(From left) Manny Jacinto and Lindsay Lohan. Images: Emma Pilkington Mead via Instagram/@mannyjacinto, Miles Diggs via Instagram/@lindsaylohan Filipino-Canadian actor Manny Jacinto , who rose to international fame after starring in “The Acolyte,” will star as the onscreen husband of Lindsay Lohan in the sequel of the hit 2003 film “Freaky Friday.” Jacinto’s casting was confirmed in an Entertainment Weekly report last August 10, where he will be joining Lohan and her onscreen mother, Jamie Lee Curtis.

“Manny [Jacinto] plays Lindsay’s husband, but that’s as much as we can say...

Manny is lovely, so funny,” Curtis said of Jacinto in the report. Details of Manny’s character and how he was tied into the storyline of Anna Coleman (Lohan) are yet to be announced, as of this writing. Aside from Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Sophia Hammons, and Julia Butters join the film.

Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Rosalind Chao will also reprise their roles in the sequel. Titled “Freakier Friday,” the sequel to the hit 2003 film was revealed at the “D23” Disney Studios presentation earlier this month. The announcement puts an end to the longstanding rumors about the movie getting a sequel.

The movie will reportedly center around a “multigenerational twist,” picking up years after Tess Coleman (Curtis) and her daughter Anna Coleman (Lohan) switched bodies. It will also tell the stor.