- - Jodie Foster roasts AI for forgetting she starred in the original “Freaky Friday”

Ryan ColemanJanuary 8, 2026 at 11:02 PM

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Jodie Foster in 'Freaky Friday' and in 2025

Jodie Foster remembers her history — which is more than AI can say.

The iconic star of such American classics as Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, and the original Freaky Friday recently revealed she was shocked to learn that popular AI language model ChatGPT doesn't seem to know that it was she who starred in the first iteration of that last franchise.

AI doesn't seem to know that the 1976 original exists at all.

"You know who forgets that I was the original Annabel in Freaky Friday?" Foster shared in a recent interview with Variety. "AI."

The star of the upcoming thriller A Private Life explained that "If you go on to ChatGPT, or any of those things, and you say, like, 'Hey, what are the Freaky Friday movies?' They say there was an original, which is the 'original' with Jamie Lee Curtis, and then there's the second one that just came out. And they don't mention me!"

The entire Freaky Friday cinematic universe owes its existence to a children's book of the same name written by Mary Rodgers and published in 1972. The story followed young Annabel Andrews, who covets the freedom she believes only her mother Ellen possesses. When Ellen accidentally causes them to swap bodies, Annabel gradually comes to understand just how much responsibility adulthood is saddled with, and how comparatively easy she actually has it as a kid.

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Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris in 'Freaky Friday'

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Released in 1976, the first Freaky Friday cast Foster, already a star thanks to roles in the Martin Scorsese films Taxi Driver and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, as Annabel and Barbara Harris as Ellen. The film was a hit, grossing over $25 million ($145 million adjusted for inflation) on a $5 million budget.

But according to AI, it doesn't even exist. "AI has no recollection of the '70s," Foster snarked.

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Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in 'Freaky Friday'

Nearly 30 years after its release, Freaky Friday was remade by Mean Girls director Mark Waters, casting Lindsay Lohan in the role inspired by Foster's, and Jamie Lee Curtis in the role inspired by Harris' character.

Last April, Nisha Ganatra, director of the sequel to that film, Freakier Friday, told Entertainment Weekly that she "begged" Foster to make a cameo in the film. But Foster declined, and Ganatra "never found out why," even though she admitted, "we tried everything."

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