Jamie Lee Curtis was a last-minute addition to one of her most beloved films.

“I found out I was going to be in Freaky Friday two days before they started shooting, because someone else was in the movie and dropped out,” the actress, 66, told PEOPLE exclusively at the Amazon Upfront in New York City on May 12.

Cast as Tess Coleman, an overprotective mother and hardworking psychologist who swaps bodies with her teenage daughter, played by Lindsay Lohan, in the 2003 film, Curtis further explained, “I had a 10-year-old and a five-year-old at home, and I found out on that Monday I was going to be doing a movie where I played a 15-year-old and a 45-year-old.”

“I don’t remember any of it because I was now juggling like a circus performer,” continued the star — who shares two daughters with husband Christopher Guest: Ruby and Annie.

“So my memory at the time was to simply be in the moment of the job, and then the movie came out and people loved it,” Curtis added.

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Curtis and Lohan, 38, starred in Freaky Friday as a mother and daughter who switch bodies through the use of Chinese fortune cookies.

Freaky Friday (2003) marked the third film adaptation of the 1972 novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers.

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The first was the 1976 version starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster in the lead roles, and the second was a Wonderful World of Disney exclusive film that featured Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffmann.

The Disney Channel later released another version of the film, which adapted the musical of the same name. It premiered in August 2018 and saw Heidi Blickenstaff and Cozi Zuehlsdorff in the lead roles.

Freakier Friday, a soon-to-be-released sequel to Curtis and Lohan’s popular Disney film, will see the pair reprise their family roles as they swap bodies with two others — 22 years after their first time doing so.

“The story picks up years after Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) endured an identity crisis. Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice,” a synopsis for the project teases.

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Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao are among the returning actors from the 2003 version.

Vanessa Bayer, Julia Butters, Manny Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Sophia Hammons, meanwhile, have joined in new roles, and Lohan’s The Parent Trap costar Elaine Hendrix also makes a cameo.

Freakier Friday is in theaters on Aug. 8.

Brooklyn-based model and entrepreneur Lauren Chan is making waves, as well as being photographed in them.

In a forest green Cult Gaia bikini, hand on hip, knee-deep in Bermuda’s turquoise waters, the 34-year-old made history Tuesday as the first out lesbian to appear solo on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. 

 “I tried to bare my soul — be funny, truthful and vulnerable. I was very proud of that moment,” Chan told Page Six in an exclusive interview.

Chan took a plunge in 2023, announcing her divorce from her husband on Valentine’s Day. Later that year, she came out as gay in a casting tape for SI Swim.

“I decided to write an essay about this whole process [of coming out] hoping people, perhaps, would see themselves in my story. I didn’t have many examples to reference when I was going through it,” Chan told Page Six, of reconciling with her own sexuality, and becoming more comfortable in her own skin.

Her honesty and relatability nabbed her the SI Rookie spot, for the 2023 issue, in which she posed in a yellow bikini on the beach in the Dominican Republic.  

At the time, her career was thriving. She was a successful plus-size model and fashion editor at Glamour magazine, but admitted she was hiding from her true self. 

“Stress and aimlessness drove me to start therapy, where I slowly uncovered my true self,” Chan wrote in her essay of untangling repressed feelings in her adulthood. 

“I knew that staying closeted would only hurt me – and my husband – in the long run, so out I came,” she wrote. 

In 2024, she graced SI Swim again in a shoot in Mexico. That year, she announced her relationship with film director Hayley Kosan – who adorably refers to herself as “Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Husband of the Year 2025” in her Instagram bio. The pair got engaged earlier this year. 

Now, Canada-born Chan has landed the coveted cover — and she’s celebrating every minute of it.

“I am more grounded in who I am and what I believe. The message I want to share is … I am trying to be more imperfect and more honest,” Chan told Page Six. 

Her return to the the glossy wasn’t met with only applause. Chan told The Post she used her 2025 essay for the SI Swim issue to clap back at a hater who tried to belittle her achievement in a negative comment on social media.  

“Who are they even doing this for anymore?? Women??” she recalled the nasty comment saying. 

“The answer, I’m proud to report, is women,” she wrote in the essay, championing history-making women the issue has trumpeted, like Martha Stewart, who in 2023 became the oldest woman to ever appear on the cover of the magazine, at 81. 

“This brand is to inspire women. To be anything and everything that it celebrates,” Chan told The Post.

Chan also gave a shout out to transgender singer Kim Petra’s 2023 SI cover along with NCAA gymnast Olivia Dunne, 22 – the top-earning female college athlete in the country – who also landed her own 2025 cover in an animal print bikini.

Chan broke into the fashion industry on a whim. She grew up playing elite level basketball, going on to play at the University of Western Ontario in Canada in 2008. During that time, her appendix ruptured, sidelining her time on the court. 

“With all that spare time, I started fashion writing; from there, things snowballed. I started to intern in Toronto for a fashion magazine,” Chan recalled. 

After graduating college, Chan moved to New York City, where she signed with Ford modeling agency to begin plus-size modeling. 

“This was before the size-inclusivity movement. Eventually, I decided to start writing about plus-size modeling, which turned into writing about size inclusion and body positivity,” Chan, who has worked with designers like Vera Wang, Valentino and Christian Soriano among others.

“I started making a difference. I found my purpose,” Chan said, of making women who look like her feel seen. 

In the age of Ozempic and similar medications being used as a quick fix for weight loss, Chan says it’s more important than ever that she fosters a safe space for body positivity. 

“There’s certainly been a regression in size inclusion in the past few years,” she acknowledges. 

“It’s important to focus on the outlets and the people and the brands that are standing by their ethos of inclusivity. We still exist – I’m a size 12 to 14 on this cover,” she told Page Six.

She also encouraged people not to fixate on what they see on social media, online and in advertisements and to concentrate on themselves firstly and mostly.

“Everyone’s journey with their body is extremely personal, and I am an advocate for mental health first. Every time I have a thought about not liking my body, I genuinely ask myself, whose idea that is.

“Most of the time, it’s not mine. It’s an idea that I absorbed through thousands of ads I see a day,” Chan said. 

Photos: Tamara Beckwith/NY Post; Stylist: Margot Zamet; Hair: T. Cooper using ECRU New York; Makeup: Markphong Tram using Valentino Beauty; Stylist Assistant: Liz Wentworth; Location: World Spa, 1571 McDonald Ave, Brooklyn NY.

Milo Manheim says it makes so much “sense” that Ariana Grande and Liz Gillies are such good friends after recently getting to know both performers.

Manheim, who stars alongside Gillies in the off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors, spoke to PEOPLE exclusively at the Disney 2025 Upfronts in New York City. During the conversation, the actor explained that he met Grande when she came to the show in order to support Gillies, whom she’s been close to for years.

“They’re both such sweeties,” Manheim, 24, said. “I mean, I’ve spent so much time with Liz and she’s like family now at this point. We’ve been through so much together. I’ve learned so much from her, and the more I get to know her, the more incredible I think she is.”

“Ariana came to see the show,” he added, noting, “It makes such sense that they are friends. They’re both such kind souls, both such theater girlies. Like it was, it was really nice to see Ariana there supporting Liz, and I could see them just being like little girls again enjoying being in the theater.”

Gillies, 31, posted photos from Grande’s April 26 visit to the show, jokingly captioning the post, “THANK YOU FOR COMING TO THE SHOP, MY DINGUS!! 😭♥️🪴.”

Grande, 31, attended Little Shop of Horrors with boyfriend Ethan Slater, and a source told PEOPLE that they arrived about an hour early “and hung out backstage with the cast.”

The source went on to describe the visit as “adorable,” adding, “They were both so friendly and warm with the cast, and so supportive of the production. Ariana gave everyone hugs and brought Liz a potted plant for the women’s dressing room.”

Grande and Gillie met as children starring in the Broadway production of 13. The pair were later cast on the popular Nickelodeon series Victorious, which ran from 2010 to 2013. 

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The show, which followed a group of teens who attend a high school for the performing arts, was Grande’s first television role and served as the launching pad for her music career.

The pair continued to remain close over the years, with Grande tapping the Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll alum to appear in her “Thank U, Next” video in 2019.

“We’re totally close. She’s like blood to me, she’s like my sister,” Gillies previously told PEOPLE of the in 2015. “So unless we have a massive falling out, nothing will be happening there. We lived together, I’ve known her since what feels like the beginning of time.”

Grande shared a heartfelt birthday tribute to Gillies on her Instagram Stories for her 30th birthday in 2023, writing, “Happy birthday to the most beautiful, brilliant, talented, funniest person I’ve ever met in my life @lizgillz,” over a candid selfie of the pair.

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“You have made my heart so unfathomably happy and whole these past 16 years!” she continued. “Absolutely everything and also, absolutely nothing has changed. I love you more than words can possibly express and I hope we can be best friends in every life.”

Little Shop of Horrors is playing at the Westside Theatre in N.Y.C.