] and it is in my ear like one of those Star Trek earworms,” Curtis previously told Entertainment Weekly of Lohan’s return to music in the film. “I’m telling you, it’s going to be a monster hit. I’m not going to tell you what it’s called because we’re in the middle of making it, but there are some old favorites played in this movie.”
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On the tone of the film, Lohan added that “there’s more physical comedy in this. Much more than the original,” while, at its heart, the movie has “a lot of love in it. Love and loss.”
Mark Harmon and Rosalind Chao (who can briefly be seen in the teaser) also reprise their roles for the sequel, while Manny Jacinto (as Lohan’s onscreen husband), Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan round out the cast of newcomers in the comedy from director Nisha Ganatra. Curtis and Lohan are among the producers, alongside Kristin Burr, Andrew Gunn, Nathan Kelly, and Ann Marie Sanderlin.
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“For me, it feels like no time has passed,” Curtis said of working on the sequel at D23 last summer. “We both get to play moms.”
“It doesn’t even feel like work,” Lohan added, teasing that the film is “more fun” and “more emotional.”
Freakier Friday is in theaters Aug. 8. Watch the teaser above.