Manny Jacinto on Being Lindsay Lohan's Love Interest in 'Freakier Friday': "A Pinch Me Moment" | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Manny Jacinto chats with THR at the 'Freakier Friday' premiere and describes what it being the love interest to Lindsay Lohan in the sequel film, calling it a "pinch me moment." Plus, he describes how he built a father-daughter relationship with his co-star Sophia Hammons.

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00:00So you play Lindsay, her character Anna's fiancé-to-be, in the movie.

00:04What was it like working with her on this?

00:06It was incredible.

00:08It's very much a pinch-me moment.

00:10I was the kid who watched the original Freaky Friday in the theater,

00:15at the mall, with my parents and my sister,

00:18and never would have thought I'd be acting opposite Lindsay.

00:21Getting to watch her in Mean Girls and Freaky Friday,

00:25it's, again, it was never in the cards for me.

00:29But here we are.

00:31So there were a few times where I had to slap myself to keep focused,

00:35but we did our best.

00:37How do you feel like this movie builds on what we saw in the first film?

00:41Oh, I mean, it's such a consistent ode to the women in our lives,

00:47that, man, they know what's up.

00:52Who runs the world? Girls.

00:54Because that's true.

00:56So, yeah, and I think that's a consistent theme throughout both movies,

01:01whether it be single parents or just, yeah, single moms,

01:04because it's a tough gig, but they get it done.

01:08I love that.

01:09And you play a dad in the movie.

01:11So how did you and the actress who plays your daughter,

01:13how did you sort of build that, yeah, she's right here,

01:16that father-daughter relationship?

01:17Ooh, I mean, it's so easy to, like, love and care for Sophia.

01:23Like, it's, if I had a different actor, maybe we'd be speaking differently.

01:29But we also had, like, rehearsal time and time together before the actual filming

01:35to kind of figure things out.

01:37But, again, it's not hard to, like, look out for Sophia

01:42because she's such a lovely human being.

01:45And the original film came out in 2003,

01:47but so many trends from the early 2000s have been coming back.

01:51What's one you think needs to stay in the past?

01:54Ooh, fedoras, I think.

01:57Yeah.

01:58I don't know if that's the right timeline,

02:00but fedoras are, I think that should stay in the past for a little longer.

02:04Yeah, who knows when they'll be back, if they'll be back,

02:07but, man, it's tough rocking a fedora.

02:10If you do, all the power to you, but, yeah.

Manny Jacinto on Being Lindsay Lohan's Love Interest in 'Freakier Friday': "A Pinch Me Moment" | THR Video

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