Lindsay Lohan’s Career Takes A Back Seat To Partying
Last night, I caught the last 20 minutes of Just My Luck on cable as I was waiting for American Idol to come on. It was, as they say, time NOT well spent. I have always considered Lindsay a talented actress, but a bit immature and misguided. Well it seems that was a grave miscalculation on my part. She’s a lot immature and terribly misguided.
She is right about one thing though, she should be allowed to blow off steam, go out and dance with her friends. Live it up a bit if she wishes. She’s young and that’s really what youth is for. By the time you are in your 30’s people don’t want to see you out partying every night, and truthfully, your body just doesn’t recover like it used to.
This however doesn’t mean that you can have your cake and eat it too.
Lindsay is living under some kind of delusional misconception that she can be an irresponsible younster and still be taken seriously as an actress. In the last year alone, Lohan has dropped out of four different film projects, and was publicly chided for her unethical behavior on the set of the ONE she did show up for. The latest drama involving Lindsay’s faltering acting career is the Dylan Thomas film (The Best Time Of Our Lives) that she was set to star in with Keira Knightley - certainly a name anyone in the film industry would want the opportunity to star in a film with.
Say what you want about Keira’s eating habits, she is respected for her acting. Let us not forget, Ms. Knightley also stars in the summer’s most anticipated film, Pirates of The Carribean: At World’s End, and who wouldn’t want the opportunity to have their name associated with that kind of starpower?
Apparenlty not Sienna Miller. She cheerfully took Lindsay’s place in the Dylan Thomas film after Lohan backed out at the last minute due to “contract changes.” A brief recap: this is the fourth film Lohan has dropped out of. According to this article, all three of previous bailings were under dubious excuses, ranging from “too busy, recovering from rehab” (Woman Of No Importance with Anette Benning)” “not interested in projects with no big names ” (Bill, directed by two up and coming director Bernie Goldmann and Meliss Wallack)” and she was dropped for a film penned after a Tennesee Williams story, The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond, for as of yet undisclosed reasons.
That should bring us up to speed, with exception of her Georgia Rule fiasco, which we mentioned above, resulted in some severe criticism from the Morgan Creek execs and her fellow cast members. Oh, and of course she took a brief hiatus (to attend rehab) from shooting her film I Know Who Killed Me, surely jeopardizing that film’s budget and staff. And now, The Best Time Of Our Lives (also starring the hot Cillian Murphy) makes it quattro failure.
As I stated earlier, Lohan’s camp used “contract changes” as the excuse for backing out a mere week before production was to begin, yet according to a “not so blind item” on Perez Hilton’s site, it seems that something much for scandalous was the root cause. From the post:
What recently rehabbed hard-pAArtying actress was fired from her latest movie, though she claims she dropped out, because she refused to comply with the producers’ demand of mandatory drug testing????
Hey, I am no Mensa member, but I can figure that one out. How much you wanna bet this story surfaces again but with names being mentioned that rhyme with “Frenzy Blohan.” I’m just pointing out the obvious. If drug testing is truly the reason for Lindsay dropping out, then her being replaced by Sienna Miller is a shocker. In case you didn’t know, Sienna is an admitted drug-dabbler — but she also has reputation for showing up and doing her job.
And of course there’s these recent telling statements from an interview in Nylon. An interview that was set to take place a week earlier in LA where the writer was to meet Lindsay, only to discover the day of the interview that Lindsay was in NY. Why? Because her little brother and sister wanted her to stay. Ahh, the whimsy. Here’s some excerpts:
Lindsay discusses her role as a stripper in I Know Who Killed Me:
“I don’t think that there has been a role for an actress like this movie was for me in so long…At first I was like ‘I can’t do this, I’m getting my leg cut off. I don’t want to look like that in scenes, I want to look decent!’ But that was just just me being young and stupid. And I have my first sex scene in it, which I always said I wouldn’t do…I wanted to this movie so people can see that I’m a f@#%ing actress and I’ve been doing it forever and it’s about time people see that. It felt so good to really act.”
Lindsay on the photogs:
“I get embarrassed about the paparazzi if I’m in a chic restaurant, or when I was in the AA meetings. I felt very disrespectful because those people are doing that for themselves and it’s no one elses’ business. But that was the only time it was embarrassing–other times, I obviously like it I wouldn’t ever want them to not take my picture. I’d be worried. I’d be like, ‘Do people not care about me?’”
When you couple her recent track record with her rambling vignettes of incoherency and manic logorreah, the now infamous interview in Nylon magazine, a central theme keeps blinking in neon lights: “Lindsay Lohan’s Blowing It, Lindsay Lohan’s Blowing It” and by blowing it, I mean B-L-O-W-I-N-G I-T!
Take that anyway you want.
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she’s such a joke.
Comment by blah blah — May 3, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
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Valium.
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