Freakier Friday ending explained: Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis react to emotional Pink Slip pe...

&34;All they need is each other. That's the missing piece they weren't acknowledging the whole time," Lohan tells EW. Freakier Friday ending explained: Lindsay

"All they need is each other. That's the missing piece they weren't acknowledging the whole time," Lohan tells EW.

*Freakier Friday *ending explained: Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis react to emotional Pink Slip performance (exclusive)

"All they need is each other. That's the missing piece they weren't acknowledging the whole time," Lohan tells EW.

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Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis explain 'Freakier Friday' ending. Credit:

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- *Freakier Friday *ends on a nostalgic, emotional note.

- Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis explain the last Pink Slip performance and what it means for Anna Coleman.

- Nisha Ganatra, Julia Butters, and Sophia Hammons also tells EW what the moment meant to them on set.

**Warning: This article contains major spoilers for the *Freakier Friday* ending.****

As she said in 2003's *Freaky Friday,* all Jamie Lee Curtis' Tess Coleman wanted was for her daughter, Anna (Lindsay Lohan), to "make good choices" in life. With Anna's Pink Slip bandmates — and daughter Harper (Julia Butters) — dancing alongside her on stage during the *Freakier Friday* ending, the film's cast and crew tell ** that leaning into the spirit of family was the best choice all along.

Director Nisha Ganatra's sequel to Disney's millennial comedy classic expands upon the themes of "selfless love" among blood, with both chosen and biological family holding equal value for the central characters. The story follows the impending nuptials of Anna and her British restauranteur fiancé, Eric (Manny Jacinto), the latter of whom also has a daughter, the snooty Lily (Sophia Hammons), who, alongside Harper, disdains their new family dynamic and want to thwart their parents' relationship to prevent a planned relocation from Los Angeles to London.

Then, an inept psychic (Vanessa Bayer) meddles in the family affair, with a supernatural shift causing Anna and Tess to swap bodies and souls with Harper and Lily.**

Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in 'Freakier Friday'.

Glen Wilson/Disney

Along the way, Lily-as-Tess and Harper-as-Anna attempt to rekindle Anna's relationship with her former boyfriend, Jake (Chad Michael Murray), whom Harper assumes that one of her mom's unfinished Pink Slip band songs, "Baby," is about. But, Anna had long given up on her dreams of becoming a rock star, sacrificing her creative life to raise Harper with Tess.

Still, the girls go as far as to seduce Jake inside a record store, their budding courtship (or, perhaps, Jake's affinity for Tess that carries over from the first film) prompting him to show up at Anna's rehearsal dinner.

Just before the film's climax, the girls ultimately get their wish, as Eric reconsiders his ties to Anna and her family and decides to break off the engagement. The only problem is, while Lily wanted to press on with the girls' plot, Harper's feelings about Eric had already begun to soften. Particularly, after she (again, as Anna) accompanied him to an immigration meeting at a local government office, where she learned — and accepted — all the things that Eric cherished about her mom.

Not to mention, Harper also begins to learn more about her mother's sacrifices. This comes to a head during a scene that recalls the 2003 film's Pink Slip performance at the Wango Tango competition, where an off-stage Anna-as-Tess plugs in her guitar to help Tess-as-Anna perform with the band on stage.

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With Anna answering an emotional plea for help from one of the artists, Ella (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), she manages at her record label day job, the group makes their way to a concert venue where the pop star is set to perform. Outside the venue, Tess and Lily exchange words and Lily comes to understand that her dad's feelings are vital for the health of their dynamic, too, and convinces him to return to Anna.

Inside the venue, Anna learns that Ella secretly conspired with Pink Slip, and brings them on stage to perform "Baby." Anna then tells Harper that she actually wrote the song about her, not Jake. The pair then makes music together, singing their love into existence while Eric, Tess, and Lily watch from the crowd, cementing their status as a sturdy family that Lily admits she wants to be part of.

"I think it's a moment where their two worlds can exist together. Her mom can still fulfill her dreams, and her daughter can still be part of those dreams, and they can have togethership, because they're one," Lohan exclusively tells EW of the final scene. "She comes from her mom. They can brave any storm. Whatever new is going to change their life, starting this new family, it's possible. All they need is each other. That's the missing piece they weren't acknowledging the whole time."

Curtis said that the final number made her emotional, both when she learned of the way the sequel's ending would unfold, and the tune that would accompany it.

Lindsay Lohan returns as Anna Coleman in 'Freakier Friday'.

Glen Wilson/Disney

"I remember the first time I read when she says the song's not about Jake, and then I heard the song. It's very moving. It's the reason you go to the movies — it's the reason you go to a Disney movie," she explains. "To have a moment where all of a sudden you're going to reach over and hold the hand of the person sitting next to you, if it's your mom, grandma, friend…. You're going to be moved by it."**

Ganatra says that, for "Baby," she contacted songwriter Sarah Aarons, with whom she previously collaborated on the 2020 movie* The High Note*. She also spent time researching emotional musical numbers with producer Andrew Gunn, and they decided that, after "watching a lot of concerts where artists we love were bringing out their kids to play with them," they decided to end the film with Harper on stage with Anna.

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"When Lily has the realization that *this* is her family, that's what breaks it all open," Ganatra says. "It needed that moment of everybody seeing the other one for who they are, and accepting them for who they are. That's when everything comes back together again. It felt like everyone needed that moment of *seeing* the other person."

Sounds like a good choice to us.

*Freakier Friday* is in theaters now.

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