Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are set to reprise their Freaky Friday roles more than 20 years after the film's release. Now, they are explaining what had to happen in order for the long-awaited sequel to become a reality.

Curtis and Lohan starred opposite each other in the 2003 film in which they portray a mother and daughter who inadvertently switch bodies, leading to hilarious hijinks and emotional revelations. This August, they will return as Tess and Anna Coleman in Freakier Friday, a movie that will drag Anna's (Lohan) own children into the mystical mix.

Fans of the original film have been asking for a sequel for years, and it's finally happening. But what changed? According to Curtis, it was all about timing; namely waiting for Lohan to get old enough to believably portray a mother of a teenager, per People. The 39-year-old Parent Trap star really did become a mom in 2023, welcoming son Luai with husband Bader Shammas.

"Everybody I'v ever spoken to has asked, 'Will there be a Freaky Friday sequel?'" she said. "When I went all around the world for Halloween Ends in 2022, every stop, they asked. And the answer was 'Lindsay has to be old enough to have had a teenager. So then obviously Lindsay had this beautiful baby. She came and visited me, brought the baby. At this moment we started really seriously talking about it."

In addition to Curtis and Lohan, other Freaky Friday actors are set to reprise their roles in the sequel, including Chad Michael Murray and Lucille Soong.

Freakier Friday hits theaters August 8.

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