‘Freakier Friday’ Transforms Jamie Lee Curtis right into a Gen Z Vogue Icon With Delightfully Unhinged Costumes

To cite Jamie Lee Curtis in Freaky Friday, a sequel should “make good decisions” to reside as much as the unique. And fortunately, Freakier Friday, the long-anticipated follow-up to the 2003 teen basic, does precisely that.

In maybe the primary film’s most memorable scene, Curtis hops on the again of a bike pushed by Chad Michael Murray (naturally), sporting a spiky new haircut, sporting a cool DVF wrap gown, and throwing off loads of perspective. The scene has all the weather of an on the spot icon: a sizzling man, a contact of youngster insurrection, and a much-needed makeover. True to type, Freakier Friday takes all these beloved tropes and turns them as much as 11.

“I would present visuals, they usually’d at all times be like a ten on the Richter scale,” says Freakier Friday costume designer, Natalie O’Brien, about working with producers on the style course for the movie. The sequel ranges up the body-swapping from a mom daughter swap to a quartet of chaos involving three generations, so why not take the clothes up a notch, too? As such, the costume course is an much more essential marker of who’s who than the unique.

Here is the plot lowdown. (Warning: Spoilers forward.) Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) is now a mother to Harper Coleman (Julia Butters). She will get engaged to Erik Davies (Manny Jacinto), who simply so occurs to be the daddy of Harper’s arch enemy, Lily Davies (Sophia Hammons). Ever the peacekeeper, Anna’s mother, Dr. Tess Coleman (Curtis), makes an attempt to assist her daughter combine her soon-to-be blended household. As a substitute, after a go to with a quintessentially L.A. multi-hyphenate psychic performed by Vanessa Bayer, Tess physique swaps with Lily, and Anna with Harper.

Acquired all that? In case your head is spinning, don’t fret. The costumes will aid you hold issues straight.

“For one thing like this, the place it is a four-swap you do need to put a flag in it and set up a reasonably heavy indented character,” O’Brien explains in regards to the outfits for every of the 4 leads. Plus, the chaos of a inter-generational swap offers ample alternative for laughs: “Something I can do to Jamie Lee to make her really feel uncomfortable and out of her physique is thumbs up,” she provides in regards to the actor’s scenes as a Gen Z fashion plate. “I feel that is the place I needed to go.”

For Lily, the transient was easy: ’90s Rom-com, however make it Gen Z. “She’s just a little posh punk meets Gossip Girl and Clueless,” says O’Brien. The character can also be British, inspiring the costume designer to faucet U.Ok. icons like Vivienne Westwood (Hammons wears one of many label’s plaid skirt’s in an establishing scene) and Doc Martens (painted with a Union Jack, in fact).

However the actual enjoyable begins when Curtis takes over as Lily, sporting a litany of loud, chronically on-line appears and over-the-top equipment. In a single key scene, she dons a denim bustier by Cinq à Sept, styled with Zoomer aptitude, for a wild joyride by way of Los Angeles. “I added all these piercings to it, simply to make it just a little Gaultier, to make it just a little Vivienne Westwood-y,” says the costume designer. Together with a leather-based Max Mara bustier belt and a few new bangs, the look wanted to really feel capital F-Vogue to seem “prefer it got here by way of Lily’s fingers.”

In reality, she and her staff had been always brainstorming on set about how a fashion-obsessed teen would possibly model a lewk, even when trapped within the physique of a 60-something psychiatrist. One such outfit was a customized magenta body-con gown with mesh sleeves: “[Jamie Lee Curtis] put her fingers by way of the finger holes, and she or he was like, ‘Do youngsters actually do that?'” remembers O’Brien. “I am like, ‘They do.’”

This sense of play with trend provides to the hilarity of the premise. Seeing Curtis crash out whereas wearing head-to-toe microtrends is uproarious—and so is watching the fresh-faced Hammons modify her glasses and dole out the recommendation of a wise therapist. “I used to be sort of impressed by the ladies at, like, the Brentwood Nation Mart,” says O’Brien of her muses for Tess. “She should not simply be so buttoned up.” This interprets to multiple “Jenni Kayne second,” comfortable cardigans, and colourful scarves—somewhat than the anticipated suiting—for the character.

Anna, however, is a bit more polished in her grownup period. “I actually needed Anna to nonetheless really feel cool and to really feel like she did not lose her like rocker vibe,” explains the costume designer. “However she’s nonetheless a mother, and she or he’s grown into it. She’s not overdoing it.” On display screen, that appears just like the pink saggy three-piece swimsuit (courtesy of The Frankie Store) and Reformation denims worn by Lohan. Anna’s model is supposed to evoke music icons from previous and current. “I used to be additionally impressed by Charlotte Gainsburg,” O’Brien explains. “Stylish musical icons which can be sort of timeless, and it felt like that sort of encapsulated her.”

Maybe essentially the most heart-warming costume reveal of the movie includes Anna’s wedding dress, a glance O’Brien and Lohan collaborated on. “I bear in mind being within the becoming room along with her,” says the costume designer. “It was a type of Cinderella moments,” she says of when Lohan tried on the Prea James robe that ended up within the movie. “She was like, ‘You already know, I did not actually get to put on a marriage gown as a result of I bought married throughout Covid,’ and she or he felt it.” The thought of including a contemporary flower crown to the look was additionally Lohan’s—it added a little bit of free-spirited edge to her wedding ceremony trend.

Anna’s highly-curated music exec wardrobe would not precisely keep buttoned-up when she physique swaps with Harper, who’s extra of a chill California surfer woman. Objects like a Balenciaga rash gard and a crimson Christopher John Rogers robe anchor Harper-as-Anna, who’s makes an attempt to sabotage her mother’s impending nuptials drive a lot of Freakier Friday‘s plot. On the flip facet, Butters adopts Anna’s penchant for suiting in her portrayal of the character, sporting a lavender L’Academie set with an identical neckpiece for the movie’s denouement throughout a musical perfomance on stage. “If you see [Butters] tearing up it seems prefer it’s Lohan behind the eyes in a method—it is Anna behind the eyes,” says O’Brien.

After all, it would not be a sequel with no few alternative callbacks to the 2003 film. Do not forget that immediately iconic Diane Von Furstenberg gown Curtis wears within the authentic? O’Brien introduced it again.

All through Freakier Friday, it is closely implied that Jake (Chad Michael Murray) nonetheless holds a candle for not Anna, however her mother, Tess, greater than 20 years after she first hopped onto the again of his bike. So, when he introduces the Coleman crew to his new girlfriend within the remaining scene, she’s a doppelganger for Tess—right down to the an identical DVF wrap gown O’Brien’s staff sourced, tailor-made, and tweaked for the movie.

“I bear in mind seeing [the Jamie Lee Curtis body double] on set,” provides O’Brien. “She was strolling previous me, and I needed to double take and be like, Is somebody enjoying a trick? After which I used to be like, Okay, that is her.”