Jamie Lee Curtis on Freaky Friday’s Career Impact

Freaky Friday was anything but a funsucker.

Indeed, the 2003 film starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Chad Michael Murray and Mark Harmon has become a fan-favorite over the years—so much so that it received a sequel, Freakier Friday, in 2025. (Freakier Friday is available on digital Oct. 7 and Blu-Ray Nov. 11.)

But for Jamie Lee, the original movie bears special weight. 

“It was an unexpected moment for me professionally,” she explained in a clip included in Freakier Friday’s bonus features. “And then it became this pivoting moment for me professionally, because the movie was such an enormous worldwide success.”

Chad, too, looks back on the movie as a career high, the word coming to his mind when he thinks of the film being “nostalgia.”

 “You know, 22 years ago, making a movie,” the One Tree Hill alum began, “I was new to town, and I got the opportunity to come and work with Jamie Lee and Lindsay, and just go make a movie that hit on so many levels, and so many people could identify with the story.”