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Freakier Friday cast and crew criticise ‘hurtful’ Asian stereotypes in 2003 film
Director Nisha Ganatra said she felt they ‘owed audiences to make it right’ in the new film
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, director Nisha Ganatra, a Canadian whose parents were first generation immigrants from India, said of the 2003 film: “I remember watching it and feeling torn, mostly about the Asian representation … It was something I brought up right away when I had my first meetings with the producers. Ganatra was referring to a pivotal scene in Freaky Friday, in which stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, playing a mother and daughter, read the messages in a pair of magical fortune cookies in a Chinese restaurant which then triggers their body swap. Jacinto added: “Knowing Nisha and speaking to other people within our circles, I knew we had a captain who was very much aware of those archetypes, or those issues presented in the first one.”
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