May Pink Slip be taking the stage as soon as once more? Earlier this 12 months, Disney introduced {that a} Freaky Friday sequel is within the works — and Christina Vidal is aware of precisely the place she would need to discover her musically inclined character.
In an unique interview with Us Weekly, the Primo star, 42, opened up in regards to the 2003 movie, wherein she starred as Maddie, the perfect good friend — and Pink Slip bandmate — of Lindsay Lohan’s character, Anna. “I’d like to see that character nonetheless performing,” Vidal shared. “Perhaps she has a canopy band, or possibly she had a bunch of youngsters and so they have a band, and so they nonetheless carry out.”
“I’ve considered this rather a lot, clearly,” she quipped. “I additionally thought it will be sort of cool if she had a college for musicians and individuals who need to learn to [play], particularly younger [people].”
(Although there isn’t any phrase but on whether or not Vidal and Haley Hudson — who performed Peg — have signed on for the Freaky Friday sequel, the movie’s producer Andrew Gunn just lately teased {that a} script developed earlier than the author’s strike used the “music and the band in an effective way.”)
Vidal advised Us she would additionally prefer to put a household spin on a modern-day model of Taina, the beloved Nickelodeon sequence wherein she performed the title character. “In actual life, I’ve a really gifted niece who is gorgeous and writes music, sings and performs guitar,” the mother of two says. “I assumed it will be cool to take that story into Taina, and in some way it turns into about Taina’s niece. She’s 10 occasions extra gifted than Taina ever was.”
The one movie Vidal would seemingly go on revisiting? Brink, launched in 1998: “I’m simply not an excellent skater,” she defined, “and I obtained a reasonably critical damage on that.”
Haley Hudson, Lindsay Lohan and Christina Vidal in “Freaky Friday” Cowl Photos
Previous tasks apart, Vidal at present stars on Primo as Drea, a single mom elevating her teenage son, Rafa (Ignacio Diaz-Silverio), alongside her 5 brothers in San Antonio. The actress advised Us that the function was a little bit of a stretch for her — which made it all of the extra pleasing to inhabit.
“She’s harder [and] stronger, and she or he will get it achieved. Everyone seems to be a little bit afraid of her,” she defined. “I’m the exact opposite. I simply didn’t come out like that.”
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Although followers are nonetheless ready to listen to whether or not the Amazon Freevee coming-of-age comedy might be renewed for a second season, Vidal already has concepts for Drea’s subsequent chapter. “I need to see extra of the person dynamics between Drea and every of the brothers, and Rafa and every of the uncles,” she shared. “We obtained a little bit style of that in season 1, and I simply cherished it.”
“I’d additionally prefer to see her romance novel get printed, and apparently she both did spoken phrase at a time in her life or [was] rapping,” she added. “Selfishly, I’d prefer to discover that.”
Primo is streaming now on Amazon Freevee.
