{"id":1964848,"date":"2025-08-17T04:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1964848"},"modified":"2025-08-17T04:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:09:03","slug":"original-freaky-friday-director-claims-he-wasnt-invited-to-work-on-sequel-did-raise-my-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/original-freaky-friday-director-claims-he-wasnt-invited-to-work-on-sequel-did-raise-my-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Original \u2018Freaky Friday\u2019 Director Claims He \u2018Wasn\u2019t Invited\u2019 to Work on Sequel: \u2018Did Raise My Hand\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Freaky Friday<\/em> director Mark Waters<\/strong> had hopes of working on the film\u2019s long-awaited 2025 sequel \u2014 but, according to him, never got the opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was not invited to the party,\u201d Waters, 61, claimed in an interview with Variety<\/em> published on Saturday, August 16. \u201cI did raise my hand and say I\u2019d love to be involved somehow, even in a kind of godfather aspect or executive producer. But I was not extended an invitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The director noted that once he realized that any involvement in Freakier Friday<\/em> was off the table, he started to focus on other projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have been nice to be involved but now that I\u2019m not, I sort of compartmentalize it for myself,\u201d Waters explained. \u201cI need to devote my energy to keep making new, original things that are going to be hits and people can remake them in 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He also claimed that \u201cquite a few\u201d members of the cast reached out to him during filming.<\/p>\n

Waters also looked back on the process of landing the director role in the first place \u2014 and the issue he had with the original script.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got the meeting and I remember going in and kind of feeling like they had a terrible script. I felt it would be really great to get this job, but I can\u2019t go in and tell them this script is good, because I\u2019d be lying,\u201d he said. \u201cThe script was about a girl who worked at a school newspaper and wanted to get an interview with Gwen Stefani<\/strong> at the House of Blues. And I said, \u2018Why are you doing this? She can\u2019t be some nerd who works with the school paper and the mother\u2019s a nerd who\u2019s a doctor.This is \u2018Freaky Friday,\u2019 you have to have the mother and daughter be far apart. She needs to be rock and roll, she should be the lead guitarist in a band playing at the House of Blues and then the mother has to play guitar.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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