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Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis join Condé Nast Traveler to test their movie location knowledge. The ‘Freakier Friday’ stars try to guess where their most iconic movies and shows were shot–from the high school drama of ‘Mean Girls’ to the multiverse of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’
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00:00Come on.
00:00Is that shrimp?
00:01If this is Condé Ness Traveler, you can do f***ing better.
00:04I think they're trying to make it hard for you to figure out.
00:07Well, this is not the kitchen.
00:10Is it the table?
00:10Not Donna's kitchen.
00:11No.
00:12There's a car.
00:13Oh, wait!
00:13It's when you drove the car through, isn't it?
00:14That is the car moment!
00:16See, I'm not even on the show.
00:18No, and you probably watched it.
00:20Hi, I'm Lindsay Lohan.
00:21I'm Jamie Lee Curtis.
00:23We've both filmed in a lot of amazing locations.
00:25So let's see if we can remember where.
00:30Oh, I completely know where this is.
00:35This is at a laundromat.
00:37This is everything, everywhere, all at once.
00:39We're in a laundromat deep in the valley, city of Los Angeles.
00:43It's actually probably Van Nuys or even farther.
00:47Oh, wow.
00:47I mean, it's way the f*** out there.
00:49What did my silly husband say to you?
00:54He told me about your situation.
00:56It's a legitimate laundromat in the middle of the valley, and it was at night, obviously.
01:03And, you know, this movie was made in Simi Valley, California, and then in the valley.
01:08It was all shot in Los Angeles.
01:09That's nice, though, because you're home.
01:11I mean, the thing that really got me about The Laundromat is it was when I actually understood
01:16what the movie was about.
01:18Because the truth is, I didn't understand what this movie was about at all.
01:21And there was no need for me to, because I understood what my job was.
01:24Like, I understood her.
01:25Who you were.
01:26And that's my only job.
01:28And then I watched Ki Kwan and Michelle Yeoh do their sort of reunification scene at
01:34The Laundromat, and it was before we shot this scene outside, and so I was there on set.
01:39And I was watching the monitors, and at one point, when they had this beautiful, emotional
01:45bonding, I literally looked to the Daniels and I went, oh, the movie's about love.
01:54It's about love.
01:58Oh, wow, because I didn't really know that.
02:12So that reminds me of it.
02:15And also that punk sweater that she was wearing that says punk on the back just kills me.
02:20Okay, so.
02:23Memory Lane.
02:25Yes, I know.
02:26The Parent Trap.
02:27Yes.
02:27Do you remember where?
02:29Yeah, we shot this in Lake Arrowhead, California.
02:31Crestline.
02:32Peter, do you by any chance know how to play poker?
02:35Yeah, never played it before.
02:37We were in Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear a lot for Camp Walden scenes, and it was so fun
02:42for me because it was like a real-life summer camp.
02:44There were just kids running around everywhere.
02:46My brother was there.
02:47He was like riding his dirt bike.
02:49And it was just such a blast.
02:51I remember I had to get taken away for schooling, and I really hated that part of it.
02:55Well, of course.
02:56But just great memories.
02:58I remember when I was taking fencing lessons, and we had the fencing scene right up to the
03:02right.
03:09Sweet.
03:09Sweet.
03:10You know, I watched that movie.
03:13I still don't understand.
03:15How old were you?
03:1610?
03:16Oh, yeah.
03:2511.
03:26I don't understand.
03:27I really don't.
03:28I don't understand how you were that facile and that able to flip-flop.
03:35I mean, it's just an extraordinary...
03:38It's so sweet.
03:39It's extraordinary to have that complexity.
03:41It was so exciting for me at the time to do that.
03:44I think the hardest parts that we chose was timing because it was the wig and the short
03:48hair, and then I wanted her to have nail polish.
03:51And Hallie had to have blue hard candy nail polish.
03:54And then Annie didn't have it, so the switching was really fun for Nancy Meyers to deal with.
03:59I was going to say, it's really fun as a concept until you have to take it off and put it on,
04:03take it off, put it on.
04:04And we did that in Freak Your Friday with the switch with Harper, where I have the decals
04:08on my nails.
04:09And as shooting went on, I'm like, why did I do this?
04:12Why did I come up with this idea again?
04:14Yes.
04:14But it's worth it.
04:16It's really a very impressive performance from a really young person.
04:21I actually, if I had to pick any characters that I could say, like, I missed playing those
04:26like roles, it would be Hallie and Annie.
04:29Oh, this is hard.
04:31Dude, what is that?
04:32Oh.
04:34Wow.
04:35The bear.
04:36Is that the bear?
04:37Yeah.
04:38How is that the bear?
04:39I mean, I can see lobster.
04:40How would you know that's the bear?
04:41I see fish.
04:42Come on.
04:42Is that shrimp?
04:43If this is Condé Nast Traveler, you can do a fucking better food picture for the bear
04:50than an out-of-focus shellfish.
04:51I think they're trying to make it hard for you to figure out.
04:54Well, I mean, I don't, what, is that meat or is that polenta?
04:59No, that looks like shrimp.
05:01And I was never in the bear where they fed, except in my kitchen.
05:06This is not the kitchen.
05:08Is it the table?
05:09No, it is.
05:11There's a car.
05:11Oh, wait.
05:12It's when you drove the car through, isn't it?
05:13That is the car moment.
05:14See, I'm not even on the show.
05:17Oh, yes.
05:18That, you know, it just was a little bit of a surreal photograph.
05:21Now I understand.
05:23It is the moment.
05:24I think it's very artsy and nice, actually.
05:25It is a beautiful photograph.
05:26And it is the moment when, you know, Donna drives the car through the wall.
05:31As one does.
05:33When you're maybe inebriated and angry.
05:39Yes, this was in Illinois.
05:44This is in Chicago.
05:45In Evanston, actually.
05:47Now, what did you do?
05:50Open the door.
05:51Open the door, ma.
05:53One of the great experiences of my life.
05:56All of it.
05:57And then, when that goes off, I need to take the Branzino out.
06:00And don't forget, just stir the gravy.
06:02Oh, my God.
06:03Why?
06:03Why?
06:04What do we got gravy?
06:04Because nobody eats this shit.
06:06If you had shown me a picture of Donna's kitchen, I would have known exactly where it was.
06:11Just a splattered timer with some gravy on it, I would have been.
06:17Look, I almost called it tomato sauce.
06:19But it's not tomato sauce.
06:20It's called gravy.
06:21I know that now.
06:23Where are we?
06:24Oh, okay, because the car.
06:26At first, I was looking at that from afar, and I was like, is this machete?
06:29But no, it's Mean Girls.
06:31It is Mean Girls.
06:33Are we in the United States?
06:35No, we shot this in Canada.
06:37Mm-hmm.
06:37In Toronto and outside of Toronto.
06:40I forget exactly what area.
06:46Wow, your house is really nice.
06:49I know, right?
06:50I loved filming there in Toronto.
06:52It was really nice.
06:53It was nice to be like out of the States to film something like that.
06:56But you were talking earlier today with the girls about Mean Girls, about the age disparity
07:02of all the girls.
07:04Yeah.
07:04Yeah, it was funny because we were all...
07:06Rachel McAdams was so much older than me, so we had such a big gap.
07:10So we didn't all get to hang out all the time.
07:13Get in, loser.
07:14We're going shopping.
07:16Regina's like the Barbie doll I never had.
07:18I'd never seen anybody so glamorous.
07:22I remember I was rhinestoning phones for everyone as gifts.
07:26I would take everyone's like T-Mobile sidekicks and like rhinestone their phones or Verizon
07:30or whatever they had.
07:32And I would rhinestone their phones.
07:34Wow.
07:34But we had a lot of fun this day.
07:36This is the scene with Amy Poehler when she's like, I'm a cool mom.
07:39There are no rules in this house.
07:41I'm not like a regular mom.
07:42I'm a cool mom.
07:44Right, Regina?
07:45Please stop talking.
07:46We were all at the Sutton Place.
07:48We all stayed there and we had like...
07:50I was like, everyone, let's do Thanksgiving together.
07:53But it was nice.
07:54It was nice because it became like a family.
07:56And when you're young and on set, you need to be able to talk to other people your age.
08:00You feel lucky when you have that on film and you're young.
08:04Oh, please.
08:06So, oh, gee.
08:07Obviously, it's Halloween.
08:09This is South Pasadena.
08:10You can just tell because it looks so eerie.
08:12Well, then it's 1978.
08:14And here's the thing that most people don't understand.
08:16So this was what, in fact, the house looked like.
08:20So when you see the movie and it's all those years later and Lori's walking up the street
08:26and she's putting the key under the mat and the little boy's like, don't go in that house.
08:30It's a scary house.
08:33I never to go out there.
08:36Lonnie Edelson, that's a haunted house.
08:38He said awful stuff happened there once.
08:40Lonnie Lamb probably won't get out of the sixth grade.
08:42But in the movie, at the beginning of the movie, the house looks like a fully fancy house.
08:50What we did is the whole crew, the last day of the movie, spent the day whitewashing this house,
08:57hanging curtains, hanging wallpaper in only the rooms that they were going to need to see in that opening sequence.
09:03And then we shot the opening sequence of the movie that night, the last night of the movie.
09:09I remember, literally, we were painting the house and hanging curtains.
09:14That's such a nice moment, like a memory.
09:15It was like total crew, grouped together.
09:18It was cool.
09:25Please.
09:27Oh, this is Freakier Friday.
09:29Yes, it is.
09:31Where are we?
09:32We are in Hollywood.
09:34Yes, we are.
09:35We were near Wilcox, right?
09:37Yeah, at that great record shop.
09:39Which was such a cute record shop.
09:41Yeah, super cute.
09:42That day was the day where you got a nomination for the bear and we did the cake for you.
09:47Yes, it was.
09:48It was a very special day that day.
09:49It was a special day and you were very sweet.
09:51I surprised you with a little cake and speech.
09:53It was a beautiful speech.
09:55Okay, I'll let you know when it's time for you to make your sexy grand entrance.
09:58Sexy grand entrance.
10:02Oh, like that.
10:04But this day was so funny when we were peeling out in the car because you were so excited to do the peel out.
10:09I know.
10:09I like to drive.
10:11And she was ripping it.
10:13I like to rip it a bit.
10:14Come here, get with me.
10:18I love driving!
10:19And what most people don't know, but when they see Freakier Friday is we also shot Freaky Friday in Los Angeles.
10:26Yeah.
10:27And it was really important.
10:28And we worked really hard, both of us, to lobby Disney to get us to be able to shoot in Los Angeles because it's as much a love letter of Los Angeles.
10:37And, you know, sadly, of course, a lot of the locations in Freakier Friday burned in the Palisades fire and in the Altadena fire.
10:49The pickleball tournament.
10:50Yeah, I heard about that.
10:51The pickleball center there burned.
10:54And the house.
10:55And it's going to take, you know, decades to ever look like that again.
11:00It was so green and beautiful.
11:01So it's very important for me to be able to shoot in Los Angeles and for you.
11:07Yeah.
11:08Geek.
11:10Why eek?
11:11Because for a second I didn't know what it was.
11:12But now I do.
11:13It's very hard this one.
11:14I believe it's from Trading Places.
11:16Is that Grand Central Station?
11:17Is it in Philly or New York?
11:19Philly.
11:20It's in Philly.
11:21So I didn't remember where we shot that.
11:23But this is the scene in Trading Places where I believe she kisses him goodbye and he's about to go toward the end of the movie.
11:32You know, I was young and this was a bit of a blur.
11:39It's kind of the way the girls.
11:40Yeah.
11:40You're just going with the flow.
11:42I agree with that completely.
11:43Like if I think about films that I did when I was 21, which maybe I'll see something.
11:47But I don't have that many distinct memories from a lot of them.
11:51I remember that building.
11:53I remember the scene.
11:54Dan Aykroyd can kiss is all I can say out loud.
11:58That man knows how to kiss.
12:01He's a soul man.
12:15You know, the truth of the matter is, I think Ophelia is a straight character in that movie.
12:20I think for the most part, I'm the straight person.
12:24I mean, even in A Fish Called Wanda, I'm not.
12:26You don't go to me for the funny.
12:28You go to the comedians for, no, I'm being honest.
12:30I'm not the one who's going to deliver that.
12:32So I don't look at that movie as something where I'm funny.
12:37I think True Lies was probably the first time I ever actually understood.
12:42Started to feel it too more.
12:43Characters could have physical comedy aspects that then could develop.
12:48And you'll see that in that.
12:50And so I think I had more confidence then.
12:52And so by Freaky Friday, I felt emboldened to sort of go for it a bit.
12:58We seem to be inside each other.
13:00I'm old.
13:01I beg your pardon.
13:03Oh, I'm like the crypt keeper.
13:06Okay, that's enough.
13:07Oh, Irish Wish.
13:16The Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.
13:18We didn't actually film on the Cliffs of Moher.
13:21It was green screened.
13:22But everyone really believed it.
13:24That's green screen?
13:26Yeah.
13:27Wow.
13:27Oh, no.
13:27They did exterior shots of the Cliffs of Moher.
13:29I see.
13:29But when there's the white of us there, it wasn't real.
13:32This is the Cliffs of Moher.
13:34You know it.
13:36I've heard about it.
13:38Oh, interesting.
13:39I love Ireland.
13:40Yeah.
13:40I mean, I'm half Irish, half Italian.
13:42But I loved Ireland.
13:44It was so magical.
13:45And when they say four seasons in one day, that place has four seasons in one day.
13:48Yeah, far up.
13:49Which is...
13:50Same with Chicago, by the way.
13:51People are so nice.
13:52Same with Chicago.
13:53Yeah.
13:54Beautiful.
13:55The food.
13:55I love it there.
13:56We lived in a place called Dalkey, which was just beautiful.
13:59Just like this really lovely town.
14:01And we'll walk down, go get food.
14:03Super simple.
14:03It's just such a nice life there.
14:05And then jumping in the cold water.
14:07And it was just a really great experience.
14:09I want to go back.
14:10I want to take my son to Ireland.
14:11Yeah, of course.
14:13What a fun trip that would be.
14:18This is Georgia Rule.
14:20We shot it in Monrovia, not Idaho.
14:23Monrovia.
14:24California.
14:26You should probably hire her to be a travel consultant.
14:30One of my, like, side things that I just do as a mom and a wife is I love booking trips
14:35and picking places.
14:36And I have a very good memory.
14:37Yeah, yeah.
14:37I love planning trips.
14:39Yeah.
14:40It's like one of my favorite things.
14:41What do you love about it?
14:42I just love the result of, like, how when I've picked a place to stay and we get there and
14:48everything is, everything just is pretty, like, moves seamlessly.
14:52Like, how everyone feels after it.
14:54Wow.
14:55Like, the experience and the moments that we've shared in that place.
14:57So you love travel.
14:58Yeah, I love it.
14:59And I'm lucky because my husband loves travel, too.
15:02But at the same time, I'm a homebody.
15:04Like, when I'm home, I don't love to always leave the house.
15:06Like, I like to be home.
15:08That's, like, the cancer sign in me.
15:10Do scorpions like to stay safe and comfortable or do they just sting people?
15:13I think they just sting people.
15:15Okay, great.
15:15Because I love that about you.
15:18I am not a traveler.
15:19I travel for work and I am, like, a student.
15:22You travel quite a bit.
15:23I travel a lot, but I don't travel for pleasure.
15:26I'm not a pleasure seeker.
15:27No, I think it's important to when you're not.
15:29I love you.
15:30I travel for work and I find the pleasure in the travel for work.
15:33And my secret of travel is that I am an autodidact.
15:39I went to school, but I didn't learn anything.
15:41And so I inculcate sort of the culture of where I'm going wherever I travel.
15:47So, like, we're going to Australia.
15:50So I'm reading Thorn Birds.
15:52I feel like I am learning about the place I live in.
15:54You feel very immersed in the place that you go before you get there.
15:56So that's how I have to travel.
15:57I have to...
15:58Me, I'm like, I want to find all the, like, foodie restaurants.
16:01Of course you do.
16:02I'm like, where's the food?
16:03Lindsay, if you had to plan a trip for Jamie that you would enjoy, what would you plan
16:07it?
16:08I think I would take you to Dubai.
16:11Well, I would love to go to Dubai with you.
16:13Yeah, I'd bring you to Dubai because it feels like a different world there to me because
16:17there's so much chaos in America.
16:18It feels very safe there.
16:20But aside from that, it'd be nice to take you to a different culture and show you just
16:25the kind of food and the lifestyle and the people and the friendliness and kind of just
16:30take you to the desert and show you how beautiful it is and just see a different side of things.
16:34Oh, now I put lip gloss on your knuckle.
16:38It's okay.
16:39It's usually in my hair.
16:42I kissed her hair one time, one time wearing lipstick and it may have left a lip print on
16:50her blonde hairs.
16:52It was actually a very cool image though.
16:54It was with blonde hair with like a salmon colored lip print and now I will never be
17:00able to live it down.
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