Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Chad Michael Murray “didn’t understand any of the real weight” of Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan’s feud when he took the former to the Freaky Friday premiere.
The actresses were infamously locked in a feud in the early 2000s, and 44-year-old Chad – who played the pair’s love interests in the 2003 Disney family-comedy film and 2004’s A Cinderella Story, respectively – thought taking Hilary, 38, to his first movie opening would be plain sailing.
He told Parade: “I didn’t understand any of the real weight of what was going on. I don’t remember the timeline of when I learned about A, B, C, and D, but I loved hanging with Hil.
“We were spending time together, but I remember everybody saying, ‘Hey guys, we need you to spend more time together.’ We had a big kissing scene, we had the big dance scene, so there were a ton of nerves, and we wanted to be comfortable.
“So I was like, ‘Well, let’s go to the premiere. Come on, we’ll hang out!'”
Chad – who portrayed Jake Austin in Freaky Friday – realised his mistake just as he and Hilary entered Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre for Freaky Friday’s screening.
He laughed: “I found out right before we went inside that [bringing Hilary] was not the greatest idea. But when you’re 19, you have no foresight. I didn’t think anything through.”
Chad – who played Austin Ames in A Cinderella Story – added: “But everybody’s lovely, I loved them, and I think they have squashed all that junk.”
Hilary – who thinks the feud stemmed from their overlapping relationships with the late singer-and-rapper Aaron Carter – and Lindsay, 39, resolved their differences over a drink in a nightclub several years ago.
In February, Hilary admitted she “intentionally” gatecrashed the Freaky Friday premiere.
On an episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, host Alex Cooper, 31, asked Hilary if she “intentionally” crashed the premiere, to which the star replied: “I think absolutely yes. I was a teenager…
“But also, Chad Michael Murray invited me. Why would he…I don’t want to start any more stuff, but he was like, ‘You should come with me.’
“And I was like, ‘Mhm. Probably I should.’ I mean, what was I, like 16? No, I was younger than that.”
And Hilary admitted she was not surprised when Lindsay rocked up to the premiere of her own film, Cheaper by the Dozen, later that year.
She laughed: “I mean, that was, like, my childhood feud, like my childhood nemesis.
“I’m sure my publicist will be like, what the f*** are you doing? But now it’s so many years later. Like, who cares? It does not matter.”
