Alexa, play Pink Slip’s “Take Me Away” — Chad Michael Murray is making Us swoon once more.
Murray, 43, attended the Los Angeles premiere of Freakier Friday on Tuesday, June 22, channeling early ’00s stylish by rocking a lightweight pink jacket, white T-shirt and black slacks. He saved his fingers in his pockets as he smiled for photgraphers, hitting his signature purple carpet pose.
The One Tree Hill alum additionally introduced his spouse, Sarah Roemer, and their eldest two children, alongside for the massive evening out. Roemer, 40, surprised in a pastel inexperienced floor-length costume, sporting her blonde hair in unfastened waves and accessorizing with a silver clutch. Roemer matched her daughter, who wore an identical inexperienced costume embroidered with yellow and pink flowers, whereas their son opted for an all white go well with and no tie. (Murray and Roemer, who tied the knot in 2014, share three kids whose names they’ve saved non-public.)
Freaky Friday premiered in August 2003 and starred Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as Anna and Tess, a mother-daughter duo whose lives are turned the other way up after they get up in one another’s our bodies. Murray portrayed Anna’s crush Jake, a foul boy who thinks he’s falling for Curtis’ Tess not realizing she’s swapped our bodies together with her daughter. He’s again for the sequel, which hits theaters subsequent month and follows Anna and Tess as they swap our bodies as soon as once more, this time with Anna’s daughter and soon-to-be stepdaughter.
“It was superior. It was only a nostalgic kick,” Murray advised Folks in a December 2024 interview of returning for the venture. “It felt like a highschool reunion, you realize? It felt like no time had handed, and but we had complete lives in between.”
There have been, nevertheless, a couple of challenges alongside the best way whereas filming — significantly when it got here to conserving observe of who was who now that there’s 4 characters swapping our bodies.
“There [were] moments the place I’m sitting there going, ‘OK who’s who?’ … I used to be actually centered,” he advised the outlet. “I needed to do my homework, like, so much, after which I’d nonetheless get it incorrect. But it surely was nice. A lot enjoyable.”
Chad Michael Murray and household Jesse Grant/Getty Pictures for Disney
Murray grew to become a Hollywood heartthrob within the early ‘00s, first making a reputation for himself by visitor starring on WB reveals Dawson’s Creek and Gilmore Ladies earlier than touchdown the lead position of Lucas Scott on One Tree Hill. On the massive display, he additionally starred reverse one other younger starlet — Hilary Duff — in 2004’s A Cinderella Story.
As buzz of an OTH revival grows and with Freakier Friday lastly coming to fruition, Murray — who at the moment stars as Cal on The CW collection Sullivan’s Crossing — thinks he and Duff, 37, might reprise their roles as Sam and Austin, too. (The movie, which additionally starred Jennifer Coolidge and Regina King, was a contemporary tackle the traditional fairy story.)
“I feel the best way that I might do it could be, as love does in highschool, it doesn’t work out. More often than not, they’ve gone separate methods. They’ve had their lives,” Murray advised Parade in a July 19 interview. “Perhaps my character [Austin] could be a trainer at this level, an English trainer again on the faculty, and perhaps Hilary’s character [Sam] received married, had children [and] it didn’t work out. And now her daughter occurs to be in my class, and also you do a twin Cinderella story, the place she’s somewhat shy, and he or she perhaps doesn’t slot in. And [my character] nurtures that. And blah, blah, blah. I feel that will be one thing to inform.”
Freakier Friday hits theaters on Friday, August 8.
