Wayward star Lindsay Lohan will be in Interview Magazine for the February issue and some of her long, mostly delusional answers have been leaked as promos.
This one is especially interesting. Count the misconceptions if you can. Instead of commenting all at once, I’ve inserted five points I will cover below the cut:
On the public’s misconception of her: “I wanted to be a movie star [growing up]. But movie stars are not what they used to be (1*). When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don’t think there are too many films coming out these days that we’re going to look at in the future and say, ‘This is one of the great ones.’ Like, what is the great film that I will tell my children about? (2*) I’m still going to tell them about the old films, the Hitchcock films. And people my age don’t even know who those people are. (3*) I can’t even have a conversation with most people of my generation about that, because they’d be like, ‘Okay, she’s a freak. Something’s wrong with her.’(4*) And the worst part is, in terms of what people see of me, I have become this girl who just loves to be photographed, doesn’t know how to focus, doesn’t know how to work on set, just loves the attention, knows how to go out at night, knows how to party.(5*)”
Oh, Lindsay, Lindsay, Lindsay.
*1) Correction: movie stars ARE what they used to be, unless you’re talking about the days of studio movies, where writers weren’t unionized, sound-stages were really the only place you shot and Bogart would swing through your set every few days. This is the hyper-romanticized period, and it did exist, but was sort of dissolved during the auteur period of the 60s and 70s. But you don’t need to really know that, because you’re not taking acting jobs.
*2) Children?!?!? Outside of that puzzled question; are you saying you’re not going ot tell your children about Mean Girls? Because that would be a crime. Against Tina Fey.
*3) You’re 22. If “most” 22 year-olds don’t know who Alfred Hitchcock is, I think you might be hanging out with people who don’t care who Alfred Hitchcock is. If you’re into film (like the readers of this fantastic site) and you don’t know who Hitchcock is at 22, maybe you aren’t really into film. Like you, Lindsay Lohan who sings and produces a line of leggings.
*4) Yes. They call you a freak because you try to talk about Alfred Hitchcock films. Also, and I’m going out on a limb here, because you’re kind of a freak. Not a freak like “arm growing out of your head” freak, but you are a pop culture commodity and the worst thing you can do is complain about it.
*5) Show us something different, and we’ll come back to your “side.” I had a total crush on you and your work for awhile, then you got all coked out, dated Fez from That 70’s Show, lead a high-speed chase through LA and might be a sex addict dating a lesbian DJ. It’s like one day Angelina Jolie is batshit crazy and you’re this up-and-coming red-headed actress and the next day Angie represents the UN and you’re in rehab. See how we lost faith?
