Jamie Lee Curtis is getting freaky once more, and having the time of her life doing it.
Throughout an interview for her new movie “Borderlands” alongside co-star Cate Blanchett, the Oscar winner excitedly dished on “Freaky Friday 2,” the follow-up to her hit 2003 body-swap comedy.
The sequel, which Curtis says concludes manufacturing in about two weeks, reunites her with a now-grown-up Lindsay Lohan. “Lindsay’s a mommy. Little Luai simply had his first birthday per week in the past. It adjustments you as a human, being a guardian. She’s very conservative, so I used to be like, ‘Loosen up. Loosen up.’ Luai’s simply beginning to stroll. She’s at that time the place toddlers maintain onto issues, then they wobble, then they go down. She’s at work, and she or he’s watching on her cellphone,” Curtis says.
“She’s watching movies on livestream with the newborn in between scenes. She’s watching her youngster begin toddling, and it’s simply very candy. She’s nice. She’s very comfortable. We’re having a extremely, actually, actually enjoyable time.”
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan on the 2003 L.A. premiere of “Freaky Friday.”
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Lohan isn’t the one “Freaky Friday” alum becoming a member of her within the sequel. Chad Michael Murray additionally reprises his function as Jake, and no person’s extra enthusiastic about it than Curtis. She remembers the primary desk learn for the crew and Disney execs, which was already going effectively and getting plenty of laughs. “Impulsively, the Chad Michael Murray character comes into the story, and I’m telling you, the whole room modified. Each girl within the room was leaning ahead. The laughter, the applause that he acquired! After the desk learn, I walked as much as the director and producers. I used to be like, ‘We have to stretch that taffy. He’s gold. His character is simply so fabulous.’ Jake is again, in a giant, huge approach.”
“Borderlands” noticed one other reunion for Curtis, this time with Blanchett — though she didn’t bear in mind assembly her earlier than the movie. “I needed an apology for the truth that you couldn’t keep in mind that we’d really met earlier than,” Blanchett quips. “In order that’s what I used to be looking for, and I nonetheless haven’t acquired. I’m hoping through the course of this interview, we would get an apology.”
Curtis smiles and replies, “I’ve made it very clear within the universe that I make public apologies once I do one thing mistaken. I’m telling you, I don’t bear in mind the interchange at an award present!”
Blanchett scoffs. “It was at an after celebration. You had been standing there, like a door bitch!”
“Door bitch? I’ve been referred to as shit my entire life, however ‘door bitch’ isn’t one I’ve heard earlier than,” Curtis says as they each descend right into a match of giggles.
Blanchett and Curtis rib one another relentlessly through the course of the interview, however it’s clear there’s nothing however love between the 2, who each signed onto the undertaking as a result of they needed the prospect to work with one another.
Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis on the thirty fourth Annual Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Awards in 2023.
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“9 lives can be form of an understatement for what number of lives you have got had, and the large affect you’ve had on my filmgoing life — the eclectic issues that you simply’ve executed,” Blanchett says.
Curtis is equally effusive. “I’m 66 years previous, and I’ve had a extremely bizarre and delightful expertise with my work. There are only a few individuals whose work has constantly jogged my memory of why I’m an actor,” she says, squeezing Blanchett’s hand.
The online game adaptation from Lionsgate follows a ragtag group of adventurers as they race to open a mystical vault on the planet Pandora. The movie, directed by Eli Roth, began manufacturing in 2021 through the pandemic however underwent reshoots in 2023, which had been helmed by “Deadpool” director Tim Miller.
Within the break between the 2 shoots, Curtis and Blanchett each stirred up buzz that may earn every of them Academy Award nominations for his or her work in “All the things In all places All At As soon as” and “Tár,” respectively. (Curtis took house the perfect supporting actress prize.)
Throughout a four-hour street journey to Palm Springs, Curtis opened as much as Blanchett about her sophisticated emotions. “I had began to get these earwigs of individuals saying to me that I used to be going to get nominated for an Oscar,” she remembers, tears welling up in her eyes. “It makes me cry. You’ll be able to’t get an earwig out as soon as someone’s put it in there and it’s spinning round in your mind … I talked to Cate in regards to the nervousness I used to be feeling, as a result of I didn’t wish to be upset, but I needed to be open to no matter.”
“I used to be asking recommendation from somebody who had been there many, many, many instances and was in that very same sphere,” Curtis continues. “I couldn’t say that out loud to a different human being, as a result of it was too susceptible for me.”
BORDERLANDS, from left: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Jamie Lee Curtis, 2024.
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“I mentioned, ‘Don’t fear, “Borderlands” will not be nominated,’” Blanchett laughs. Whereas the movie definitely isn’t awards fodder, she hopes followers of the sport sequence will get pleasure from what they’ve made. “The world is such a mash up of a Western and a sci-fi. It’s enjoyable, and it’s acquired nice coronary heart. It’s acquired Kevin Hart, however it’s additionally, it’s acquired plenty of coronary heart.”
“It is a film model of a peanut butter cup,” Curtis says. “You’re taking issues that don’t essentially go collectively, after which they go collectively, and also you go, ‘Oh my goodness, I like that a lot!’”
Blanchett laughs and provides, “Properly, a peanut butter cup that’s lined with Thresher vomit and piss wash.”
