| By Fred Topel
In Theaters May 12
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The freakiest thing about all the Lindsay Lohan tabloid reports is not the behavior or lifestyle it suggests. It’s that she always appears blonde in the paparazzi snapshots. Fans will be happy to see Lohan back to her redhead self in Just My Luck, as she currently sports in real life.
“I promised a bunch of people from Fox when I went in for the
meeting that for the publicity for the film I would go back to red,” she admitted. “I’m going to be red for the next film. My mom is so happy that I’m red. It’s her baby red head.”
Don’t get too comfortable though, because Lohan has no attachment to hair color. “I don’t care at this point. I’m comfortable in my own skin. I’ll go back to dark soon. I don’t want to wear wigs because then you don’t feel like you’re the person you’re portraying.”
The red head siren stands out in Just My Luck against her blonde and brunette costars Samaire Armstrong and Bree Turner respectively. The trio bonded as well in real life as they do on screen.
“They were there when I got my first tattoo,” Lohan revealed. “I got ‘La Bella Vita.’ It's on my lower back, which is really mean. It's for my grandfather. It means ‘the beautiful life.’”
Otherwise, the trio bonded by writing music together and shopping online at Urbanoutfitters.com. “It was fun because we decorated the trailers. It was like a sorority.”
Close friends are important to Lohan in real life, as one even tagged along to her press conference. “My friend's here, the one that I live with. Jessie. She was there when we were filming. Where are you without friends? I'm a girl's girl.”
Just My Luck tells the story of Ashley Albright (Lohan) and Jake Hardin (Chris Pine). She is the luckiest young professional you’ve ever seen, with even the weather changing to suit her needs. He is the opposite. Jake can’t even pick up found money without finding it smeared with dog crap.
In the film, a kiss causes Ashley and Jake to switch luck. In a desperate attempt to regain her charmed life, Ashley goes around kissing all 20 hired dancers at the party where she met Jake, thinking he was one of them. Lohan had her choice of actors for the montage of 20 kisses.
“We looked at pictures. One looked like Jack Berger from Sex &
the City, so we liked that. It was uncomfortable because we were shooting in Central Park, and there were all these people lined up. And all these kids started kind of accumulating around where we were shooting. I'm standing there jogging next to this guy, and all of a sudden you see me sort of attack the guy and kiss him. I felt so
uncomfortable. I actually got to the point where I was, ‘Can I kiss
him on his cheek and make it look like I'm kissing him [on the mouth]?’”
Still, she toughed it out with a real smooch. “I wanted the realism in the scene to show through that I kissed him to get my luck back.”
The film also reveals that Lohan wears the same dress size as Sarah Jessica Parker. In one of her lucky moments, Ashley cannot find a thing to wear, when suddenly Parker’s dress is delivered to her by mistake. This conceit is actually true.
“Actually, I can because I used her tailor once. We were shooting the movie Just My Luck when I used her tailor for something, so yeah, I can.”
In real life, Lohan has eclectic fashion taste. Sporting Chanel on the press circuit, it is only one of her favorites. “I’m thinking collections because I’ve just been doing all like fashion shoots. Yves St. Laurent’s collection this season I really like. I like Chanel. These are the typical ones. Tsumori Chisato.”
Luckily, Lohan has her pick of these expensive designers. “Oh my God, if you saw my closet, I never need to shop again. I like to collect a lot. I collect pieces. I really like fashion. I collect Hermes Bangles. I’ve got like a stack of them.”
Most of the wardrobe in Just My Luck gets destroyed. It’s either torn in a pratfall or stained by wet paint or mud. That’s okay, because Lohan does not care to keep her movie clothes. “After you wear it, day in and day out, you don't really want to keep it.”
After Just My Luck, you’ll see Lindsay in A Prairie Home Companion, which begins a streak of low-budget, independently made, very adult roles for Lohan.
“I think it’s just those are the projects that have caught my eye and
they’re different. The characters are all so different than anything I’ve done but I’m growing up. In Georgia Rule, I play this girl who was molested by her stepfather. And Garry Marshall’s doing it and it’s a dark comedy. I feel like people will always be judgmental but
all of them have an arc and it’s nice to play different people and
kind of go into more mature rolls as I grow.”
The initial decision to make Prairie Home was not to break out of the teen typecast. “Would you turn down a movie that Robert Altman was directing and Meryl Streep was playing your mother in? I wouldn't recommend it if you wouldn't say yes."
Her off screen relationship with Street became less maternal as the two became colleagues. “Everyone really got close with each other and it was like a big family which is really amazing. Meryl was getting ready to do Devil Wears Prada after that so she was like, ‘I don't know anything about fashion.’ And then I asked her to do W after that.”
Just My Luck opens May 12, A Prairie Home Companion on June 9. |
