The one question that caught Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan completely off guard.

Recently, I witnessed a real-life miracle.

It didn't involve a bearded man creating bread loaves and fish from thin air, or a miraculous recovery from certain death (although that skill would come in handy).

Instead, in this age of sequel fatigue, where beloved films from our childhoods are constantly being dragged back onto the screen and ruining the sanctity of all we hold dear, this miracle lies in Disney's latest offering, Freakier Friday.

For longtime fans of the Freaky universe, this particular sequel doesn't just capture the magic of the original 2003 offering; it also builds on the characters' lives and manages to create a story that stands on its own.

The 2003 movie, which is based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers, centred on the friction between teenager Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) and her mother Tess Coleman, who has a complicated relationship with her daughter as she prepares to remarry after her husband's death three years prior.

A slightly cursed fortune cookie sees the two women swap bodies, where they are forced to live each other's lives until they gain an understanding of the other's true struggles, and everything is wrapped up in a glossy Disney bow.

The beloved comedy also features a catchy earworm tune from Anna's band Pink Slip (originally penned by Aussie band Lash), and a goofy yet charming love interest played by early 2000s It Boy Chad Michael Murray (who is equally goofy and charming in the 2025 sequel).

In this new continuation of the story, Anna is now a single mother who enrages her teenage daughter Harper (Julia Butters) when she falls in love with the father of her high school enemy, Lily (Sophia Hammons).

In the lead-up to Anna and Eric's (Manny Jacinto) wedding, the body swap curse rears its head once again, and this time around, all four leading ladies wake up in a different body.

Listen to the author of this article recap her interview with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan for Freakier Friday.

As we have seen from the slew of sequels hitting our screens of late, capturing that same magic a second time around is often an impossible task. But according to Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, there was one moment on the Freakier Friday set where they knew the movie was really going to work.

"It was the mirror scene, the one with the four of us when we first all swapped bodies. That's when we knew it was going to be what we imagined," Lohan told Mamamia while in Sydney for the film's premiere.

"Anytime you have a Disney body swap storyline, that first swap moment is the moment of truth," Curtis agreed. "You can spend as much time leading up to it and afterwards trying to shape this story, but that moment of truth is really the litmus test for everybody, and we all just felt it. It was also such a funny moment, and while we were filming it we all just started laughing.

"They were throwing lines at us off-screen, as you would have seen in the end credits of the movie, and it just became mayhem. That was only day three of filming, but from that moment, we knew it would work."When Freaky Friday was released, it was only Lohan's second film, her follow-up to the success of The Parent Trap, and she and Curtis grew extremely close while filming the body-swap comedy. Their friendship continued to grow over the next 20 years between Freaky films, and eventually, this prompted Curtis to email Disney herself. In the email, she told them it was time for a sequel, now that Lohan, at 39-years-old, was old enough to play the mother of a teenager.

While the actresses have made plenty of memories together over the years, spent time with each other's families and navigated the complexities of fame together, one moment from the recent Freakier Friday press tour stands out as their new favourite moment together.

"Oh, it's all been such a labour of love," Lohan said of her Freakier Friday memories. "It was about committing to each other and committing to the film and everyone involved in the film.

"There was a moment that really comes to mind," Curtis continued. "At the Los Angeles premiere, we didn't really get to see each other because it was a little frantic. Then we went to Mexico, and there was a great reaction there. But then, when we were in London at the premiere, there was a moment where it was just the two of us standing there on the red carpet. It was a moment right before they shot off these confetti things.

"And (at that) moment, we just looked at each other and there was magic between us. It felt like, 'Wow, we're really here, this is all real', and it was very special."And then the confetti gun things went off, and it got scary," Curtis continued. "But before that happened, it was a wordless moment between just the two of us, just a look in the eye that no one knew about. But now I've shared that moment with you and the world."

Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis on the Freakier Friday press tour. Image: Getty

Part of the actresses' bond has been formed over their shared experiences of motherhood. Curtis shares two daughters, Ruby and Annie, with her screenwriter husband Christopher Guest. While Lohan shares a two-year-old son named Luai, with her husband Bader Shammas.

When talking about the themes of motherhood in Freakier Friday and how they drew on their personal lives to play their characters, Curtis and Lohan shared their proudest moments as mothers.

"As a mother, my proudest moment was actually giving birth to my son and holding him for the first time," Lohan said. "I look back on that feeling, and that moment, and I remember the joy. Everyone says it's a different kind of love that you feel, so I think that is probably the proudest moment of mine as a mother to date, just looking at him and seeing him look back at me.

"Also, seeing my husband hold my son," she continued. "I have the picture of that moment, and whenever I look at it, it brings me right back to that second.

"My proudest moment as a mother is that both of my children wanted to be married in my backyard, and one of them was married by me," Curtis said. "We are a weird blended family through adoption, but it showed the type of family we are because that's home for them, and that was everything to me. That's where they wanted to be while they married their spouses."

At this moment, our interview was drawing to a close, and it was time to ask one final question.

In the lead up to sitting down with Curtis and Lohan, two women whose filmographies have shaped my life since I was a child, I pored through hundreds of past interviews with the actresses, both from the Freaky Friday era and from the many projects they have filmed in the years since. As I revisited their interviews, I took note of the types of questions they leaned forward to answer, or the queries that made them ever so slightly recoil.

This was the last day of the Freakier Friday press tour, where they had flown across the world to many different cities and sat in dozens of rooms while journalists ran in and out, attempting to squeeze as many answers as they could from the talent in their limited time slots.

I could see that, after a 20-year buildup and a packed press schedule, the cycle of questions and answers was beginning to blur, and so I threw in one final question that had the potential to end our interview on a very awkward note if not answered correctly.

'What's the one question they were hoping someone would ask them, but nobody ever did?'

For a moment, both actresses sat in stunned silence before Curtis started slowly shaking her head.

"Wow… wow, wow, wow. I think we'll both start to cry," she finally said.

Picking the question she wanted to answer, Curtis turned to Lohan and put it to her first.

"Do you love it? Do you love what you do?" Curtis asked.

"Yes, I do," Lohan replied after a moment. "There's nothing like that feeling when you get on set, it's kind of an adrenaline rush, and almost like a sense of safety that you feel; it feels like home."

"You know, it all comes from love and the love of creativity, and that's what I'm never asked about," Curtis said, turning back to me.

"I'm 67 years old, and every day I pull up to any work I'm doing, and I can't believe I get to do it. I can't believe I get to do this job, and it has nothing to do with seeing our pictures up on the wall, the fame, and all that.

"I'm talking about the practical, even just coming in here to talk to you today, I love this job.

"So that's what I want to be asked about, and it's not brought up enough, this idea of love and the creative process and the people we get to do it with.

"This is all filled with love."

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Laura Brodnik is Mamamia's Head of Entertainment and host of The Spill podcast. You can follow her on Instagram here for more entertainment news and recommendations.