Lindsay Lohan and Chad Michael Murray shared a kiss in Freaky Friday. Did you know that was her first onscreen kiss?
Since it was a stressful situation for the then-teenager, Jamie Lee Curtis, Murray, and the producers had a meeting to make it less stressful for her. So the Hollywood legacy, with three decades of experience at the time, told them to practice their kiss there and get it over with so that it would not be as nerve-racking when the director yelled, “Action.”
However, since she was about 16, she was still nervous to kiss the good-looking 21-year-old.
So, what were they going to do to make her more comfortable? Curtis turned to Murray and asked if he was good. Of course, he said yes. And then she put her lips on where he just said yes.
That broke the ice, and Lohan’s first kiss was not as stressful. And Murray’s dad is still jealous of his son to this day.
You can say that the three had a Freaky Friday moment because Curtis substituted for Lohan, or had Lohan already switched bodies with Curtis so that she could kiss her co-star in both bodies?
Murray learned a very important lesson in that moment. He told the Good Morning America anchors, “It set up me for a lot more comfortability working with her, working with everybody because you realized, ‘We’re just making a movie. Let’s go have some fun. And let’s not be so serious. Let’s have a riot.'”
Curtis hasn’t changed. Murray said that when all the actors went into the table read for Freakier Friday, the Oscar winner came up with a way to make it less confusing because there are four of them switching places in the sequel. What was it? She gave Lohan, Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, and herself hats, so that everyone knew who was who at that moment in the movie. It worked, and it made things a lot less confusing.
Janet Leigh did a great job preparing her daughter for Hollywood and acting, so that she could do the same for the next generations of actors. We need more actors like the late legend and her talented daughter.
One last note, I wouldn’t mind having the One Tree Hill star as my first onscreen kiss! Would you?
