BURR: We all the time knew Pink Slip needed to play a task [in the new movie]. To begin with, we cherished Pink Slip. I’ve labored on a number of motion pictures in my profession, and plenty of motion pictures with music, and plenty of musicals, and it’s uncommon that you could nonetheless bear in mind each phrase to each track from Pink Slip – nicely, you recognize, [their] two songs, now two and a half, possibly three, if we rely [new track] “Child.” We knew that Pink Slip needed to come again.
There was a time the place we mentioned that Lindsay was nonetheless a part of Pink Slip. Music was such an enormous a part of [Anna’s] life within the first film that it will appear disingenuous — or, to be trustworthy, unhappy — if she didn’t have music nonetheless in her life.
LOHAN: I feel this time it got here just a little bit simpler — as a result of it was a reunion for us first, after which it was like, “OK, let’s do it.” It felt prefer it was simply yesterday. It felt very snug.
HALEY HUDSON (Peg): It did!
VIDAL: It’s nearly like no time handed. After we first noticed one another, it was simply form of like, “I really feel like we simply did this” — it was undoubtedly not simply, however like that. There’s a pure chemistry too with us, performing and simply being pals. We all the time bought alongside on set. So it was similar to [Lindsay] mentioned: It was simply already there.
BURR: Clearly we wished to carry again Haley and Christina, as a result of they had been such massive elements of the primary movie and had actual roles within the first movie, so it turned a dialogue later, after we had been going to carry Pink Slip again for actual: Can we get the opposite forged?
There was a second, as a result of MUNA performs an element in our film — they play Ella’s band [the gen Z pop star portrayed by Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in Freakier Friday]– however MUNA had launched a single of “Take Me Away,” the place they wearing Pink Slip costumes and carried out it, and it went viral. And all of us cherished it, so we wished to make them a part of it. So there was a second we had been like, “Ought to they be a part of Pink Slip now?” After which I feel for nostalgia functions, and since it felt like, “No, we must always have all of Pink Slip” … and so we discovered [drummer Ethan, played by Chris Carlberg, and bassist Scott, played by Danny Rubin] and reached out to them, and each the fellows had been excited to and accessible to return. So we made it work.
SHINN: We made some demos, made some mock-ups, after which it was like, “OK, Lindsay’s coming in, Julia Butters [Anna’s daughter Harper], Christina, Haley are coming in [to record].” And similar to, making an attempt to honor Pink Slip and what it was 22 years in the past, the ladies within the storage band. And like, the place are they now? The place are they 20 years later? How has their sound modified? How have their influences modified? After which I bought to be in Ella’s band too. It’s simply so many cool goals and actually particular moments. It felt like rock and roll. It felt just like the spirit of Freaky Friday was in Freakier Friday.
VIDAL: I feel we really did discuss, like, “Are we nonetheless cool?” I actually felt that means! I simply really feel like Lindsay and Haley are simply effortlessly cool, truthfully. Like, you guys simply are — whereas I felt like I had to determine the best way to be. Like, I’m in a gown all day with a prime bun. How do I get into this? Am I gonna seem like an outdated woman? However like Lindsay mentioned, the fanbase is so…
LOHAN: Loyal.
VIDAL: Loyal! It’s simply, it’s so in-built. And I used to be stunned that there have been some 13-, 14-, 15-year-olds that had been like, “We’re so excited to see you within the new film!” I’m like, “Me? I’m so outdated! You’re excited to see me?” So I feel the band itself simply has its personal factor that caught.
HUDSON: Completely. And numerous bands had been impressed by Pink Slip as nicely, like MUNA.
VIDAL: Yeah! That was so cool to see the covers.
SHINN: I imply, they’re such professionals. I really feel like they had been all rehearsing with Amir [Derakh], guitar coaching, doing voice classes with Fiora [Cutler]. After which it got here, I feel, very naturally. They know these songs. They know these songs actually, very well. After which, premiere week, we bought the total band collectively and rehearsed at [Burbank, California, rehearsal space] CenterStaging, and went loopy, like 10 hours a day of rehearsal, after which performed reveals. And everybody was so pure. It was like — I simply joined, in a means — but it surely felt like we’ve been doing it endlessly, you recognize? They usually’re like sisters. It’s a very enjoyable dynamic.
BURR: We shot [the final Pink Slip concert scene] at The Wiltern [in Los Angeles]. We had been there for 4 days, and I’ve by no means had extra folks ask to go to set than on these days. Everyone wished to see Pink Slip. It was kind of once I knew it was going to work on some stage, once I was taking a look at a sea of millennial pals all in tears as we watched. And by the best way, I used to be crying too. It was so nice. Everybody regarded nice, everybody sounded nice. It was similar to a pinnacle of all of the issues we’d been speaking about. And the tip of the film needed to really feel like this massive scene, and it was. We had been hoping that it was going to work emotionally but it surely was additionally going to really feel massive due to the music, and I feel it completed each. However I imply, once I regarded round, there was not a dry eye in the home, and it was tears of pleasure. I knew we had one thing.