Mark Waters, who directed the 2003 movie Freaky Friday, says he wanted to be a part of the sequel, Freakier Friday. According to a new interview, the filmmaker expressed his interest in serving as an executive producer or a more tertiary role.

“Yeah, unfortunately, I was not invited to the party,” Waters, 61, told Variety of the sequel in an interview published Friday, Aug. 15. “I did raise my hand and say I’d love to be involved somehow, even in a kind of godfather aspect or executive producer.”

Freaky Friday” director Mark Waters wasn’t asked to be involved in the making of the critical and commercial hit sequel, “Freakier Friday” — despite also helming Lindsay Lohan’s most enduring film yet,