Lindsay Lohan on ‘Our Little Secret’ and ‘Freakier Friday’

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the ending of “Our Little Secret,” out now on Netflix.

Kristin Chenoweth had to channel her inner bad girl to play Lindsay Lohan’s judgmental mother-in-law in Netflix’s latest holiday rom-com “Our Little Secret.”

To create the saccharine-sweet, “bless your heart” type of Southern mom, Chenoweth drew from comedians like Teri Garr and Carol Burnett (whom she says is “like my second mom”) and from people-watching in malls and restaurants . She even took a few cues from some of her own relatives—as to which, she quips, “I want to stay in the family, so I’m keeping quiet.”

The film stars Lohan and “Pretty Little Liars” alum Ian Harding as exes who are forced to spend Christmas under the same roof after discovering their current partners are siblings. Harding says the film stands out among other holiday selections because of its unpredictable nature.

“Sometimes you see in Christmas movies … it’s clear from the fifth minute that these people are going to get together,” he says. “I like that in some moments it’s like maybe they’re healing old wounds or they’re kind of coming together, but they could easily be friends by the end of it.”

Fortunately, things work out for the estranged couple, who reunite at the end of the film. “It felt nice because it felt to the characters, it felt right,” Lohan says. They should be together! They just had to go on their own journeys and find themselves in their own ways to realize what was meant. They both had to mature in different ways.”

Audiences are clued into the less mature versions of Lohan and Harding’s characters in the film’s opening, which takes place ten years ago (when they were still a couple). To prepare for the scene, Harding and Lohan blasted their favorite hits from the early 2010s in the car — after Harding realized when it was actually a decade ago.

“Maybe that’s also what happens when you get to the stage you’re in your 30s, like me, where I’m like, ‘Oh, 10 years ago.’ So what music was that?’” says Harding. “And then I realized I’m thinking about 20 years ago. I think I’m a lot younger than I am.”

The film was a blast from the past in more ways than one for Lohan, who is flanked by “Mean Girls” co-star Lacey Chabert and “Freaky Friday” love interest Chad Michael Murray in this year’s Netflix Christmas lineup (Chabert leads “Hot Frosty” ” , while Murray stars in “The Merry Gentlemen”).

Lohan says she can’t wait for fans to see Murray in “Freakier Friday,” which hits theaters in August. “It’s exciting. Chad comes full force into the movie like Jake does in ‘Freakier Friday’ on the motorcycle. It’s just a really fun movie. I feel like people are going to laugh a lot. Along with a lot of heart , there are other stories to tell. I’m really excited to share it with everyone.”

Lohan adds that she and Jamie Lee Curtis have had “such a blast” sharing the screen again — but that’s not always a good thing, she says with a laugh. “We have problems working together. We’re just talking all the time. Talking and yapping constantly. There’s music in the car and she’s playing Chappell Roan. They’re like, ‘We’re trying to shoot here!’