Jamie Lee Curtis is keeping it real, both on and off screen, when it comes to her longtime friendship with Lindsay Lohan.
The Last Showgirl star recently revealed how she and Lohan have remained close since starring together in Disney’s 2003 hit Freaky Friday, where they played a mother and daughter who magically swapped bodies.
“Lindsay was 15, and as she’s matured,” Curtis, 66, told People. “We’ve stayed in contact our whole lives.”
“I think it’s important, particularly with someone who is young in the movie business, if you connect with them, you have to let them know it’s real. There’s R-E-E-L life, and then there’s R-E-A-L life,” she explained that their connection went beyond the film set and was grounded in honesty and mentorship.
“I wanted her to understand that there was a bridge and that I was real, and that she always could be real with me. And she was,” the True Lies actress added. “Through the course of her young life, we’ve stayed in contact.”
The Mean Girls alum and Curtis now have even more in common, thanks to their shared experience of motherhood , a role that has only strengthened their longtime bond.
The Oscar-winning actress is the mother of daughters Ruby and Annie, whom she shares with her husband, Christopher Guest, while the Irish Wish star recently welcomed her son Luai with her husband, Bader Shammas.
Adding to the excitement, the beloved on-screen duo is reuniting in the upcoming Freaky Friday sequel, Freakier Friday, a much-anticipated follow-up to the original Disney classic.
