When Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan’s remake of 1972’s Freaky Friday hit theaters in 2003, Nisha Ganatra was almost 30 years old — a little outside of the teen film’s target demographic. But that didn’t stop her from watching it “ maybe a billion times.”

“Lindsay Lohan was someone we watched growing up all the time. [We] wanted to be [her], thought we were, [and] played very bad music trying to be like her,” she tells Bustle over Zoom, cradling her young daughter in her lap. “It was the first time I saw Jamie in this balls-out comedy, and then I started following her in every comedic thing she did.”

Ganatra’s love of comedy would eventually lead her to direct Mindy Kaling’s 2019 movie Late Night , along with episodes of TV series like And Just Like That... — making her a pe

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