Now is a great time to be a millennial.
The Backstreet Boys are pop-locking their way through a residency at the Las Vegas Sphere, and a sequel to 2003’s “Freaky Friday” arrives in theaters Aug. 8. But if you’ve been wistfully looking to the past, singing “I Want It That Way,” Chad Michael Murray, who’s back in the motorcycle saddle as Jake in “Freakier Friday,” cautions turning back the clock isn't always easy.
Jake makes his movie entrance on his bike. He removes his helmet and runs his fingers through his blond locks, a scene filmed at the end of a 12-hour day, the actor says.
“We had a microcosm of a moment to get the sunlight before the sun went down, and we couldn't shoot that moment,” says Murray, 43. But when trying to nail that seductive hands-through-the-hair shot with a day’s worth of product on his head, “it's not as smooth as you'd like it to be. So it took some finessing, some 'zhuzhing' as the team was calling it, to get there. Oof, it wasn't as easy as it looks.”
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