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Freakier Friday director Nisha Ganatra addresses 'hurtful' Asian representation in bodyswap classic

Freakier Friday director Nisha Ganatra addresses 'hurtful' Asian representation in the first film

'Freakier Friday' director Nisha Ganatra felt "torn about the Asian representation" in the first film.

The 50-year-old moviemaker is at the helm of the sequel to the 2003 Disney comedy - which saw Chinese restaurant owners casting a body swap spell on feuding mother and daughter Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) via pair of fortune cookies - and brought up the "problematic" issue with producers as soon as she signed on to the project.

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