“It Was the Perfect Time in History for the Movie”: An Oral History of ‘Freaky Friday’

As the cult classic turns 20, director Mark Waters, producer Andrew Gunn and stars Chad Michael Murray, Lucille Soong, Ryan Malgarini, Rosalind Chao and Christina Vidal reflect on the body-swap comedy, which survived a last-minute casting change to become a classic.

Annette Bening and Michelle Trachtenberg were first cast as mother and daughter in the remake of the 1977 film that saw Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster switching bodies on Friday the 13th.

But Trachtenberg couldn’t get out of her commitment to shootProducer Andrew Gunn recalls that Nina Jacobson, then president of Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, happened to seeon TV and suggested her for the updated role of the therapist mom Tess, who gets trapped in the body of her teenage daughter Anna, an aspiring musician, after they each open a magical fortune cookie.

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