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• Kelly Osbourne agreed to play the role of Anna's best friend, but backed out before shooting began.
  
  
• Annette Bening was originally slated to play Tess Coleman. She backed out shortly before filming and was replaced by Jamie Lee Curtis.
  
  
• Producer Andrew Gunn said he initially hoped Jodie Foster (who played the daughter in the original film, Freaky Friday (1976)) would be game to play the mother in the remake. Foster declined, in part because of concerns that the casting stunt would overshadow the movie's overall merit.
  
  

• Tom Selleck was originally slated to appear but dropped out.
  
  
• No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani was offered a role as a member of the band.
  
  
• Marc McClure (who played Boris Harris, the daughter's love interest, in the original film) has a brief cameo as Boris the delivery man.
  
  
• The "S" and "Y" on the Sony television in the teacher's lounge is blacked out, leaving "ON" on the front of the set.
  
  
• The snapshots in the opening credits are actually photos of Jamie Lee Curtis and her daughter Annie Guest.
  
  
• This is the third version of this film made by Disney, the second time in ten years. The original Freaky Friday (1976) starred Jodie Foster as the daughter and Barbara Harris as the mother. Freaky Friday (1995) (TV) was later remade for ABC television with Gaby Hoffmann as the daughter and Shelley Long as the mother.
  
  
• The guitar that Jamie Lee Curtis plays offstage during the show at the House of Blues is an Ernie Ball/MusicMan Steve Lukather (Toto) Signature Model.
  
  
• The fortune cookie says "A journey soon begins, its prize reflected in another's eyes. When what you see is what you lack, then selfless love will change you back."
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Mark Waters] Man holding baby at wedding
  
  
• When Jamie Lee Curtis found out that Lindsay Lohan, who was going to be playing her daughter, had starred in the remake of The Parent Trap (1998) she asked "Which twin did she play?", unaware that Lohan had performed both roles.
  
  
• In the end scene when Anna is dancing with Jake, you can briefly see a woman in the background dancing with an older gentleman, and she looks directly at the camera. This woman is Lindsay Lohan's mother, Dina Lohan.
  
  
• There are various F.o.N. posters in the garage. F.o.N. is the band in which Danny Rubin plays.
  
  
• A member of the band Orgy instructed Jamie Lee Curtis on how to play the guitar. In the concert sequence, that is actually Curtis during the solo.
  
  

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