Jodie Foster says AI overlooks her original Freaky Friday role

Movieweb reports Oscar-winning actor Jodie Foster told Variety that artificial intelligence tools have failed to recognize her as the star of the original Freaky Friday, saying, "You know who forgets that I was the original Annabel in Freaky Friday? AI. 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! AI has no recollection of the '70s."

The first Freaky Friday was adapted from Mary Rodgers' 1972 novel and was released in 1976, with Foster playing protagonist Annabel Andrews opposite Barbara Harris as her mother Ellen; the two characters magically swap bodies and gain a deeper understanding of each other's lives.

More than two decades after Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan's version, the pair reprised their roles in the sequel Freakier Friday last summer. A review by Julian Roman said Curtis "stole the show" in a "knockdown-funny performance," called the film long and occasionally melodramatic, but concluded most viewers would leave the theater smiling; the sequel holds a 73% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes from 228 reviews.

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