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 Lindsay Lohan
Interview By: Harry Kaplowitz
“You can only act is if you’re in high school for so long, I feel,” says a very comfortable, maturing-by-the-minute Lindsay Lohan. As luck would have it — pun intended — there was a spot waiting for Lohan in director Donald Petrie’s latest romantic comedy, Just My Luck. With the film, the director of such genre favorites as How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Miss Congeniality is taking his lead actress into uncharted territory: being unlucky. The film follows young Manhattan socialite Ashley Albright, considered by her friends to be the luckiest girl on the island. One fateful night, a kiss steals her luck and places it with her partner Jake Hardin, played by Chris Pine. “It kind of was the perfect thing for me because it’s not a dark film, so I can still keep the fan base that I’ve grown with,” Lohan said. “It’s a really lovely film; it’s a romantic comedy, and it’s my first romantic comedy … and I get to kiss Chris in it.” Lohan also stressed the importance of maintaining that fan base throughout her growth as an actress, one she refers to as “a coming-of-age thing” for her. “It’s a great film for me; it still has a good message and I think that’s important. And I still have the young audience to look out for and this is acceptable for the younger audience and for people that are older than me,” she said. “And it was hard for me to find that kind of film, so it was nice that I found it in this.” But it seems the one thing on everyone’s mind isn’t Just My Luck, which opens nationwide Friday. It was her upcoming bevy of independent releases, which starts on June 9 with the release of Robert Altman’s musical comedy A Prairie Home Companion. For Lohan, the choice to sign onto Altman’s ensemble cast wasn’t a difficult one. “Would you turn down a movie that Robert Altman was directing and Meryl Streep was playing your mother in? I wouldn’t recommend it even if you did say yes,” the 19-year-old actress stated simply. Lohan said that the experience of working with a veteran troupe of actors — including Streep, Kevin Kline, John C. Reilly, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, Lily Tomlin and Virginia Madsen — was a humbling experience, to say the least. “I would look at the call sheet, and I would just see these actors that I didn’t believe were coming onto the set everyday,” she said. “It was a wonderful experience and a good experience for me as my first independent film. “And it’s just one of those movies where it’s always going to be nice to have to look back on.” But Lohan says that the film turned out very well, unconventional though it may be. “We don’t really have musicals that are done like this movie, and Robert Altman obviously has a way of kind of incorporating comedy and the darker side in films,” she |
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