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Freakier Friday Director 'Begged' Jodie Foster for a Nostalgic Cameo in Sequel: 'She's Not Going to Do It'

'Freakier Friday' director Nisha Ganatra 'begged' Jodie Foster, the star of 1976’s ‘Freaky Friday,’ to make a cameo opposite Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, she told Entertainment Weekly in a new interview about the sequel.

Nisha Ganatra directs the upcoming Freakier Friday, which reunites Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis for more body-swapping fun after their 2003 hit The director said the team “begged” Jodie Foster, star of the original 1976 Freaky Friday, to make a cameo Although she “tried everything,” Ganatra was apparently not able to convince Foster Nisha Ganatra, director of the Lindsay Lohan- and Jamie Lee Curtis-led sequel (in theaters Aug. 8), tried to bring in the star of the 1976 body-swapping film that launched the Freaky Friday franchise: Jodie Foster. In a 2002 interview with NPR, Foster reflected on working as a child actor in two very different movies released in 1976: family-friendly Freaky Friday and R-rated Taxi Driver, which earned her an Oscar nomination.

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