May just Crimson Slip be taking the degree as soon as once more? Previous 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 to find her musically vulnerable persona.
In an unique interview with Us Weekly, the Primo superstar, 42, unfolded concerning the 2003 movie, through which she starred as Maddie, the most productive pal — and Crimson Slip bandmate — of Lindsay Lohan’s persona, Anna. “I’d love to see that character still performing,” Vidal shared. “Maybe she has a cover band, or maybe she had a bunch of kids and they have a band, and they still perform.”
“I’ve thought about this a lot, obviously,” she quipped. “I also thought it would be kind of cool if she had a school for musicians and people who want to learn how to [play], specifically young [people].”
(Even though there's no phrase but on whether or not Vidal and Haley Hudson — who performed Peg — have signed on for the Freaky Friday sequel, the movie’s manufacturer Andrew Gunn lately teased that a script advanced ahead of the creator’s strike used the “music and the band in a great way.”)
Vidal instructed Us she would additionally like to position a circle of relatives spin on a modern day model of Taina, the liked Nickelodeon sequence through which she performed the name persona. “In real life, I have a very talented niece who is beautiful and writes music, sings and plays guitar,” the mother of 2 says. “I thought it would be cool to take that story into Taina, and somehow it becomes about Taina’s niece. She’s 10 times more talented than Taina ever was.”
The only movie Vidal would most probably go on revisiting? Breaking point, launched in 1998: “I’m just not a good skater,” she defined, “and I got a pretty serious injury on that.”
Previous tasks apart, Vidal these days stars on Primo as Drea, a unmarried mom elevating her teenage son, Rafa (Ignacio Diaz-Silverio), along her 5 brothers in San Antonio. The actress instructed Us that the function was once somewhat of a stretch for her — which made it the entire extra fulfilling to inhabit.
“She’s tougher [and] stronger, and she gets it done. Everyone is a little afraid of her,” she defined. “I’m the complete opposite. I just did not come out like that.”
Even though lovers are nonetheless ready to listen to whether or not the Amazon Freevee coming-of-age comedy can be renewed for a 2d season, Vidal already has concepts for Drea’s subsequent bankruptcy. “I want to see more of the individual dynamics between Drea and each of the brothers, and Rafa and each of the uncles,” she shared. “We got a little taste of that in season 1, and I just loved it.”
“I’d also like to see her romance novel get published, and apparently she either did spoken word at a time in her life or [was] rapping,” she added. “Selfishly, I’d like to explore that.”
Primo is streaming now on Amazon Freevee.