Jamie Lee Curtis said she’s proud of her former Freaky Friday co-star Lindsay Lohan as she returns to Hollywood with a new Netflix film deal and a Super Bowl commercial. (Photo: Carlo Allegri/Getty Images)
Jamie Lee Curtis praises Lindsay Lohan as her Freaky Friday co-star returns to the spotlight.
Curtis, who played Lohan’s mother in the 2003 film about body swapping, told People magazine about the actress who will next star in a Netflix Christmas movie after leaving Hollywood after a tumultuous decade. The Halloween actress said of Lohan: “She’s a big talent. And she had a lot on her plate at a very young age. She seems to be settling into a really happy family life – she’s engaged.”
In November 2021, Lohan took to Instagram to announce her engagement to her boyfriend of two years, Bader Shammas, captioning the post, “My love. My life. My family. My future.”
Curtis, who, like Lohan, has been open about her struggles with substance abuse, also applauded Lohan for her recent Planet Fitness Super Bowl commercial that mentioned her troubles with the law. In one scene, the Parent Trap star is said to have traded “drunk driving for DIY” by revealing a scene with her dazzling Danny Trejo ankle monitor bracelet.
“We are in contact, and the fact that she can play a little prank on herself [means] we can all play a prank on ourselves, trust me,” the Halloween star continued. “Show business is very difficult and speaking to the tabloid press is very difficult, it’s really brutal. So God bless her.”
In an interview with Yahoo in October 2021, Curtis confirmed that she and Lohan still communicate by text and that they even have a secret code to make sure they’re texting the right person.
“There’s a song called ‘Like I Love You’ by Justin Timberlake,” she explained. “And Lindsey and I shot the scene in the car, and there was a lot of time between takes. this Clipse song. We tried to learn the words with her. And we seemed to be sitting there with a notebook. … We recorded them and then played a scene and then played a song and tried to make lips. -synchronize a few words we knew. I tell you, we laughed. And this is my secret code with her. “What song did we sing along to in the car?”
This isn’t the first time Curtis has defended his former co-star. In 2016, Curtis defended Lohan after degrading comments made by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump resurfaced. Curtis told Entertainment Tonight that Lohan was “grateful” for her on-screen mom to come to her defense, explaining, “How dare anyone, let alone a man in that position, make comments like that when she clearly had difficulties in life. She does a great job of helping children in Syria. She is in Athens now. She is doing very well. I’m sorry we all had to hear it, and again, maybe it was helpful that we all heard it.”